Participation Grade: Helping & Getting Help from Other Students

Part of your participation grade (see syllabus) for this course will be based on whether you help other students.

Several of you have gotten you news aggregators and links lists set up, and so you're in a prime position to share your knowledge. I am going to list your names below, and I encourage those of you who get stuck to contact one of these people for help.

If you help someone over IM, email, or phone, let me know about it so I can give you credit. I'll also give credit to the person seeking help (who contacts another student instead of me).

For those of you not in a position to help out this week, there will be ample opportunity to do so on future assignments. Another way you can fulfill your participation requirement is simply to post a tutorial on your study guide blog for others to see. Perhaps you might want to clarify some of my instructions in your own post, or post about a way you found to set up a news aggregator or links list that is easier than the way I recommend. Handy tips or tricks qualify.

[If you've set up your news aggregator and / or links list and you don't see you name below, that's because there's something about it that needs to be fixed.]

Help with Pluck (best news aggregator for PC):

• Stephanie Summers

Help with Bloglines (online news aggregator / links list maker):

• Lauren Cummins
• Liz Pastore
• Imbar Lawrence
• Elizabeth Rodriguez
• Courtney-Leigh Kelly
• Cynthia Ganiere
• Melissa Mendoza
• Elizabeth Rodriguez

Help with building a links lists manually (or adding non Atom / RSS enabled websites to your links list):

• Danielle Armstrong
• Elizabeth McElligott
• Beth Benedum
• Kim Studer

Help with Blogrolling (online links list maker that makes links to any site [even those without Atom or RSS):

• Sunny Tsui