Ecological Psychology

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Ecological Psychology

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Note: This is a private wiki for the use Dr. Mills' students only.

Peak Oil related:

*Evolutionary psychology and peak oil: A Malthusian inspired "heads up" for humanity

*PeakOilPreparation.com

1 Class Projects
2 Work due every week
3 General writing and editing guidelines
4 Wiki editing information
5 Collaborating with classmates
6 Some research source materials available from Dr. Mills
7 List of contributors and their portfolios

Class Projects

Book wiki -- a wiki book written for the layperson, with rich graphics and links to additional resources. Again, use general wikipedia formatting (see below for links with information about this), except use APA referencing style for references in the text, and in the reference list.

Note: Your contributions to the book will be evaluated using this rating sheet.

Note: The two assignments below will not be required for the Spring, 2009 class:

Class blog -- add your blog posts to the top of the blog post page (also, add it to your portfolio page).
Your blog posts can be just about anything you want to write that is relevant to our topics. Your posts might include a running narrative of your personal reactions to what your are learning, your opinions about things, a brief review of an article or book you found interesting, additional material that you wrote that was not included in the wiki because it was too detailed or too specific, etc. And, any combination of the above. You can blog about pretty much anything you want. You can even blog about others' blog posts. So, tap into your creativity. This blog is open to the web, so don't include personal information that you do not want the entire world to have access to.

Panel Presentations-- See the link for instructions. Note: For this class, you will not have to create a readings "cliff notes" summary. Also, for the article (or chapter) summary, you will not need to create an article summary or outline. Otherwise, follow the instructions as noted.

Work due every week

DUE DATES:

Saturday, 5pm:

1. Email me your topic proposal. It should be a narrowly
focused topic, but within the general topic we are
covering that week. Do your scholar.google.com
search using specific keywords for your topic. You
can also include a couple of articles published in
popular literature as well (see, for example, findarticles.com)

2. I will email you back asap with my ok, or with suggestions

3. Once you get my ok, copy your proposal to your wiki book
page under the appropriate contribution number.

http://drmills.wiki-site.com/index.php/Ecological_Psychology#List_of_contributors_and_their_portfolios

Tuesday, midnight:

1. Post the first draft of your contribution on your personal
wiki page. I will grade it and give you feedback on Wednesday
before class. Talk to me before/after class if you have
any questions re revisions

http://drmills.wiki-site.com/index.php/Ecological_Psychology#List_of_contributors_and_their_portfolios

Friday, 5pm:

1. Post your revised contribution on your personal wiki page
I will re-grade it asap.

http://drmills.wiki-site.com/index.php/Ecological_Psychology#List_of_contributors_and_their_portfolios

Saturday, 5pm:

1. Integrate your contribution into the relevant section of the
wiki book.

http://drmills.wiki-site.com/index.php/SECTION_3

2. Edit the entire section of the wiki book for better

Again, your task is simply not to cut and paste your contribution.
Instead, you are responsible for integrating your contribution
so the entire section has a logical organization, there is no
redundancy, and the reading flows easily.

Edit the entire section -- feel free to delete what you
consider to be redundant or extraneous information, and
edit for grammar and readability. Do this in one editing
session.

When you are finished, scroll down in the outer window and
click "Save".

Click on the "History" tab at the top, and then click on
the "Compare selected versions" button.

You will see a window that shows all of the edits you have
made. Go to the top of your web browswer and copy the
entire web address of this page to the clipboard.

Now, on the left column of the webpage, click on Main Page.

Click on "Ecological Psychology"

Click on the Contents item "List of contributors and their portfolios"

Click on your name.

Click "edit"

After your revised contribution, add this text:

Revisions to the wiki book topic:

and paste the web address you copied to the clipboard here

Scoll down in the outer window, and click "Save"

I will review, and grade, your edits of the wiki book section.

3. As per the above, email me your proposal for the next writing topic.

General writing and editing guidelines

Your writing contributions will be evaluated by these criteria:
- discovered, integrated and synthesized relevant information about the topic
- critical analysis of information (of both corroborating and non-corroborating evidence)
- conclusions based on evidence, especially empirical evidence, not simply opinion
- written in an impartial, objective tone
- the contribution fits in well with the existing outline and material
- writing is of high quality: interesting, flows, analytic, good argumentation, organized
- used APA style referencing appropriately (including reference list)

For the wiki book only:
- included relevant graphics (tables, histograms, photos, etc.).
- included a list of relevant external web links for more information (add at the bottom of the section you are editing)

To retain formatting when you copy and paste material from one place to another:

When you copy and paste from one place to another on the wiki to another (e.g., from your Portfolio to the wiki book or class blog) you need to copy the Wikitext, rather than the WYSIWYG text (which will lose formatting). To see the wiki text, click on the Edit button at the top of the wiki page from which you want to copy material. Click on the "Wikitext" button. Copy the material to the clipboard. Go to the wiki page where you want to paste the material. Click on the Edit button, click on the "Wikitext" button, and the paste the material in the appropriate section.

How to insert images:

All images (graphics, diagrams, photos, etc.) must reside externally to this wiki. Do not upload any images here. Instead, insert the full web address of the web image you would like to insert. To find the full web address of an external image on another website that you would like to insert, go to the website that has the image, right click on the image, and then click "Copy Image Location" (in Windows -- I'm not sure how to do this on a Mac...). This will copy the the full web address of the image to your clipboard. You can then paste it to the wiki page you are editing. (If you have a photo or graphic that you have created yourself, you will need to upload it to another website (.e.g, flicr.com, etc.), and then link to it.)

For example, to insert the image below, I simply copied the full web address of the image (note, you will need to click the "Edit" button to the above right, then click the "Wikitext" button above to see the actual web address of the source image, instead of the image itself):

An extinct yeast colony with poor ecological management skills

Source: drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm

Immediately below the image, indicate the Source: the website page of the image (but without the name of the image itself). Use the wiki formatting code to do this properly (click on the "Wikitext" button above to see the wikitext code). If you have trouble with linking to the source web page, at least include the link that is as close as possible to the web page where the image resides.

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