Hi Folks,
Just one new item of homework due for Friday:
A. Begin building your IE homepage.
The fifth step of the IE Framework calls for you to stake out a personal public presence. Your IE homepage will need to connect i) you to other nodes in your network ii) each node to your "sticky message" iii) each node to all other nodes. You may use any combination of social software to create your homepage, including a blog, wiki, RSS, distributed bookmarking system, aggregator (perhaps for live news updates on your IE issue), podcast, video, and there many
more services you might use. Don't worry! We can all help each other, the important thing is to make a start and show us your work Friday!
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The homework below was due today. There are two excellent examples of completed work
here and
here. Do be sure to catch up and finish by next class.
B. IE blog post: The IE Framework (you wrote this up in Google Docs last Friday) describes a five-step process to developing an Issue Entrepreneurship, including 1) Self analysis 2) Establishing credibility 3) Knowing your target group 4) Developing an organisational base, and 5) Designing a IE homepage. Develop a blog post that defines and responds to what
you see as the most important work you need to do at this particular stage. The Syllabus calls for ongoing posts summarizing the work you do, as well as, critical examination of the value of social software in your work. Come next class ready to present and discuss your ideas and issues with the group. You are encouraged to use the Internet to support your discussion.
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In class on Friday, you will-
a) Update us on your IE based on homework B above (Taketei and Kenta did this today).
b) Take us on a 5 min tour of the main features of a social software service. We did not have time in class today for this, but their will be time to for you to show us on Friday. This activity is described in more detail
here.
c) Show us the first steps you have completed to build your IE homepage.
Folks about homework, because Social Computing is a collaborative course, the work you do makes the course for everyone else, your input is vital and required for everyone to benefit from the collective intelligence, skills, and understandings of others. SC is not an individual study course, so it could be seen to be somewhat selfish not to contribute in timely manner. Please take seriously the responsibility you have to all other students in the course and complete your homework in timely fashion, arigato. Thanks folks!
