Wiki
For each week in which we have an ‘advanced’ reading, a student or group of students will be responsible for writing a summary and list of discussion questions on TeachyWiki. Teachywiki is something of an experiment in all my classes this year. Students will post reading notes and discussion questions to a single, collaboratively edited forum. In future years, students will be able to learn from and improve on your summary and questions about, say, Frederic Jameson, and even this year you’ll be able to spy on what students are reading in my other classes. I hope through this forum to help dispel the sense that you have no audience outside of the teacher. You are here to participate in real debates that are happening in the world right now, and the public wiki is one way of doing that.
Even if it is not your week to post a summary, you are expected to read these postings and edit or add to them in preparation for the class. These postings will be due on Tuesday by 5 pm. We will determine how to divide up each week’s readings and practice posting to the wiki in the first class meeting. Active and thoughtful participation on the wiki will involve returning to previous posts and editing them in light of class discussions, and participation in the wiki will affect your course grade.