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Tuesday,
March 8: Group Webpage & group report due - post
link up in your Group forum space. |
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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. Your group report should be between approximately
1 page long. Please provide a link to your group page &
to your group report through your Forum group folder; in addition,
one member of the group should include a copy of your collaborate
website and related images on the final CD that s/he hands in on
the last day of class. |
For
this assignment, students
will contribute materials, both individually and collaboratively, to
the creation of a class website that provides a gateway into their individual
research hypertexts. In addition, students will write and turn in a
brief report on the rhetorical decisions and the process behind drafting
the page.
| How
does this assignment differ from our research hypertext assignment? |
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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.
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| 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.
You
will have a space on Forum just for your group. That should be
the place that you collect materials, archive drafts, and provide
links to active sites.
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| Where
can we find models of other collaborative webpages? |
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logical place for you to look for models for this assignment
is the Winter
2004 E-Rhetorics Project Page and the Fall
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.
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| What
is this "final report" that we're supposed to write? |
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As the final stage
in producing a group webpage, your group needs to turn in a report
of about 1 page in length. This report may be written by a single
member of the group, but it needs to be read and approved by the
entire group. It should describe three primary elements:
- The roles
that each group member played in creating the page
- The rhetorical
and design decisions behind the page
- The process
of creating it (highs and lows, successes and failures, struggles
and triumphs)
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| Where
can I find extra help on this? |
| Feel
free to e-mail me, IM me,
or talk to me in class if you have any questions about this assignment
or the project as a whole. |
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