www.cs.amherst/~ccm/fys-internet/news.html

FYS 22 Internet Controversies

The FYS 22 Internet News Service

The Amherst College Library has online subscriptions to several national newspapers, listed here: (Library Home/Research and Using the Library/News). You are welcome to use other sources, but be sure the text can be accessed by other students in the class.

The list below assigns you a remaining week in the semester (2-3 students per week). When your assigned week arrives, please scan online newspapers for articles that are relevant to this course. For each article you find, add an entry to the FYS News Page with a link to that article. Try to keep the articles organized neatly under the topic headings that I have provided. You must add your entry within 24 hours of the last day assigned to you.

Your contribution to the class Wikki will count 20 points towards your ``class participation'' grade. Please post at least two relevant articles from the week's news; each post will get the full 10 points (maximum total 20 points) if it is relevant and useful (to another student in the class who might be writing a paper on the subject). Additional articles are fine, but please don't spam us -- be selective.

Here are the weekly assignments. The project stops 10 days before classes end, so you can incorporate this information into your third paper.

• Oct 14-20. Carolina Alegria, Gavin Carson
• Oct 21-27. Alicia Ciccone, William (Ryan) Colby
• Oct 28-Nov 3. Oliver Davis, Cristina Ferrari
• Nov 4-10. Reggie Fugett, Kyaria Holmes, Bill Yochum
• Nov 11-17. Ester Johansson-Lebron, Thea Lamkin-Carughi, Emil Vasilev
• Nov 25-Dec 1. Tom McClintock, Chris Temerson, David Vaimberg.

How to Edit the FYS News Page

• Log on to your My Amherst account, and click on the course title: Internet Controversies.

• You should see FYS News Page on the list on the left-hand side of the page. Click on that box.

• Here is the FYS News Page! I have set the permissions so you can edit this page. Have your articles (and links) handy before you start. It may be helpful to open up two browser windows, one showing this FYS News page and the other to display the news articles you want to add.

• To edit the page, go to the bottom and click Edit. You now see a little scroll window that allows you to edit the text of the page. Scroll to find the bullet item (the dot) for the category you want, push the Enter key to get a new bullet, and type in the text for your entry.

• You can add a link to the article by highlighting the text where you want the link to go (select it with your mouse), and then clicking the little ``add-link'' icon (looks like this ). A box pops up. Type the article URL into the Link URL box. If you are looking at the article in a second browser window, you can just cut-and-paste the URL from the other browser window (the URL is at the top of the browser), into this little box. Be sure to include the http:// part.

• When you are finished editing, click on Submit at the bottom of the page (or Preview it if you like).

• Send me an email if you have problems getting it to work.