T Nov 30 -- Collaborative Webpage due.

Your webpage should contain active links to each of the project pages: at a minimum, it should contain the authors names and the titles of their projects.

What is the assignment?

For this assignment, you will work together during class time with a group of 2-4 other students to collaboratively create a webpage that will serve as a gateway to your individual project hypertexts.

How does this assignment differ from our research hypertext assignment?

As opposed to your hypertext assigment, for which you will produce a researched argument, this webpage will serve as an introduction to your group's individual sites; for this reason, you will make careful decisions about style, arrangement and delivery to best represent the focus contained by your projects.

 

In addition, by working together as a group, you will learn to draw on each other's strengths and expertise to achieve a common goal.

How can we most effectively work together as a group?

Your first goal as collaborators will be to arrive at a title for your group that reflects the unifying theme, issue, or approach of your topics.

 

Once you have decided upon that, you can begin the work of identifying the features you want your gateway page to contain (i.e. graphics? abstracts? links to the authors? navbar? a general introductory paragraph? etc.).

 

Assign roles in your group to help prevent an unequal distribution of workload so that everyone contributes equally and in a manner that emphasizes their strengths. For instance, consider assigning those students with the most experience in web-authoring to work on design and having those students with the strongest writing style to work on an abstract or introduction to the site.

Where can we find models of other collaborative webpages?

A logical place for you to look for models for this assignment is the Winter 2004 E-Rhetorics Project Page; you'll see as you examine the different groups' gateway pages the way decisions about content, layout, design, tone, and style can produce radically different introductory pages. You may also want to look at the collaborative pages produced by CS201 in Winter 2001.

E-mail me, IM me, or talk to me in class if you have any questions about this assignment.