www.cs.amherst/~ccm/fys-internet/news.html
FYS 22 Internet Controversies
The FYS 22 Internet News Service
Lets make an Internet News Clipping Service Wikki! Everybody
gets to contribute at least two news articles that are relevant to topics
discussed in this course.
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.