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=Welcome to Kim Jaxon's Wiki Page for Students=

Description
Think of our class as a large research team and this wiki as a tool to help us share research that supports our writing. We'll use wikispaces to flesh out key terms and ideas that we come across in our research. For example, if we are trying to understand how identity is created on social networking sites like Facebook, we can post links to articles, videos, and webpages that help us in our research. We can also begin to develop a class lexicon or dictionary of key terms and ideas and revise those ideas together by creating new pages on this wiki site.

For a great short video on wikis and their use, click here: [|What's a wiki?]

What is Web 2.0?
Since we'll be using Web 2.0 to study Web 2.0, it may be useful to understand what that term means. Here's a video from Mike Wesch, a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University, who does research on social media with his students through his Digital Ethnography course. In this video, Wesch explores questions that emerge from our use of the web: [|The Machine is Us/ing Us]

And here's a link to an overview of Web 2.0 from Wikipedia: [|Wikipedia Web 2.0]

List of Pages
On the left, you'll find a few links to our own wiki pages to get us started. These links we'll help us to organize ideas for research. We'll add to these pages and create new pages as we do our research.

Link to our Class Ning:
We'll use a class Ning so that we can get to know each other better. A Ning allows us to create our own social networking site (like Facebook or Myspace); the difference is that we are the only ones on the site. We can post pictures, share video, start blogs. In a large class like ours, the goal is to use the Ning to get to know each other (**just a cautionary note: we'll still avoid posting images that are not PG or at least PG-13). Here's the link: [|Jaxon130 Ning]

Sign Up For Twitter:
We'll be using Twitter to post updates in class. You will be asked to sign up for a Twitter account and to follow drjaxon (me) and your workshop group on Twitter. Here's a link to Twitter: [|Twitter] And here's a link to a video that explains Twitter: [|How to Use Twitter]

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