ENGLISH 307 wiki / iWeb

With others in your group, find 3 examples online of productions that represent the full range of quality in the medium (make sure these are permanently and publicly accessible): these creations should show the full spectrum of what's possible, ranging from what you'd deem excellence (with all the appropriate bells and whistles that function to enhance the users' experience/understanding) to shoddy or poor work (that perhaps use bells and whistles simply for the sake of using them or, on the other hand, don't really maximize the medium's potential for enhancing the user's experience/understanding of the message).

Discuss with your group what makes these examples excellent, satisfactory, and poor.

Once you've agreed, copy links onto this wiki page, and briefly describe just beneath the link your rationale for your assessment of each.

Excellent

Pats Town Website

all of Pat's editing done in plum

Maddies editing done in pink

Dave's'll be in green

Pats Town Website

http://www.norwichnewyork.net/

Discuss: I like this website the best out of all the ones I have visited. It has a nostalic yet current feeling/effect. I think it achieves this with the photos moving from the past to the present. It is clean, with information in tabs.

http://www.deruyternygov.us/ This is a really nice website with cool and informative features. I will use this one as a model.

The school website

http://www.cortland.edu/

Its easy to navigate and not too hard on the eyes to boot.

http://www.cityofbinghamton.com/

I like the way this page is organized and links are easily accessible.

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Rationale (for selection as excellent -- in re: other candidates for this category and examples in other two):

Satisfactory

Dave's town website

http://www.bayportlife.com/

Discuss: Its not bad but it seems a little bland, I think a better website should look a bit more artfully done, no?

http://www.bubsmx.com/

This is my 17yr old little brothers website, hence why its satisfactory. The arrangement works well, but its not that interesting to look at and some of the links do not work.

http://www.cortland.org/

This is Cortlands' very own official website. while very informative about current events, it isn't very appealing. Only one small tab about the history of Cortland.

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Rationale (for selection as excellent -- in re: other candidates for this category and examples in other two):

Poor

http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/

Bad website: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1594/

Discuss: This website was designed to give all the bad examples that poor websites consist of. The "worlds worst website" informs those who are creating webpages what NOT to include on their page.

http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/

This is a fake website, obviously why its bad.

Just look at the site and you'll understand why its bad...

http://townofcazenovia.org/content This site was not visually appealing at all and it had just page of events. Very boring! The town also has a website done by the Chamber of Commerce, this is very appealing and informative but it had a members only section which I feel is uninviting to someone just wanting to know more about the town.

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Rationale (for selection as excellent -- in re: other candidates for this category and examples in other two):

List Characteristics of Exemplar

Using the above example of excellence as your model, list the characteristics of a quality production in this genre/medium on the respective page of this wiki (click on the "Sidebar" link above);

Characteristics of Excellent Websites

Interesting and inviting. Full of current information for towns people and anyone interested in visiting or moving to the area.
Collaborative site for all townspeople wishing to advertise or inform the public. This should be done in a clear, easy to use format
Along with current events, historic information should be well provided.
Photos shared by community members.
The site is updated

[just continue to hit return after each entry above and you will continue to generate more numbers for each new line in your list].

When you are through, share this list with me to get approval before moving ahead to the next step.

SAVE FOR IN CLASS ON 4/7

Create a Rubric

Based on this work, create a rubric for all work in the medium at rubistar and save this rubric with a password and login that you note here:

Group login:

Group password:

Link to rubric:

Updated to a working one (4/21) - Rubric

I like how you included interest as a grading factor - some websites might be visually fantastic, but might not be interesting. Very thorough - I might be intimidated if I was making a site and this was my rubric! But thatts not a bad thing - it is very concise. -Garrett G

After class, you will share this rubric with classmates working with other media to make sure that the work/expectations are equitable across media. Classmembers not working in this medium must note their approval or suggest changes by making comments by the beginning of class on 4/7.

Revise Rubric

Taking into account my and other classmembers' comments, work with members of your medium group to revise the rubric. The revised and final rubric must be completed by class time on 4/14 (after which I will check and assess it).

Website Projects

List the name of your project and project team members's names and contact info here. Add lines to the table if necessary.

Name your project as follows: Your Project Name (medium). For example, NCLB in CNY (iMovie) or Cortland's Homeless (podcast).

Project Name	Team Member	e-mail address	Phone Number
Cancer Awareness	Maddie Foltyn	Foltyn94@cortland.edu
Cancer Awareness	Dave Mindich	Mindich58@cortland.edu
town website	Pat Plummer	PPlummer@ovcs.org
ELA and Technology	Bryan Welsh	progress_007@hotmail.com

Links to Projects

Dave And Maddie's Proposal:proposal.doc

project proposal.rtf

project proposal.rtf Pat's proposal

Get out of the edit mode on this page by clicking on "Save" below. (As you work on this section, I recommend either printing this page out OR using two computers OR shuttling between two browser windows on the same computer: use one to make changes on, while reading these directions from the other).

Create a New Page

First, click on the "New Page" button on the top of this page.
The dialogue box will ask you for some information. Name the new page as follows: Your Project Name (medium). For example, NCLB in CNY (iMovie) or Cortland's Homeless (podcast).
When you click "OK," you will move directly into your Project Wiki Page.
Immediately hit "Save" and return to this page.

Create a Link to your New Page in the "SidebBar"

Staying in the "read" (not "edit") mode, activate "SideBar" in the box in the upper right-hand corner of this page.
Click on "edit."
Once you are in edit mode, add your "Project Name" to the list just as you titled your Project WIki Page. For example, NCLB in CNY (iMovie) or Cortland's Homeless (podcast).
Then highlight this text and click the "link" icon on the toolbar.
Link type: Wiki page
Link to wiki page: select your Project Wiki Page from the pulldown menu.
Click "ok."
Now this link will connect you to your groups page whenever you select it from the sidebar.

Creating a link from this page

Highlight the first mention of your project in the above table above.
Make it into a link following steps 4-7 in "Create a Link to your New Page" above.

Contents of Project Wiki Page

Copy EVERYTHING on this page from "Production Schedule" to the bottom of this page (below) and paste it onto your Project Wiki Page.

Complete these tasks in this order (to be completed by 4/7):

Customize the schedule for your group.
Pre-fill the "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms with individual's names and tasks, based on your group's Production Schedule.

Otherwise, this page is the space and creation of you and your group member's. Use it to collaborate asynchronously. But note that if you want to have a virtual meeting, you can insert a plugin from the toolbar above to engage in synchronous chat.

Production Schedule

Working with others on your project team (most likely a subset of the "medium group," if there are several different projects being created in this medium"), you will create a Production Schedule for your project.

Steps:

Find at least one internet source that discusses production in the medium (e.g., "blog production," or "web production"). Post the link
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/site/webdes1.htm This is more informative in what should be available on a website, not exactly how to technically build one. Building one is so easy that I thought the content should be considered, this link provides that.
Using the information from this source, along with the criteria from your rubric, create a list (on your wiki page) of everything you will have to do in order to achieve an "A" on the project. See "To Do List" below.
Agree upon what a midterm "draft" of the project will be (ie., what the project will look like when it is halfway finished) and get my approval on this. If you are working with any form of digital storytelling (video production or podcasting), plan to be finished with shooting and/or recording by this date (i.e., by midterm, you should have all the raw footage of your piece completed and have only editing and post-production left to do).
Plan to have that "draft" completed by the beginning of class on April 21. This week you will also plan to meet with the technology trainer to follow up on the project, anticipate next steps, and possibly revise your plans. Add this meeting (and scheduling it) to your "To Do" list.
Assign tasks to particular people in the group in order to meet that April 21 deadline, using the "Person Responsible" line, as shown in the Production Schedule below. Make sure that the workload is evenly distributed amongst all group members. Assign these tasks using the "Production Schedule" below.
Using your list from #2, figure out what tasks remain after April 21 to complete the project at the "A" level by May 5. Assign tasks to individuals, using the same principles you used for #5. (If you are doing a video or a podcast, you will publish your piece to the appropriate web community ON MAY 5 -- or as shortly thereafter as possible --, but ALL production will be complete by this date.
Revise your Project Proposal accordingly and plan to submit a final version of it on the wiki, along with your group's Production Schedule (see below for where you should attach the revised proposal -- use the "Attach File" icon on the toolbar above to upload the document).

TO DO LIST (See #2 above)

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MIDTERM DRAFT

(See #3 above)

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

M March 31 (PREPRODUCTION)

To do: Schedule group a) training and b) a "midterm"/follow-up meeting with Tera Doty-Blance (type dates of meetings below).

Person responsible: ____Pat is meeting with Tera 4/15/08_____________________

M April 7 (PREPRODUCTION/PRODUCTION)

Deadline: Project Proposal, Rubric, Production Schedule, and pre-filled Peer Evaluation forms

collaborative+work(2).rtf Pat's self-eval

M April 14 (PRODUCTION)

Deadline: Have met with trainer

M April 21 (PRODUCTION/POSTPRODUCTION)

Deadline: Draft of Project due

M April 28 (POSTPRODUCTION)

M May 5 (PUBLISH)

Deadline: Final draft due

Revised Project Proposal Attached Here

Weekly Peer Reflection

Pre-fill "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms

Once you are finished with the Production Schedule, copy and paste from it in order to pre-fill the weekly "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms and attach the completed, pre-filled form beneath the appropriate date below.

Pre-fill it by following these directions:

Open this form Eval Form
Type your group's name in "Group" blank on the first line
Type "4/7/08" in the "Date of Meeting/Assessment" blank
Type the names of individual group members and the tasks assigned to them to be completed by April 7 on the appropriate blanks on the form (cut and paste from the Production Schedule)
Save this form and attach it in the blank beneath April 7 below, so that individual group members can individually dowload and complete the form before class on April 7
Repeat steps 1-5 for April 14-May 5

Be sure to divide this inputting among group members so that the work is equitably divided amongst group members. DUE: April 7

WEEKLY: Complete the "Confidential Peer Evaluation" forms

Each week, each group member will download one copy of that week's form, evaluate each group member's performance (including him or herself) BEFORE class begins, and submit the confidential form to me at the beginning of class. Forms not completed before class will not be accepted, and the indivdiual will receive "0" points for that week's assessment.

If individual tasks have changed since the form was first pre-filled, be sure to note these changes on the wiki no later than Monday at 8am for that day's evaluation.