TECH2002 Lab Week 7: Web 2.0 Project: setting up and getting on with things

‘Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises’

(Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler)

In this lab there is nothing new to do – no new tasks to complete. Just use the time to try and get completely up-to-date and moving forward on the tasks that have already been set.

The aim of the lab is to put in place or consolidate all the foundations that have been established on the module and to start taking an active part in the module learning community by running your project and communicating it to others.



Set Up Tasks

1. Web 2.0 tools or services should be set up to document, review and plan the participation part of your project. These tools should link from your Wernicke Wiki avatar page. They are your online communication media tools that link out from the Blackboard wiki.

2. Your participation tools should have been selected and established or at least be in the process of being finalized.

3. Your use of social media for participation should link from a Web 2.0 project homepage in the Wernicke Wiki and there should be a link from the avatar page to the Web 2.0 project page.

4. There should be an entry in the Broca Blog that describes your project idea.

5. You need to complete a project proposal form and give it to Andrew (there is a blank form on the project section of the Wernicke Wiki if you need one).

6. You need to complete a project brief form and upload it to your Web 2.0 project homepage in the Wernicke Wiki (there is a blank form on the project section of the Wernicke Wiki if you need one).

Weekly Tasks

1. Complete your regular planned activities on a daily or weekly basis as appropriate as part of your participation in the social media of Web 2.0. These might include things that you are doing yourself and the observation or investigation of others doing similar activities.

2. Make a step-by-step record of what happened each week of the project using any social media tools that you think are appropriate.

3. Try to reflect on what you are doing on a regular basis and again use appropriate online tools to do this. As you review the situation, make plans about what you might do next and record them.

4. Do some background reading and research to help you understand and think about what you are doing. Use the module’s ‘social media classroom’ (Blackboard and online communication media’) to show what reading and research you have been doing.

5. Put your plans into action and continue your participation in a purposeful way.

6. Gradually build up the content of the Web 2.0 project homepage in the Wernicke Wiki so that it becomes a substantial microsite within the wiki and a portal to the online communication and participation media that you are using elsewhere on the web.

7. Track the progress of other people on the module by looking at their project microsite in the Wernicke Wiki and by following the links to see what they doing.