How to participate in the class remix

This post summarizes the rules for participating in the BIT320 Fall 2005 class remix.

Topics: remixing

The class remix engine will officially run from 12:01 AM Sunday, September 11, 2005 through 12:01 AM Tuesday, December 20, 2005. At any point in the semester, students may fall up to one week behind in their participation without penalty. My best advice is to just do a little every week day that you can. The more you do it, the more you will like it and get out of it. I will grade based on quantity and quality.

If you’re still reading this, you’re wondering how to best participate in the class so that you can maximize points allocated on the basis of class participation. Only class participation that takes place in the remix site counts. A key element of this class is that we have created our own remix site to understand an emerging, important phenomenon in information management for large and small organizations. To really understand, we gotta do.

My goal in assigning 36 out of 100 possible total course points for class participation is to motivate you to get on-line, do it, and pay attention to it. There are some simple to-do's that will help you get good credit for participating in the remix:

• Blog posts. You get credit for contributing knowledge in the form of relevant questions, answers, and observations.
  • Make five one-paragraph posts per week. A paragraph is at least three sentences organized around a single thought. You may write more.
  • Have at least one link in each post. You may link to a syllabus entry if you are talking about a class issue. You may link to another participant's blog post. In short, you may link to any relevant web resource.
  • Assign at least one category per post. Categories are also called tags and consist of one word that summarizes the post's content.
  • Trackback whenever possible so people will know you are discussing topics they have covered in their posts.
• Social bookmarks. You get credit for bookmarking and tagging relevant resources in your del.icio.us account.
  • Bookmark ten relevant items per week. Include the title of the item in the description field. Include a short one line description in the extended field.
  • Bookmark any relevant item. These may include other participants' posts, other bloggers' posts, news items you find on the web.
  • Assign at least one tag per bookamrk. Tags are like blog post categories and consist of one word.
  • Do not bookmark other people's bookmarks. It just does not make sense.

Bud edited this on September 7, 2005

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