BA271 Week 5 Lecture: Wikis, websites, peer reviews

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BA271 Week 5 Lecture Wikis, websites, peer
reviews

• Dave Sullivan

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Goals for today

• Review Upcoming Schedule
• Wiki project copyleft, mentoring, and using
  categories
• Website Project - FINAL
• Peer Review exercise
• Use PowerPoint to record written ideas
• Use Microsoft Producer to make movies
• Midterm ideas
• Animation Shop

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The OSU Wiki Main page

• What does it look like today?http//oregonstate.e
  du/webprojects/wiki/osu
• What did it look like last Friday?
  http//oregonstate.edu/webprojects/wiki/osu/index.
  php?titleMain_Pageoldid7354Community

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What is a wiki discussion page?

• Here is the OSU Wikis Main discussion page
  http//oregonstate.edu/webprojects/wiki/osu/index
  .php/TalkMain_Page
• Wikipedias definition of a discussion
  pagehttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_page
  

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What is a wiki category?

• A category is a software feature of MediaWiki.
  Categories provide automatic indexes, that are
  useful as table of contents. Together with links
  and templates they structure a project.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HelpCategory

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Policies for the OSU Wiki

• What policies does it have today?http//oregonsta
  te.edu/webprojects/wiki/osu/index.php/OSU_WikiAbo
  ut
• What policies and guidelines does Wikipedia
  have?http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikipediaPolic
  ies_and_guidelines

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What is a copyleft

• Wikipedias definition http//en.wikipedia.org/wi
  ki/Copyleft
• What is the GNU free documentation license?
  http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentatio
  n_License

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Upcoming Schedule

• Tuesday Peer reviews
• Wednesday at noon Website Reviews
• Thursday Help session only
• Week from Tuesday midterm! (In basement computer
  labs)
• Late next week begin studying Access and
  database concepts

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Website Project - FINAL

• Requirements
• Goals page Target audience and expected results
• Sources page Annotated bibliography tell us
  what you did
• Photos page
• Feedback form
• Publish on \\cob-storage\studentwebdata
• OSU link and disclaimer
• A development copy in your \classwork\ba271\websit
  e folder

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Website Project - FINAL

• Suggestions
• Writing quality, content, style, and creativity
• Common header areas
• Use tables to organize parts of a page well
• Use book marks for long pages
• Construct a customized logo with a paint or draw
  program

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Peer Reviews of Websites

• Each person will review three other websites.
• Written ideas go in a PowerPoint file.
• Visual ideas go in WMV videoclips.

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Video clips and movies

• Building and editing movies with a PC
• Building a Producer tutorial
• Video for Paul Risser http//faculty.bus.oregonst
  ate.edu/sullivan/RisserDemo/risservideo.htm
• Recording a custom DVD using Windows Movie Maker

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Animated GIFs

• PaintShopPro's Animation Shop
• Lets you pack up several pictures in one file.
• Works best if you draw well or if you scale a
  bunch of photos to the same size

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Activities you should do

• Website reviews by Wednesday _at_ noon
• Wiki mentoring
• Extend your wiki contributions
• Revise your website project
• Practice the practice midterm