ADM1370 Applications of Information Technology for Business
ASSIGNMENT 1:
DESIGNING WIKIS FOR PERSONAL & COLLABORATIVE WEB PUBLISHING
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION |
You will be introduced in class to the basic concepts of Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis along with some of their underlying interactive and collaborative features. This assignment aims to provide you with hands-on experience at using some of these collaborative tools on a cloud-based wiki platform.
Remember that assignments are largely self-directed. You are expected to make an effort to learn by
yourself, with the help of your instructor and the Teaching Assistants. It is important that you review this document in its entirety before starting or asking questions about the assignment.
Important Links
For this assignment, you will utilize the cloud-based (hosted) wiki solution offered by PBworks (http://www.pbworks.com/). Here are additional links to get you started on the assignment and to help you add your personal touch to the final product:
A. Manual from PBworks (https://edumanual.pbworks.com/w/page/58006553/My%20PBworks): The
information on this site will help you create a wiki account and your own workspace. Please read Part 2 of this document before creating accounts and workspaces.
B. Workspaces tutorial for wikipage editing (https://edumanual.pbworks.com/w/page/
57903306/Workspaces): This site contains useful information about wiki editing. You may have to refer to it as you complete the tasks in the assignment such as inserting a table of contents, embedding RSS feeds and YouTube videos etc.
Important Notes to Read Before Starting the Assignment
1. All students are required to work in teams of four to meet the requirements outlined in the assignment.
2. Only one team member needs to submit the assignment through Brightspace and all team members will receive the same feedback for the assignment.
3. YourWiki must have a homepage that contains your team members’ names, course section (e.g. ADM1370 M orADM1370 Qetc.) and the email addresses of all team members.
4. For the TAs to grade your assignment, you must invite the TA account:[email protected]. If you do not add the TA account as an administrator to yourWiki, they will not be able to view or
grade yourwiki. Failure to invite the TAs to yourWiki by the time it is being marked will result in a
penalty of 25 marks. You will then receive ane-mail from the grading TA asking that you invite them to yourWiki so it can be graded, and you will have 48 hours from the time of the e-mailto provide the
necessary access. Failure to do so will result in a mark of zero for the assignment.
5. While working together on the wiki, it is possible that you will experience a few instances when more than one person will be editing the same page at the sametime. When this happens, everyone but
one person will receive a warning message telling them that somebody else is editing the page. If you receive this warning, STOP editing and try again later after the initial person finishes editing the page.
6. Feel free to be creative with yourWiki. While you should strive to meet the requirements outlined in this document, the content is up to your discretion.
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ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS |
Your assignment will be evaluated based on the following requirements:
One group member must submit the assignment through the submission dropbox on Brightspace before 11:59 PM Saturday, February 3rd, 2024, Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Your submission must include:
1. Name and student ID of all group members
2. Brightspace group number;
3. Link to yourWiki workspace
4. Signed Statement of Academic Integrity
You must grant the TA account (ADM1370TA@gmail.com) the administrator permission level to your PBWorks workspace. Failure to provide the TAs administrator access will result in your assignment receiving 0%.
Group Assignment Checklist & Disclosure
Please read the disclosure below following the completion of your group assignment. Once all team members have verified these points, hand in this signed disclosure with your group assignment.
1. All team members acknowledge to have read and understood their responsibilities for maintaining academic integrity, as defined by the University of Ottawa’s policies and regulations. Furthermore, all members understand that any violation of academic integrity may result in strict disciplinary action as outlined in the regulations.
2. If applicable, all team members have referenced and/or footnoted all ideas, words, or other intellectual property from other sources used in completing this assignment.
3. A proper bibliography is included, which includes acknowledgement of all sources used to complete this assignment.
4. This is the first time that any member of the group has submitted this assignment or essay (either partially or entirely) for academic evaluation.
5. No member of the team has utilized unauthorized assistance or aids including but not limited to outsourcing assignment solutions, and unethical use of online services such as artificial intelligence tools and course sharing websites.
6. Each member of the group has read the full content of the submission and is assured that the content is free of violations of academic integrity. Group discussions regarding the importance of academic integrity have taken place.
7. All team members have identified their individual contributions to the work submitted such that if violations of academic integrity are suspected, then the student(s) primarily responsible for the violations maybe identified. Note that the remainder of the team will also be subject to disciplinary action.
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Course Code: |
ADM1370 |
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Assignment Title: |
ASSIGNMENT 1: DESIGNING WIKIS FOR PERSONAL & COLLABORATIVE WEB PUBLISHING |
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Use of Plagiarism Detection Tools: |
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Date of Submission |
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Each group member will be required to complete and submit individually a peer evaluation form. This form
will have you evaluate yourself and your group members according to the following Key Teamwork Competencies 1 :
1. Commitment to the team’s work
2. Communication with team members
3. Capabilities that include having a strong foundation of knowledge, skills, and abilities 4. Focus on keeping the team on track
5. Emphasizing high standards
A link to the peer evaluation system will be sent to your university email. Further instructions regarding the peer evaluation will be provided during lectures and on Brightspace.
Peer Evaluation feedback will be aggregated and provide anonymously to each group member so that they can learn from the experience and improve going forward. Failure to submit a peer evaluation form will result in receiving an individual grade of zero for this assignment.
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PART 1: SETTING UP YOURWIKI
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1.1 Create a Wiki Site
Only one person from each group must create a wiki and act as the administrator of the site. Once the Wiki is setup, the administrator can invite the other group member to join the Wiki and contribute content:
https://my.pbworks.com/?p=create
Fill the form as follows and click “Create Account” (also see screenshots below):
You will see the following confirmation message:
Open your uOttawa email and click on the link provided to confirm your request.
You will receive a second confirmation email congratulating you on the successful setup of your workspace.
The email also has an invitation to a free webinar to help you start using your account
(http://www.pbworks.com/webinars.html) and a link to the PBworks User Manual
(https://edumanual.pbworks.com/w/page/58006589/Home).
After you log-in, click on the “Home” tab, then “Create a workspace”:
You will be asked to choose a PBWorks plan. Select the basic option which is offered to individuals, youth organizations and public wikis for free (click on the green “Select” button as illustrated below):
You will be prompted to choose the name of your Wiki using numbers and letters only. Note that the name you type will become the address of your Wiki. You must name your workspace as follows:
• [Course Code] [Term] [Course Section] [G] [Group #]
• Example: ADM1370W24P00G101
It is important that you name your workspace correctly. You do not want to be mistaken for being in another course, section, or group. Also, please ensure you have correctly named your workspace before you create and work on it, as you will not be able to change it aftwards.
Select “For individuals” and check the “I agree that this is for non-commercial use only” box, then click on “Next” .
A Welcome message with the name/address for your Wiki will appear. Use this screen to choose your security settings by selecting “Only people I invite or approve” and check “I agree to the PBworks terms of service” button.
Click “Take me to my workspace” button to start editing your Wiki:
1.2 Setup Your Wiki for Collaboration
This essential step is required to setup the Wiki for collaboration. Click “Invite more people” (in the upper right corner of your screen) and send an invitation to your group members become members of yourWiki.
A pop-up window will appear. Type the email of your team member. From the “Permission level” drop down menu select “Administrator” to assign respective permissions to your team member.
You must also add the course TA account ([email protected]) as an administrator.
YourWiki is now setup, and you and each member of your team can start populating it with content and features.
Your Wiki should have a theme that is introduced on your home page. The theme can be anything of interest to you such as business, sports, technology, music, hobbies, or art. It is up to you to find interesting and relevant content that you can use to populate multiple pages on your Wiki. Each content page on your Wiki should be based on specific topics within the theme that you have selected, and overall, your Wiki should be logically organized.
An example Wiki site that is based on the topic “Cooking with the Internet” can be found here as an inspiration for your Wiki (http://adm1370w23p00g00.pbworks.com/). Note that this Wiki should serve as an example of how your Wiki could look like once you have implemented on the requirements contained in the rest of this document. However, you must choose an original topic that works for you and your team.
Here area few pointers to help you with adding content on your Wiki site:
3.1 Wiki Edit Controls
You can toggle between edit/view mode by clicking the “View” or ”Edit” button under the Wiki tab.
3.2 Creating Wiki Pages
You can create a new page by clicking the “New” button under the “Pages & Files” tab.
A drop-down menu will appear prompting the selection of a new page or new file. Select “Create a page…”:
Provide a name for the page that will be used in the navigation menu of your Wiki and click “Create page”:
In addition to the pagename, also add relevantcontent tagsthat will serve as a basis to index your new wiki page.
Each person in the team should create at least two wiki pages for which they will act as the primary author. Additionally, both members should contribute to the main Wiki Homepage (FrontPage). Remember that
each page on your Wiki should have at least two paragraphs of content with any additional multimedia (videos, images etc.) that you want to include on the page. If you obtain content from other websites,
please acknowledge this with a link to the original source. You must list the links to these sources at the bottom of yourwiki pages.
3.3 Editing Wiki Pages
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To edit each new created page, click the “Edit” button on the top left side of the content frame. The first view will always be the visual editor. |
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To save your work click “Save” or “Save and Continue” at the bottom of the page.
As you keep updating and revising yourwiki pages, it is a good habit to use the “Describe your changes:” textbox to describe the page revisions. As noted in Part 4, you are required to use this feature a few times while editing each wikipage.
3.4 Formatting Content on your Wiki Pages |
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Part of your assignment grade will be based on the structure and presentation of yourwiki content pages. Please make sure you utilize text formatting tools such as fonts, bulleted and numbered lists, horizontal rules (separators) and section headings as you proceed with adding content on yourWiki. 3.5 Adding Images on your Wiki Pages |
In addition to text content, yourwiki should include graphics and
images to add richness to your site. You can add animage by
clicking the “Insert links” button in the Page Tools bar. You can
either upload your own imagefiles, or use a link to an externally
hosted imagefile. You may simply drag and drop images or files
from your desktop to the workspace page. You are required to have at least one image on the main Wiki page, and at least two other
images anywhere else on the Wiki site. The images should not be random, and they should be associated with the theme or topic of yourwiki.
3.6 Associating Tags with your Wiki Pages
Tags allow you to index the various content pages on yourwiki using relevant keywords. Multiple pages on
the wiki can be assigned the same tags, and looking up these tag keywords would then bring up those
pages. You should assign tags to at least two pages in yourwiki space (ideally, more). You can do this by
going to a View mode of a specific page and selecting “Add Tags” from the right-side menu. By clicking “Add Tags”, you can start entering keywords separated by a comma to assign different tags with that page. Click “Save” when done.
To retrieve a page(s) labelled with a tag, use the workspace search engine. Simply type in the search box tag:(name of the tag) and hit Enter. A Search window with a list of all pages tagged as indicated in the
search will appear. The screenshots below illustrate a search for pages tagged as “report”:
The search for tag:report produced the following results:
3.7 Creating a SideBar Navigation Menu
After creating a page, its title will appear in the Navigator section located on the right side of your screen. However, to help vistors better navigate yourwiki, you will need to customize SideBar window by creating your own navigation menu:
While in Edit mode, you can insert hyperlinks to yourwiki pages, as well as any relevant external pages as you deem appropriate by selecting “Insert a link to a new page” under “Page Tools” section. This method will provide more flexibility over labels for your pages that you would like to appear in the right navigation menu.
3.8 Creating Links to your other Wiki Pages on your main Wiki Homepage
As you start creating different pages on your Wiki and populate them with content, you should include links to these pages in your Navigation Menu, as well as on yourwiki homepage.
To link each page from your homepage, goto your homepage and apply the process describe in creating your sidebarbar navigation menu.
You can add links to selected label
entering Edit mode and selecting “Add
Link” from the text formatting toolbar.
Make sure that the labels for the links
that appear on your homepage make
sense to the reader at first glance.
3.9 Creating Links for Source Material Used on Your Wiki
To complete yourWiki, you should add material from different websites in the public domain. Any material you include on a wikipage (including text, images, videos etc.) should be cited at the bottom of the page in a
“ References ” section or by using the Footnote feature. You can cite your sources by simply providing weblinks.
A widget is a piece of reusable web content that provides additional functionality to you website. In this
assignment, you are asked to include widgets for RSS feeds, YouTube videos, as well as at least one other third-party widget of your choosing.
4.1 Embedding RSS Feeds
Find an RSS feed pertaining to your theme or topics!
For this part, you need to find and incorporate an RSS feed pertaining to your theme or topics. For instance, goto your favourite news site, and search for the icon or links to RSS Feeds for the site. Alternatively, you
can conduct a Google search for specific types of RSS feeds or sites. Once you have found the RSS feed that you like, copy the URL of the RSS feed.
Sometimes, you may have to right click on the link or the RSS feed icon (
) and select “copy shortcut” or “copy link location” or “copy link address” .
Add the RSS feed to yourwiki
Once you have the URL of the RSS feed, you can add the RSS feed using the following method:
a) Open a page in edit mode:
b) From the text editor toolbar select Insert->More Plugins…->HTML & Gadgets->RSS feed.
“Insert Plugin” pop-up window will appear. Enter the URL code for your selector RSS in the space provided and tick the “Show the feed title” box. Click “Next” .
You will be given a preview of the selected RSS content. Click “Back” to change the link or “Insert Plugin” to have that content on yourwiki homepage. A sample RSS code for The National from the CBC website
(https://www.cbc.ca/rss/) was used to illustrate the steps described above.
Caution:
Some RSS feeds are not compatible with PBWorks RSS reader. If you attempt to add a particular RSS feed and it continuously returns and error or does not display any links, please find and use another RSS feed.
4.2 Adding a YouTube Video
For this part, you will incorporate a YouTube video relevant to your theme or topics. To embed a YouTube video in a wikipage, change to EDIT mode and select Insert -> HTML/JavaScript which will prompt the “Insert Plugin” pop-up:
This pop-up requires embed code available from the YouTube site. To get this code, goto a YouTube video and select the following:
• Click: “SHARE”
• Click: “Embed”
• Click: “COPY”
• Paste the code into the “Insert Plugin” po-up. You may modify the width and height attributes in the code before clicking “Next” and following the prompts.
4.3 Adding Other Third-Party Widgets
In addition to RSS feeds and YouTube videos, you are required to source other third-party widgets that you can include on your own Wiki. A simple Google search will lead you to different possibilities.
Typically, the website where you will find the widget will include instructions forgetting the widget code and embedding it in your site. Once you find the widget code that you would like to embed in yourWiki site, click Insert->HTML/JavaScript in the text editor in the page where you want the widget(s) to appear. This will
prompt again the “Insert Plugin” pop-up window where you paste the widget’scode.
Please note that some widgets may not work as expected on the PBworks platform. Finding a suitable widget will require some trial-and-error and experimentation on your part.
