Feedback on class

In case you didn’t get to put in your two cents today, I’m looking for feedback and ideas for future offerings….please reply with links to applications, games, websites, whatev.

Oh, and I found this book, which I thought looked perfect (but we all know I like books too easily… crazy faculty with her “reading” and old fashioned “books”! 
http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470227443,descCd-tableOfContents.html

Clue game from class

Class period on Friday, April 25th.  Congrats to the class for “solving the crime.”  Hope you had as much fun as I hoped:

posted here for the HON 392 Web Revolutions class:  Today is “Show and Tell” Day, but it’s my turn again…Today is the “Day of Silence” for support for the GLBTQ community and allies.
With that in mind, and to allow for full participation of all our class members, we are going to try an experiment.  MY SHOW N TELL IS THIS EXPERIMENT.  From this moment on, there will be silence in the room  (*with the exception of any guests, and of course, you don’t have to ask to go to the bathroom; you’re grown-ups now!)
We are testing an experiment: can this group, an established working group, one with previous relationships between its members, collaborate completely on-line (or virtually) to come up with the “answer” to a given problem? There is ONE BEST answer to this project, unlike the “real world” in business, in journalism, or even in medicine or aviation.  I do not have a prediction or hypothesis either way, if the class will achieve its goal.  But it will be interesting to observe the process, and I will be walking around the building to see your progress.  Here are the rules:
1.  No face-to-face communication of any kind-talking, passing paper notes, sign language, charades, wipe board, etc.
2.  There is one best solution; your goal as a team is to find that solution.
3.  Each person is to participate fully, and each person will be given critical information that must be shared to find/derive the best answer.  You cannot show anyone the contents of your envelope, although you are free to communicate what the contents are.
4.  The game is based on a version of the (once) popular Board Game clue (the original).  The group must determine who committed the crime, with what weapon, and where.  Also one of your classmates is the victim: who was murdered?  Hint if s/he is dead, s/he won’t be able to communicate.
5.  You are allowed to leave the room at any point, but there can never be more than four people in any room in this building (or any other) at any time between the start of the game and the end time…
6.  THE END TIME.  We meet back in this classroom (4B) at exactly 11:35am to debrief and process how the team worked.
7.  If you have questions at any point before 11:35am, you may text me at 701-739-XXXX and I will answer text messages only (again, with the exception of the guests-and don’t get them to ask on your behalf).  If you do not wish to speak in class after 11:35am, you may text me a message that I can read to the group on your behalf.
Let the game begin!  No cheating. 

Pick an app, any app, and rate it for class on 4/9/08

http://www.opensocialdirectory.org/wiki/List_of_Applications

Pick one and be prepared to discuss it in class on 4/9/08.  :)KMP

Is this the 2.0 Decade?

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/04/02/mclemee

The 2.0 Decade?

By Scott McLemee

Last week Intellectual Affairs discussed the effects of an irresistible force on an immovable object. The force in question is our habit of referring to each recent decade as if it had a distinct quality or even personality: the ’50s as an era of straightlaced conformity, for example, or the ’70s as (in Tom Wolfe’s phrase) “the Me Decade.” This tendency has dubious effects. It flattens the complexity of historical reality into clichés. It manifests a sort of condescension to yesteryear, even. But decade-speak is a basic element in ordinary conversation — and the habit is so well-established as to seem, again, irresistible.

Article on “Myth of 2.0 Democracy”

This is the required reading for class on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 for class discussion

http://www.slate.com/id/2184487

The Wisdom of the Chaperones
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy.It’s getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater. The user-generated and -edited online encyclopedia—which doesn’t even require contributors to register—somehow holds its own against the Encyclopedia Britannica in accuracy, a Nature study concluded, and has many times more entries. But even though people are catching up to the idea that Wikipedia is a force for good, there are still huge misconceptions about what makes the encyclopedia tick. While Wikipedia does show the creative potential of online communities, it’s a mistake to assume the site owes its success to the wisdom of the online crowd.

Ajax and RSS

Read and discuss during class:

http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

Final Project Claims (Eureka!)

A: Angela-Valley Elder Care Nursing Home
B: Erica- St. Michael’s
C: Isaac-4Fourteen
D: Travis-Empire Arts Theatre
E: Katie-Center for Inquiry
F: Brittny- GF Humane Society (Circle of Friends)
G: Jacob- BSA (Boy Scouts)
H: Matia- Relay for Life
I: Rick- CVIC
J: Cory-
K: Scott-
L: Steph- Leo Lions Club
M: Martin-CISV USA
N: Nicole-
O: Mike-Thread Shed 2
P: Ryan

No class on Friday (1/25) so you must…

Reply to this thread with a CRITICAL THINKING RESPONSE to the first chapters of our Blog! book.  To earn credit for participation on that no-class day, I expect a thoughtful on-line, blogged discussion of what we’ve covered so far, posted sometime between now and Friday at 5pm.  How can businesses capitalize on blogging?  What about the legal issues with employee blogging?  What are the risks to candidates in politics or corporations in starting a blog?  What are the benefits?  Is blogging all hype?  Or a truly new media that, like newspapers and television news, deserves careful study and protections for those who post?  And let’s hear it: