Your+Wikispaces+Assignments

I thought it might be useful to repost the assignments for the wikispaces page--just in case. Here they are:

**// Posts to Course Wikispace, 3 @ 250+ words each. //** At several points during the semester, I will ask you to post answers to prompts that are related to your research in the course, your writing, or your plans for collaborative work down the road.

Responses are graded CR/NC (or 2/0): if they respond actively to the questions I ask and are at least 250 words long, you get 2 points credit. Post your responses in the wikispace areas that I create for us.
 * 1) // Post 1, due by class time Wed Feb 17 : // Post the link to an article, website, video, or other online text to the appropriate section of the course wiki and then give us details. What is the text about? What points is the author making? How does he or she make those points? How could this be useful to other people interested in the changing shape of higher education? Use evidence from the text to support your summary.
 * 2) // Post 2, due by class time Mon Feb 22 : // What kinds of action do you think might be most effective for countering the public perceptions (and misperceptions) about college students, funding for colleges, or the purpose of a college degree? Find some examples of what you mean by searching for online videos, blogs, zines or other sites that describe the kind of “hacks,” protests, campaigns, or drives that you think might work. Describe them: why could they be useful for us? Who might be influenced, and why?
 * 3) // Post 3, due by class time Mon Mar 8 : // Find some local or national coverage of the Mar 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education and analyze it rhetorically. What did the report focus on? What did it //not// mention? What kinds of images did it use? Were they powerful? What (true or false) impressions might readers come away with if they’d seen this report?