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Welcome to the TWiki.SI504
This is a web-based collaboration space for SI504 students. SI504 Web is just one part of a larger TWiki used by students and faculty at the School of Information. In the left navigation, you can see a list of other Webs in the TWiki. Each Web is its own tangle of WikiWords, users, topics, etc. This Web is designed to be a place for 504 students to discuss their readings and topics.Need help getting started?
- TWikiRegistration is a good place to start. Once you've registered as a new user, you will be able to view and edit pages on the Twiki.
- TWiki is a list of wiki how-tos and helps. It's always available for reference as TWiki in the Webs section of the left frame.
- Make sure you know what WikiWords are. (They'll come in handy.)
- WebChanges is a great way to see what updates have been made to TWiki.
General SI504 Web Tools
Midterm Review Session Notes: 504MidtermReview.doc
MichaelCohen, PaulEdwards, NikhilSharma, AirongLuo?, and LibbyHemphill are the 504 instructors for Fall 2005. Clicking on any of their names will take you to his/her userpage in the Main Web of this TWiki. When you register, you"ll have pages of your own, which you can then edit, if you choose. InOtherPlaces is a list of readings, institutions, etc, outside 504 that you might find interesting. None of these readings or activities are required; if you run across something in another class or with your research group or at work that you think 504 students might find interesting, please post here.| Week Number | Topic and Readings |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction: How do collections and social systems relate to information? (ODonnellAvatars is among the readings here, along with BucklandInfoAsThing and BrownSocialLifeInfo.) |
| Week 2 | Collections are what information professionals design, build and maintain. (Readings: GrudinGroupware8Challenges , ThomassenArchivalScience?, CarrCulturalInstitutions?, HarrisRecordsInSouthAfrica) |
| Week 3 | Collections have life cycles and information flows, within and between social systems (Readings: LessigFreeCulture, HalemHighCapacityStorage?, WilenskyDigitalLibraryTools, BrandClockLongNow.) |
| Week 4? | Information professionals use formal principles to organize collections (audience, provenance, genre).* (Readings: BegtholConceptOfGenre, BowkerStarSortingThingsOut? |
| Week 5 | Social Systems produce value through coordination and control.* (Readings: SimonSciencesOfTheArtificial?, YatesControlThroughCommunication?, BenigerControlRevolution? |
| Week 6 | Collections support memory of social systems.* (Readings: MiddletonEdwardsCollectiveRemembering, ArgoteOrganizationalLearning |
| Week 7 | Human behavior is guided by habit, emotion and cognition, and social systems reflect these human capacities at the collective level.* (Readings: NelsonWinterEvolutionaryTheoryOfEconomicChange) |
| ShortAssignmentInstitutionMatch | Go there to select an institution to observe.* (Readings : Appendix B CarrCulturalInstitutions?) * NOTE: Saturday Sept 24 is Wander Washtenaw day, and a number of the cultural institutions listed are open for free. For a list of the participating organizations, please see Washtenaw County History : Events |
| Week 8 | Social Systems provide the resources to keep collections "alive".* Readings: JanesIPLBroke ; CLIRreport ; BowkerKnowledgeEconomy ) |
| Week 9 | |
| Week 10 | Technology is both cause and effect of social phenomena.* Readings: EdwardTenner? |
| Week 11 | MIT OCW Review |
| Week 12 | Information professionals connect collections and social systems. This often involves difficult choices.* |
Site Tools of the SI504 Web
- PageTemplates504: These are blank versions of standard pages, such as a page for discussing a reading. They can be copied and pasted when editing a new page of the same type. Add more as they become needed! Reachable also from left menubar.
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| I | Attachment  | Action | Size | Date | Who | Comment |
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 | 504MidtermReview.doc | manage | 48.5 K | 20 Oct 2005 - 14:43 | LibbyHemphill | Midterm Review Session Notes |
| | midterm_notes.doc | manage | 43.5 K | 20 Oct 2005 - 22:21 | NikaSmith | Nika's midterm notes. Read'em and weep. |
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