Our LIS 540 Community

What is this?   Just for fun (and because a student inquired), I wrote a Greasemonkey script for the top page of our course website. If you're curious about modifying webpages, interested in using the Firefox browser, etc., then you can load it and gain the efficiency of clicking directly to our threaded chat.

What is this?    As an experiment, I am logging the web traffic of our course website. Each week I process the raw traffic counts and produce a summary of use. You can study the summary and see how our class is using the course website, which pages your peers are reading and which pages your peers are ignoring. (Of course, it is also interesting to me, as teacher and creator of these webpages, to see how our class is reacting to various class webpages. For example, is the class reading the readings? Which readings? Etc.)

• Week ending April 1, 2006
• Week ending April8, 2006
• Week ending April 15, 2006
• Week ending April 22,2006
• Week ending April 29, 2006
• Week ending May 8, 2006
• Week ending May 13, 2006
• Week ending May 20, 2006
• Week ending May 27, 2006

What is this?    Terry's attempt at literature. Is this the "Great American Novel"? Read it and judge for yourself.

What is this?    Use the course listserv to send a message to everyone registered in the class, Terry included. If you respond to the listserv, your response is sent to everyone.

What is this?   Send Terry a message. He will respond just to you (providing he has time and he feels like it, etc.)

What is this?   Use the anonymous e-mail to send Terry an e-mail anonymously. Since he won't know who sent the message, he won't be able to respond to you. (Of course, he may not feel like it!)

What is this?   This is a class discussion list. Students can talk about class topics, assignments, etc. Here are some pointers about using a discussion list. Our discussion list becomes active on March 20, 2006. Note that messages will be archived after 30 days. You can still view these messages, but you have to look for them in the 'archive' section.

What is this?   This is our class wiki. A wiki is a device that supports 'social writing'; that is, we can all join together and write a text. Such a text has many authors.

• Wikipedia: Why Wikipedia is so great
• Basic editing with our class wiki

What is this?   This is a social discovery tool. As members of our class surf the web they can 'dot' pages. By logging on to our class page at Blue.us you can see what web resources your peers have found.

To create a Dot for our class, the only thing *required* is to:

- Select to share 'All Blue.Us Users'
- Enter the tag: LIS 540

All the other items are optional.