Dr. Connor

I enjoyed your class and I enjoyed your wiki wisdom. I love coming up with a project that you liked. I know that you wish that we could make the BLCR a reality and I would too. If it is presented than that would be great. I would much prefer that new students coming in should be the ones that should run with the idea. The one thing that would make me happy is to know that new students will immediatley have the opportunity to jump right into the college life style. I want them to be the work in progress and the prototype. Naussicaa maybe the on who wants to run with this that is fine by me. Just let people know It was shake-n-bake and I helped.

Thank you

Felesha D. Roundtree(FDR)

Felesha,

A student in my 4260 class has an idea for single-parent resources that can build on your project. Get in touch by email so we can plan a meeting!

professor shareriff

Hi Selma,this is Mili I was as confused as you are. Hopefully you might find some answers here Query for ShareRiff and Groups Link Page.If you want you are welcome to join our group. If you still remain unanswered I hope ShareRiff can come to your rescue soon.

Hi Dr. Conner, .......how do we get into groups? Do we choose our own groups, and how many people do have to be in a group? Im really confused. Let me know asap if im supposed to form my own group or what's going on.....

Thank you

sincerely,

Selma Jusic

Hey all, if you haven't lodged your narrative, yet...get some sleep, and turn it in by tomorrow night. By tomorrow night, however, no matter what, let's all select 3 peer narratives to work on this week, the remix week. Tune in to the course calendar for remix discussions + links, and links designed to prepare us for the peer-grading that we'll undertake next week.

Hi Dr. Conner, i havent found anyone else to remix my narrative. You said to let you know if no one did by thursday. Here's my narrative maybe you can do something.

-naussicaa

Hey Trey, I always seem to have the same problem...linking. You would think I had never done this before and it was my first time using a computer, but I swear it isn't and I am usually not this dense but can you please help me again! I thought you copy the url then paste onto new page placing a [ at the beginning w/ no space and a ] at the end w/ no space? Plus a space after the url and then your new title for the url. Is this right? Obviously not b/c I am having no luck. Sorry for all the crazy looking linkage everywhere. Thanks again!!

--Stacey

Trey!August 27August 27 PM**

• Hopefully you see this. It's James Detweiler and I did a mash-up of Eric and Felesha's narratives and I just wanted to make sure that that was considered two narrative remixes even though it is one document. If not I will do an additional one. Just let me know. Thanks-James

conner@stpt.usf.edu

IM handle: rhythmizomenoid

Trey Bio

I'm looking forward to writing with all of you this semester. You have all by now noticed that 2 different sections have one wiki space in common. After some recent success linking courses based in different institutions, I expect that both sections of the course (602 face-to-face and 799 distance), by affirming both the possibilities and constraints inherent in each delivery mechanism, will benefit from "ideate-ing" and regulating the writing process together on this wiki.

above: "Don Quixote" by Salvador Dali at the Dali Archives Ltd.

mood: Quixotic 

current earworm: Akon \"Don't Matter\" and Thin Lizzy \"Cowboy Song,\" which to my mind seem to follow the same chord structure, haven't tested this notion out, though 

This week, we'll select our [Creative Commons licenses and get limber on the wiki--just writing informally is a great way to get some momentum. Like riding a bike (or, if you are DQ, riding a horse). Simple iterations (repetitively pushing the pedals) produce complex itineration (adventure!). As you upload, be sure to open another tab in your browser, and read our wiki as it emerges. When you see a word, phrase, clause, or sentence that gives you pause, makes you smile (or frown), or in any way resonates (or clashes with) your being, click edit and put brackets around the language that caught your attention, like this. Click "save." This is one way to begin linking. Now, you can easily create a new page: tell us why you broke into the text. Or, you could again click "edit" and direct us to a specific page by placing a URL within the brackets, in front of the language you chose to make link-able, like this (here, I have linked to a space I made for growing an FAQ specific to our course. Click edit on this page to see how this is done!).

While looking ahead to Wednesday's class and thinking about our goals for this week, I was looking at the 602 roll call and thinking about how many marketing majors we have in our midst. It might be fun, as a blog assignment, to write together about the current definition of marketing communications at Wikipedia. We could expand and remix the entry right here on our wiki, practice linking our efforts, and then, by next week, we could go to Wikipedia and make revisions of this term and related terms. Let me know what you think about this exercise--feedback with me! Once we get started, and throughout the early phase of the semester, we can "preview" and revise assignment ideas here. Click edit, click edit, click edit.

Big shout-out to section 799! You can do this. Just log in, provide your name and email, check "yes" to notifications, and click edit on this or any page on our wiki and notice the simplicity of wiki scripting. Right now, it's just brackets and urls. Set up your space, read the course policies and procedures, and then go to MondayAugustTwentySeventh to find your first directives. Time to write! G'night,

shareriff

wiki dial-tone, always on ch-ch-ch-changes

Since Monday, I've been cruising the wiki and helping out with functionality here and there, as needed, and even though I think most of us have the hang of things after today's class, I will happily continue to do wiki-noobie service this week. Once you get into the linking assignment (prompt 3, MondayAugustTwentySeventh), you'll be all set. If panic overwhelms you, just ask the wiki: if I don't respond soon, someone else will...

Wyrd to the wiki

"This opening of our minds was a subtle and yet a painful process. We began to have feelings which I believe are best described by the word "weirdness." The feeling was that we were up against the edge of a vast uncharted region in which we were about to embark with a good deal of mistrust concerning the appropriateness of our own equipment" John C. Lilly, A Feeling of Weirdness

Now that we are all aware of the CourseCalendar aka the "what do we have to write this week?" page, allow me to luxuriate in this space, and resonate with the intuitive "wiki is weird" meme emerging in our commons. I say, yes, yes, yes, exactly! When Naussicca refers to [http://enc3250.pbwiki.com/NaussicaaRegiswiki-ness], I think she is speaking to the same feeling (and therefore, knowledge) that Paul intuits when says This whole wiki thing is pretty weird, and seeks connection and friendship with others who feel the same. Kay goes further: wiki is quite weird, she says, and I have to agree. Etymologically speaking, the word "weird" derives from the old Anglo-Saxon noun "wyrd." Arlea Æðelwyrd Hunt-Anschütz explains this in her article \"What is Wyrd?\". What makes this interesting to any student of rhetoric is the way "wyrd" becomes a verb that signifies a "turning" of words, in the very same way the Greek-derived term trope also means "to turn" and bend language. According to Hunt-Anschütz, this is deep stuff, because "the Anglo-Saxon noun wyrd is derived from a verb, weorþan, 'to become', which, in turn, is derived from an IndoEuropean root *uert- meaning 'to turn'...wyrd embodies the concept that everything is turning into something else while both being drawn in toward and moving out from its own origins. Thus, we can think of wyrd as a process that continually works the patterns of the past into the patterns of the present" (What is Wyrd?). But to "wyrd" or to "trope" or to "wiki," if we can use wiki as a verb (and Zachary has done so already), has an immediate and practical application to the primary activity of any professional writing workshop: revising, changing, altering, bending, and remixing text until it is "in tune" with the writers' purpose and the readers' needs.

The image at the top of this post is a screenshot from a project on "wiki ontologies" for the journal Computers and Composition. Rich Doyle and I decided to investigate the limits of wiki as a medium by investigating the nature of different "moves" or "tropes" that it might enable. Wikis make texts that, in order to be read, must be broken (click edit, and shred it...or, think, then make a link). So, for the curious, this is an invitation. We hope you feel the joy, hear the call, and jump right in. If you too want to play "semiotic explorer " and become a search engine for wiki'd states of mind, put on your best Epic Adventure Face and browse your wikidelic self to wyrd2thewiki. Wyrd!

wyrd count for this post: 443

Interview assignment

Ok, so I've lined up 2 "professional writing" interviews, for comparison's sake. I will two friends, both working professionals in different fields (technical writer, and web developer), and I will conduct one interview on IM (easy copy and paste to the wiki) and another live, using a handheld cassette recorder, and then transcribe it to the wiki.