I.
A list of the seminar groups
II.
Information about the response paper peer review groups
III.
Infomation about student digital photos
I.
Seminar Groups
Jules' seminar:
Christopher
A., Daniel C., Dennis F., Bronyn H., Ben J.,
Susanne L., Sean L., Pat L., Joshua M., Dorjee M., Deborah
M., Robert P., Elicia R., Renata R., Nicholas
R., Rebekah S., Trisha S., Rachael S., Laura S.,
Ross T., Vanessa V.
Jose's seminar:
Abe B., Aloka D., Jesse F., Auli'i G., Martha
H., Forest H., Christopher H., Nathaniel H., Rita M.,
Apryl N., Rebecca O., Justin P., Tony P., Christine
S., Sam S., Justin S., Hillary T., Josh T.,
Thane T., Natassia W., Tim W..
II.
Peer Review Groups
The Peer Review
Groups change every two weeks (one for weeks 2 and 3, another for weeks
4 and 5, another for weeks 6 and 7, and the last one for weeks 8 and 9).
The membership of each group is listed in four tables that correspond to
these two-week periods. Click here
to see them.
As
you know, in your response papers you are to underline your thesis statement.
In Web Crossing, you can't underline the same way you do in Word or Word
Perfert or Works or whatever word processing software you are using.
The textbox in Web Crossing is HTML sensitive, so to underline you use
a very simple HTML tag: <u> where
you want the underlining to begin, and </u>
where the underlining to end. For example:
If you want to
underline the first sentence in the sample paragraph below, you use the
HTML tag for underlining as follows:
<u>Those
who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.</u> They
did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost
of liberty.
When you post your
paper (ADD DISCUSSION button), it will look like this:
Those
who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They
did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost
of liberty.
III.
Digital Photos
Students:
Digital photos taken during the FALL hands-on orientation session appear
on the Web Crossing site. Photos taken
during the WINTER session will appear below.
Once your photo is available to you, you should upload it to your Web Crossing
preferences page. Once you have done that, we will see your face
each time you post something in the integrative seminar (message
board) site. If you already uploaded your photo for another class,
you don't have to upload it again. Everything in your preferences
page follows you everywhere on Web-X (assuming you use the same log in
name). It is very easy to upload your picture. Just follow
these simple steps:
1.
First copy your photo and save it to your disk. Be sure to save it
as a JPEG file by giving it a .jpg ending (for example, smith.jpg).
Make sure you can remember where on your disk you save it.
2.
Go to Web-X, log in, and click on the PREFERENCES button. Scroll
down to the section labeled YOUR PICTURE.
3.
In the text box provided (next to the words "Upload a new picture"), click
on the BROWSE button. As you click your way to your picture file,
make sure the file type setting is All Files (*.*), not HTML. Once
you see the file name (e.g., smith.jpg), either double click on the file
name or click on the Open button. You should then see the
file location (path) in the Web-X text box. Now all you have left
to do is to save (set) your preference.
4.
Scroll to the bottom of the preferences page and click the button labeled
SET PREFERENCE. If you see your picture when you scroll back up to
the YOUR PICTURE section, you were successful in uploading it.
5.
The final step is to click the OK button at the bottom of the page.
Your picture will now appear next to each of your Web-X Discussion
site postings. If your uploaded photo has a lot of digtial garbage
in it (looks like it was run over by a truck in the the rain), try a different
computer, browser or platform (PC, Mac) until you succeed. The computers
in the Mac classroom seem to be best for uploading photos to Web-X.
You
will discover that the digital photo is an important feature in personalizing
the Internet and helping us to build online learning communities.
For that reason, use of a digital photo is mandatory in this course.
Our Web-X site, where your picture will appear, is not open to the public.
As you know, a password is needed to get into Web-X. If you have
serious reservations about using your photo in Web-X even under those conditions,
you are the weakest link; goodbye!
If
you do not like the photo that the Computer Center staff took, you may
use a digital photo of your own choosing. However, you may not use
anything but your own picture. You will not, for example,
be allowed to use a picture of the Muppets or Britney Spears or G.W. or
Osama Bin Laden or any other person, place or thing that is not you.
Photos must bear the same face you take to in-person seminars, i.e. no
cutsey identity-exploring shots. Photos in this class must be about 70
pixels wide and up to 90 pixels long. You will be unable to upload
photos larger than 10K.
If
you supply your own digital photo, you must adhere to the following specifications:
1) It must be a head shot (shoulders to top of head), 2) You must be looking
into the camera 3) It cannot be more than 10K in size (anything larger
cannot be uploaded even if you try), 4) It must be in color. And
don't forget: about 70 X 90 pixels.
There
are two ways to produce a digital photo: 1) you can take one with a digital
camera, either your own or someone else's, 2) you can take a regular photograph
and scan it to make a digital version. Places like Kinkos can help
with this.
--J.G.
Remember that
only the photos of students who took them at the Winter Quarter orientation
appear below. Photos taken in the Fall appear at the Web Crossing
site.
To get more
familiar with the use of Web-Crossing, you can take a self-paced tour
that will take about 10 minutes.
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