Presentation Schedule!
November 30-Nyisha, Chelsea, and Mark
December 2- Paula, Adam, Gene, Whitney
December 4-Alejandra, Felix, Kevin, Julio
December 7-Cynthia, Jalesa, Kishana, Markita
December 9-Saffiya, Stelios, Maria, Cathleen
December 11-Karon, MeiJiang, Zack







Welcome to our site for discussions about the Homeless project. I will use this site to do a number of different activities in class.

September 2-go to the discussion page and follow the instructions for an in class assignment. Select Defining Homelessness thread and reply using the Post reply buttons. Please remember to include url addresses for websites, or other citation information so that anyone can find the information.

September 4-go to the discussion page and follow the instructions for an inclass assignment. Select the Defining Sustainability thread and reply using the Post reply buttons. Please include source information.

September 9-11-defining the questions

September 14-19-two writing exercises in class using the discussion forum
1-writing summaries of website in the discussion list to get used to describing the purpose and audience and content of a website that contains information about either homelessness or sustainability
2-making a short argument about the definition of sustainability that seems to be applicable to the Coalition to End Homelessness in Broward County

September 21-25-
1-go to Team pages and follow the instructions on each team site. Teams are assigned as follows:

Team 1-Models/Exemplars
Felix, Tyler, Whitney (Team Leader), and Mark

Team 2-Homelessness-Definitions and Demographics
Cynthia, Mei-Jiang, Karon, Stelios

Team 3A-Homelessness-Causes/Consequences
Markita, Eugene, Chelsea (Bibliographer), Paula (Team Leader) Sofia

Team 3B-Homelessness-Public Policy implications
Nyesha (Team Leader), Alessandra (Bibliographer), Julio, and Jalesa

Team 4-Sustainability-Definitions and Issues
Zach, Pharoah, Maria, Adam, Cathleen, and Kishana


Meet with your teams, elect a team leader. Then decide how best to make sure that all of the work that you do individually and in group gets included on the Wetpaint site, either in the discussions forums or in the page work that you add to your site. I expect you to begin to make an assessment of your individual work by considering the activity report form that is on page one of the Homeless Project page.

General note: Please take advantage of the work that you have already done on the Discussion Forums-raid the forums like Vikings! Take information that your colleagues have posted up there for your own use...however, if you use someone's information, at least give their contribution a vote of thumbs up or this post was useful!!!!!

September 28-October 2 By the end of the day on Monday, please log onto Blackboard and submit your self-evaluation report #1-the simplest way to compile your self evaluation report is to log onto the Wetpaint site, select Members-choose yourself and then select the Tab "Contributions" and go through the list of entries beginning with those that are within the dates of September 20-27-select each date's entries and then evaluate what kind of category your work on the page indicates-if you've posted two links that day-then you can add 2x 5 pts for posting links...if you've added a summary then you can add 10 pts for that category, and so forth...

Instructions for Teams-Create a page entitled Working Draft-this page will contain your first draft reports based upon a suggested outline that I've created on our Project Page
Continue to read, decide which articles and sites need to be included and summarize, analyze and synthesize that information onto your working pages-

Note: There will be no class this Friday the 2nd!!! Please make sure that you continue to do your research, reading and writing, summarizing, analyzing and synthesing of material. Please note the Specific Questions that I have added to your Team front page to guide you in your work.

October 5-9 On Monday the 5nd of October, we will have a group meeting to discuss our progress to date, problems, and concerns.
Self Evaluation #2 for the period of September 27-October 4 due by Tuesday October 6
October 12-14 First Drafts of reports due on Wednesday the 14th...post to Team Draft Report Page

October 19-23 Finish revisions on Team Drafts
October 26-30 Finish Final drafts in group work.


November 1- Submit a proposal for a topic for final individual project.
Proposal must include the following items:
Topic
Specific Question that you are addressing
Analysis of the type of question and the requirements for responding to type, specific kinds of sources, etc.
Format for report. Will you be creating a written document intended for print? Or an electronic presentation that may include images, film, sounds, multimedia?
Brief Outline of the report-section by section

November 16th First draft due

November 30th Final draft due

Dec 1-11 Presentations- 15 minute presentations-Q&A