Sunday, April 2, 2017

Week Five: Free Culture, Commons-based Peer Production

Class 

PART I

1. Screening the documentary Killswitch: https://archive.org/details/Killswitch_201701.
    For details about the film, see THIS HANDOUT.

2. a) Discuss: Documentary, Open content/Open access, Free culture movement, Commons-based peer production, .
 Examples of Open Access Projects 
Project Gutenberg: a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, open formats. 
The Internet Archive: a nonprofit digital library that  provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.  Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains over 150 billion web captures
     b) Watch: Creative Commons, "Get Creative": https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/
Examples of Commons-based Peer Production: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production#Examples

PART II



3. Join: Our Wikipedia class  https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/LaGuardia_Community_College/ENG103_The_Research_Paper_Digital_Literacy_(Spring_2017)

4.  Complete: Two Wikipedia training modules "Wikipedia Essentials" and "Editing Basics": https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students


For Wednesday, April 19 at 9:00AM
  1. Complete all Journal Entries in your GoogleDrive document. Remember we are writing these in reverse order. 
  2. Decide on up to 3 tentative topics for your Research Essay (approximately 12 pages) and post them to your GoogleDrive document.
  3. Decide on up to 3 tentative topics for your Wikipedia work and post them to your GoogleDrive document.