Each week, a group of students (2 or 3 per group) will be responsible for creating and maintaining a collaborative set of notes -- web content that documents our discussion as it unfolds in class.

As we are conceiving them here, notes are not simply a transcription of everything that happens in class. Nor are they a discursive shorthand.

Instead, a set of "notes" for a class will be a wiki-style document, or set of documents, that synthesizes the major concepts and insights of a particular class meeting and reproduces those ideas in a coherent form that is legible to any interested reader. Essentially, the relationship between notes and a day of class will be similar to the relationship between a précis and a text, but notes may also need to include other data as well. For example, if someone brings up an interesting website, your notes should include that link. If a youtube video is discussed, embed it in your notes. If an interesting diagram ends up on the whiteboard, take a picture of it and post it with your notes.

Bear in mind, the notes themselves are collaborative. This means that the perspective they represent should be singular -- as opposed to a disjointed group of each team members notes.

Take advantage of the technology of this website for collaboration. Revise each others ideas, rethink your phrasing, and above all challenge each other to create the best and most interesting product possible.

At a minimum, you should strive to include a good, 300-word summary of the days activities, including supporting documentation as needed. Also include a quotation (or two) of a key passage (or passages) discussed from the day's reading (or viewing/playing). The text should be clean, coherent prose that is technically perfect and stylistically effective. In other words, check for grammar and spelling.

Your notes for your assigned week of coverage (see assignments below) will be due by the next meeting of class after your week has concluded.

Evaluation will be broken down as follows. The assignment as a whole is worth 100 points (10% of your final grade). Since each team is covering two weeks total (not sequential), each week will be graded for 40 points. At the conclusion of the semester, each team member will provide a confidential report about their group, and the remaining 20 points will be distributed according to how well each member participated in the group project.

To create your notes, find your week under the Notes outline, and edit your page. Add your content accordingly. If you want to create multiple pages, do so by clicking the "add child page" link that appears on each notes page.