Assignment Two: Issue Contributions to Minor Topic
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Due date:
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Monday, Week 9
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Length:
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200
words for each contribution
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Value:
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20%
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Task
Make at least six contributions to the discussions lists
about an issue being researched by another student, providing
resources, interesting article references or important points
to consider when they construct their major assignment on that
issue.
During the course of this unit, you will have the chance
to investigate both a major and minor topic on a 'contested' issue.
Your major topic will be the subject of your major written assignment -
the website you construct. This assignment is the assessment on your
contribution to your minor topic.
Part of the process of developing the website about the
issues you have discussed in Assignment Three, is to assess and include
the contributions made by the other students in the class, to the
discussion on your issue. This assessment is based upon the
contributions that you make to the web sites of other students (the
ones they are constructing for their major assignment). You need to
read, discuss and generally seek out information, sites and articles
that will help other students successfully complete their major
assignment task.
At the beginning of the semester, check out what issues
the other students are going to investigate for their major assignment.
They (and you) will post their decision on the noticeboard by the end
of the second week. Once you are aware of the issues that other
students are investigating, you need to begin looking for information
on those topics as well to assist them in their study.
Once you have found something interesting, post it to the relevant
issue site on the Contested Knowledges Jottit site, with a short
annotation about why it is interesting and what you see is important
in that article, website, document or program.
To complete this assessment, you need to make at least
six (6) contributions to the information and discussion on the issues
being investigated by the other students in the class. It is worth
trying to keep to one topic so that you are getting deeper into the
ideas in another of the issues addressed within the unit, but feel free
to contribute to other issue discussions if you find something useful
in your reading 'travels'.
When you have finished this assessment task, email me with a list of
your six main contributions so that I can re-check them and complete
the assessment.
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