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[ Formal Data | Syllabus | Schedule | Readings | Tools ]
Facebook will be used as a social networking component for the course. Its goal is to help you to learn a bit about your classmates. Create an account (if you do not have one yet), add Rosta to the list of friends, and let her know when it is done. She will add you to the class group and you will be able to see your classmates.
UMtella is a resource sharing system, which we use to share interesting links (to blogposts, news articles, videos, pictures, etc.) related to the course. Create your account and select community The Social Web at Pitt (to get to it faster in the future, add it to "My communities"). Sharing links and voting for other links is encouraged, but not required for PhD students. You can always see who is an active community participant by clicking on a Community link on the top right.
CiteUlike is a system for sharing links to academic papers. We will use it to find and share papers related to each topic of the course. Create your account (if you do not have it yet), find the group Social Web (clicking on Search groups link on the bottom left) and apply to join it. Explore from the start two ways of posting: finding it on the Web (Google Scholar is best for it) and finding it right on CiteULike. When posting a paper, you will be asked where to share it. You can choose your library and any of the communities where you are the member. The requirement is to have it shared in Social Web community.
Class Wiki is a dedicated Wiki installation, which we will use to collaboratively create structured course offprint. Brief outline of all topics as well as links to most interesting resources are posted there.
Comtella-D is a powerfull discussion forum, which we will use to discuss readings. Create your account, go to discuss tab and pick up the area Social Web @ Pitt. All threads related to our class are there. Each paper is discussed in its own thread. Nice feature of Comella-D is the list of hot threads - most likely the thread you need is right there. Submit your critique and questions and new posts. Reply to the posts created by others by hitting reply.
Wordpress is a Web Log (blog) system. Create an account (if you do not have one) and add a course blog. Share the with the instructors and any classmates you wish so that they can add the blog to their blogroll.
CoPE is a system to share paper summaries in a secure way. The account on CoPE will be created for you. Add a paper to the class folder and then add a summary to it.
Copyright © 2008 Peter Brusilovsky