Class Saturday December 1st 2012

The last class for this module will be on Saturday 1st December
Please ensure you bring a laptop or device from which you can
connect to the internet.
You will be undertaking some exercises in class and will need this
device to complete them.

RWSL Wiki Assignment

Everyone needs to make one additional edit to the Wiki:

Include a link to your topic page on your individual page

In addition please make sure that:
1. the reflection from assignment 1 relates to your topics not the
experience of the assignment
2. there is a link to your individual page on RWSL Wiki Index
3. there is a link to your topic page on RWSL Wiki Index

Creating Links Within a Page in the Wiki

The assignment requires that you include your references as links to a numbered list at the end of the page.
It takes a small amount of work to create anchors and links to them.

Take a look at the section of the manual available at   http://usermanual.pbworks.com/w/page/11632108/Links#HowdoIlinktoanexistingworkspacepagefileemailaddressorwebsitenbsp
I've created a test page to demo how it works - that has a single link jumping to a single anchor.

Basically in the page you want to include anchors in, you have to insert an anchor first using HTML Javascript
Enter the name of the anchor and associated text as HTML
<a name="anchor_name">Target Text</a>

Don't worry about where the anchor tags appear - put all of them at the start or end - they won't show
up in the view just in the edit.

Then insert the link as normal linking to  http://ditrwsl2012.pbworks.com/PageName#anchor_name
Replacing with your page name and your anchor name.

FAO Part-time Students Only

Update 27th November 2012 - Doodle Poll is now closed.


I will be available to meet peopled individually to discuss the topic they wish to cover in assignment 3 on the evenings of Tuesday November 27th and Thursday December 6th.

Please use the Doodle poll below to select a slot from those available if you wish to meet, if you do not need a discussion you do not have to attend a meeting.
If these dates do not suit you but you would like to meet and discuss your topic, please email me and we can try to arrange a suitable time.

Assignment #2 - Key Points

The deadline for Assignment #2 is Saturday Nov 24th @ 5pm

To complete the assignment you need to:

• Create an individual profile page using the profile page template.
• Create a topic page using the topic page template.
• You need to include a link on RWSL Wiki Index for both your individual and your topic.
• You need to comment constructively on at least 2 peoples pages.

Please Note:

• To create your pages Copy the template page. Do not Edit this page.
• The section on reflection on assignment #1 should be related to the topics and should be edited to focus on the topics in which you were interested and which direction you think you are going.
• Once you have created the topic page, complete the reflection on assignment #2 on your individual page.

This assignment is an opportunity to put some structure on your thinking. I am not looking for in-depth analysis of numerous papers. I am looking for an brief overview of the topic you are interested in, a description of some current research that you have found that is interesting to you, a number of topics you think you could research further. 

Please review and ensure you are familiar with the evaluation section

http://ditrwsl2012.pbworks.com/w/page/55497071/Evaluation

FAO Full-time students only

For the next two class sessions Wednesday November 14th and Wednesday November 21st we will use the time slots to facilitate discussion of student topics.
Please use the following Doodle Poll to indicate your preferred meeting slot:
http://www.doodle.com/uv9yzishanyuv899


We will restart lectures on Wednesday November 28th and will cover the following topics in the remainder of the sessions:

• Plagiarism
• Reporting Statistics
• Interviews and Surveys

Academic Writing Exercises

Please checkout the following website to ensure that you are familiar with how to construct paragraphs.
It will help you focus your mind on topic sentences, supporting sentences and the form of paragraphs used in academic work.

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/

Class Wednesday 7th

The class will be a little late starting today - should start at 12.15

Access to the wiki

The wiki for Assignment #2 is available at http://ditrwsl2012.pbworks.com

The following logins have been created. If your student number is not listed, please contact me asap so that I can resolve the issue

C05673551@mydit.ie

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Output from Assignment 1

A series of visualizations showing the topics of interest to each programme group is available at
http://www.comp.dit.ie/dlawless/rwsl/Topics-Assignment1.html