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Advanced seminar in child-centered Issues

Modified Assignment:

With our presentation session being canceled, we are moving the presentations and our feedback on them online (with Jen and John's approval, of course)! We'll be using Wiki spaces, a free website that allows all of us to post our presentations to an easy-to-edit web page.

The other thing that makes Wiki spaces useful for this is that we can comment on each others' presentations, thereby substituting for the discussion and feedback that we would normally provide each other in person.

The nuts & bolts of how to sign up for Wiki spaces and how to post to it are listed below. Also, to make things easier for all of us, let's do one more thing to keep the discussions flowing: 1) at the end of each presentation, please prepare a discussion question to get the comments and conversation going. 2) let's all aim to provide at least one or two responses to these discussion questions from each of us after each presentation.


 * How to sign up and post:**
 * You should get an email invite from Beth to invite you into the class wiki space, follow the links and sign up for an account. You will need to create a screen name, it is good to try to use a variation of your name so that we know who is saying what on the site.
 * When your group is ready to upload your presentation you should go to the wiki space
 * On the left hand side of the page is a list of choices select New Page, this will bring you to a new site and you will need to decide the name of your new site, choose a name, you do not have to type anything in the tags space, then hit the create button at the bottom of the page.
 * Once you hit the create page the site will bring you to your blank page. Anything you type into the page will be what you are saying, if you are happy with what you type you just need to click the save button at the top right of the page.
 * In order to upload your presentation you will need to use one of the buttons at the top of the page. Click the file button at the top.
 * Upload the file in the window that pops up
 * To get the discussion going for your page you need to view any page on our wiki space while not in edit mode. The top of the page has some tabs. Click the one that says Discussion.
 * From that page click the button called New Post
 * A window will pop up where you can type your group names and your discussion question, we can then all respond to your question.
 * In order to reply to a discussion thread you just need to click on the discussion question you would like to reply to, a window will pop up that you can put your reply in.