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Collaborative Web Resource: Individual Memo Guidelines
After you’ve completed the collaborative Web resource project, you will write a short reflection about what this experience taught you about collaborative writing on the Web.
Specifics
You will write a short reflection of one or two double-spaced pages where you:
- Describe your role in the project and the work you completed.
- Describe and reflect on what you learned about collaboration, community, and writing for the Web from this project and from the course in general.
The memo is due as an e-mailed attachment to the instructor by December 11.
Grading Criteria
The instructor will grade the memo based on the quality of your descriptions, the quality of your reflections, and your use of English. You can earn a total of 50 points for this.
Collaborative Web Resource: Proposal Guidelines
Specifics
Your proposal should:
- Describe the purpose of the site.
- Describe sites that are similar to yours (in purpose or in content) and how your site will be distinct from them.
- Describe the primary and secondary audiences for the site: include demographic details, their reasons for visiting the site, why they would be repeat visitors to the site and how you will keep their interest.
- Describe the possible content that your site will contain: include the categories that you will use for organization/navigation and a list of topics that the site will cover.
- Describe how people will collaborate to create the site, how the site will foster community (online or offline), and how some of the possible problems which arise with collaborative and community writing will be dealt with.
- Describe your timeline for creating the site, and your plan for site maintenance.
Formatting
Your proposal should:
- Be between two and four pages (single-spaced) using a 10 or 12 point font.
- At the top of the first page, list everyone’s names and the title Proposal for Site Title.
- Use headings to make distinctions between sections.
- Attribute any words, ideas, or information that you get from other sources by using in-text references.
- Be clear, concise, precise, and use conventions for standard written English.
- Be e-mailed to the instructor as an attached Microsoft Word Document.
Grading Criteria
The proposal will be graded on:
- The quality of your descriptions of purpose and similar sites. (15 points)
- The audience description and analysis. (15 points)
- The description of content and your timeline for creating the site. (15 points)
- The clarity and precision of your language use. (5 points)
Your group can earn a total of 50 points for this project.
Due Date
Final version due at the end of class on November 20th.
Collaborative Web Resource: Final Topic Vote
The top three choices:
- A resource for our local community with the Things to do in this area. I hear a lot of people always talk that there is nothing to do around this area, but I think there is always something to do. The primary audience would be locals to the Niagara/ Buffalo Region, or just people who live here. We could create a resource site that lists ‘Things to Do in the Buffalo/ Niagara Region’” (five votes)
- A place on the schools web page where students can go to find all of the different activities, clubs, organizations in one place. there is a similar site however its never updated, it doesnt give any information. (three votes)
- A site where students and parents can go to find information of all the local places to go…restaurants, hotels, activities, driving directions, anything and everything to make the new students transition easier. this would also be helpful for visiting parents and friends. (3 votes)
Another proposal: A combination of —A resource for our local community with the Things to do in this area. I hear a lot of people always talk that there is nothing to do around this area, but I think there is always something to do. The primary audience would be locals to the Niagara/ Buffalo Region, or just people who live here. We could create a resource site that lists “Things to Do in the Buffalo/ Niagara Region” — and —A site where students and parents can go to find information of all the local places to go…restaurants, hotels, activities, driving directions, anything and everything to make the new students transition easier. this would also be helpful for visiting parents and friends. — (i think these could be combined to be the same informative website)
So what do you want to do?
Collaborative Web Resource: Initial Guidelines
Note: These guidelines will become more specific after you choose a topic and a platform as a class, so that you can have appropriate goals and tasks to be graded on.
As we’ve discussed in class, there are many reasons why people build collaborative Web resources. As a class, you will design and build one of your own.
To complete the assignment, you (and the entire class) will:
- Decide on a topic for a Web resource site. You will suggest and vote on topics, and the instructor will choose the topic that gets the most votes.
- Write a proposal which describes the context, the proposed content and design for the site. Each member of the class will write a different part of the proposal, and you’ll edit it collectively.
- Build a Web resource site using a content management system that allows for collaborative writing and editing such as a Wiki. You will help to:
- develop an information architecture.
- create an overall design for the site.
- research, develop and edit content.
- generate guidelines for site management and community participation.
- create the site using content management software.
- Reflect individually in an email to the instructor about what this experience taught you about collaborative writing on the Web.
The assignment will be graded on:
- Your group proposal and how well it describes your site. (50 points)
- The site development process and final product, including:
- How well you develop a usable and accessible design for the site, including navigation and categorization.
- How well you research, develop, edit, and format content for the needs of your audience.
- How well you create a site which takes advantage of the features of collaborative Web writing software and media and which demonstrates an understanding of how collaborative Web writing works.
- How well you develop ways to collaborate and create guidelines for site management and participation.
- How well you contribute equitably to the project (based on instructor observation and group member evaluations).
- How well you pay attention to conventions for Web writing and standard English usage. (250 points)
- How well you describe and reflect upon your contributions to the project at the end of the course. (50 points)
You can earn a maximum of 350 points for this assignment.