SC Homework due Friday 10 (& Tuesday 14) November

Hi folks,

There are two pieces of IE homepage homework:

A) Post a "Guidelines for Comments" statement (or similar) to your IE Homepage. State the purpose of your rules. Consider using a using a "Do - Do Not" format for each rule, e.g.

Do be original.
Do not repeat something that someone else has already explained or commented on.

For support refer to these guidelines in the Class web box (or others you have found):

• Blog - éS Blog Comment Guidelines

• Blog Comment Guidelines

• Guidelines for Blog Comments

B) Continue your work on your IE homepage. Post a brief message of the work you will do to our class forum. Use the IE Framework to identify the most important work you still need to do:

1. Self analysis - know why your issue and why it is important to you

2. Establish your credibility - provide evidence of research and analysis of your issue

3. Identify target group (those people whose behaviour/opinions you want to change) - stake out a public position on your issue. Your "sticky message" needs to be highly visible and stated in a clear, specific way.

4) Build a social network (your supporters) - develop an organisational base of people supportive of your "sticky message" and link to existing organisations with views compatible with your own.

5) Design an IE homepage - stake out a personal, public presence. Your homepage will connect a) you to everyone else in your network (you to other nodes) b) everyone else to everyone else (nodes to nodes) and c) everyone to your "sticky message".

Looking ahead: You will give a brief presentation on your IE Homepage next Tuesday, November 14. In your presentation you will explain how the design of your homepage addresses each of the 5 points in the IE Framework. Assessment: 10% (out of 35% as per Syllabus).