Assignments

N.B.: This course has no final exam.

ANGEL assessments
Wiki writing and editing

ANGEL assessments

ANGEL assessments can be completed on the ANGEL site. All ANGEL assessments are “open book”: that is, you are permitted to consult the relevant course notes while completing each assessment.

Wiki writing and editing

You can find the link to the Confluence Wikispace on the Sites page. The Confluence Wikispace includes a “sandbox” page, where you can experiment with editing and saving a page until you get used to it, and a sample note to use as a model for the tone and style of your own contributions. I will cover basic logistics of using the Confluence Wikispace in one class session only, prior to use.

If you all try to edit a wiki page at the same time (for example, if you all start working on an assignment on the evening of the deadline), you may have to manage edit conflicts. (See Concurrent Editing and Merging Changes.) Especially when you are adding original content to a wiki page for the first time (rather than editing page content that is already there), avoid composing your text directly in the wiki editor itself. Rather, compose your text using a text editor or word processor (and save it among your own personal files), then paste it into the wiki editor. Familiarize yourself, as well, with your Drafts archive, to which Confluence will save documents you are editing, at a default interval of thirty seconds. (See Working with Drafts.)

Note-writing assignments

Due 10/31–11/21 on Russell, Open Standards and the Digital Age.

Contribute 250 words’ worth of notes to each document. Enter your notes in the appropriate child pages of the Confluence Wikispace page Notes (child pages are linked below).

Group membership is assigned by the first letter of your PSU user id: if your PSU user id is abc1234, then you should contribute to the document assigned to A-B.

Chapter	A-B	C-J	K-Z
Chapter 1 (Introduction)	Openness	Ideology	Standardization
Chapter 2	Standardization	Control	Cooperation
Chapter 3	Cooperation	Standardization	Consensus
Chapter 4	Monopoly	Cooperation	Standardization
Chapter 5	Standardization	Control	Innovation
Chapter 6	Control	Standardization	Internationalization
Chapter 7	Internationalization	Openness	Standardization
Chapter 8	Critique	Consensus	Autocracy
Chapter 9 (Conclusion)	Openness	Standardization	Critique

Working paper assignments

Due 12/03–12/17 on Russell, Open Standards and the Digital Age.

Working paper assignment 1

Rewrite and polish the following notes:

A-B	C-J	K-Z
Standardization	Openness	Cooperation
Critique	Consensus	Control

Working paper assignment 2

Drawing on our rewritten and polished Notes, as well as the notes we did not rewrite and polish, and where necessary on a rereading of chapters of Russell’s Open Standards and the Digital Age, contribute 100 words to the following segment of our final working paper:

A-B	C-J	K-Z
Standardization	Openness	Control

Working paper assignment 3

Drawing on our rewritten and polished Notes, as well as the notes we did not rewrite and polish, and where necessary on a rereading of chapters of Russell’s Open Standards and the Digital Age, contribute 400 more words to the following segment of our final working paper:

A-B	C-J	K-Z
Openness	Control	Standardization

Working paper assignment 4

Rewrite and polish the following segment of our final working paper:

A-B	C-J	K-Z
Control	Standardization	Openness

Working paper assignment 5