Digital Commons Projects:
I have created a website for our course to improve our collaboration as a “learning commons” in the digital space. I believe that this will lighten your workload for a course that contains a lot of new information. We will collaborate on a timeline and map to help you find your way in time and space, and shared summaries of each chapter will help you to quickly grasp the key information and it makes sure we all work from the same common knowledge base. To that end, I need to add you to the website as “authors”.
To protect your privacy and anonymity online, you may create an alternate online persona, using a username and (if required) e-mail address that does not identify you, for registering a user/author on the course website.
If despite these options, you still feel uncomfortable contributing to the Digital Commons for privacy reasons, please come and talk to me. We can find a way to help you fulfill the requirements for this course in a different way.
You remain the author of your work. At the end of the semester, you should create a copy of your work (e.g. the HTML code of the summary blog post, or the datasheet for the timeline), because it will be removed from the website and server before the next iteration of this course, and you will lose access as an “author” when I clean out the Users of the website.
As the website administrator, the final editorial and legal responsibility of the site contents lies with me, so I ask that you do not use materials (e.g. images) that infringe copy-right of a third party, or violate the Electronic Communications and Information Technology Access Policy of the College. If you do, I will request you to amend your work by a set deadline. If you do not amend your work, I will have to take it down.
