UVU:Community Portal

Welcome to this UVU wiki - How to register for peer review.

Welcome. There is a detailed, step-by-step introduction at the end of this page. In short: Please register with at least 2 user names, one should be your real name (first name and initial of last name, like "Mike G") and the other an anonymous alias (peer1, peer2 ...) which allows you to peer review without making anyone upset about anyone. Direct Link to conference peer review section. There, please click on "create account" at the top right corner. Root 00:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

For students: You do not have access to the conference peer review section, but you can register in this public UVU wiki with both, your real name and an anonymous alias by clicking on "create account" at the top right corner of this public UVU wiki.Root 18:43, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Please sign everything

you write (the article on your historical figure, your comments to others, your entries here) with "~ ~ ~ ~" (without spaces). Wiki will turn that into your alias name and set a time stamp there. Thanks! It looks like this then: Root 18:43, 7 October 2011 (UTC) - the time indicated is a universal time since people might contribute from different time zones

How to write an article?

Just type in your new article title into the search field and press "Go" (not "Search"). You will get a response side stating that your article does not yet exist. Then you click on "create this article" and start to write. You may post your notes. Don't forget to click on "save". You may post your "reading in turn" notes with a 3rd name as long as you do not know your historical figure. Use MLA citation style when citing within your wiki articles, here are examples:

“The actor is acting like wild” (Geoffrey 2010:I 221)

References

Geoffrey, Peter, When kids go crazy, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2010, 2 vols., 517 pp., ISBN 9780744343252

or for journal articles:

“Is this still cinema or is it already part of our lives?” (McAllister 2012:43-46)

References

McAllister, Humphrey, “Interactive movies with dynamic plots – custom-made virtual reality”, in: Computer Science (2012) vol. 3, no. 12, pp. 17-49

or for films:

Wong Kar-wai 2011

References

Wong Kar-wai: The Moon is more round in China than in America, 2011

How to upload and integrate media like pictures, powerpoint presentations etc.

You may upload pictures, powerpoint presentations etc. by clicking on Special:Upload. Please always quote the photographer/sources and only use images from creative common or GNU license pages, e.g. from Wikimedia or from the royalty-free part of the platform Flickr. Just copy the source code lines of other Wiki articles to see how you integrate pictures. You may also click on the "image" symbol on top of the Editing window. Root 00:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Free online tools to learn Chinese

The internet is full of sources to learn Chinese. This Wiki article gives an overview and evaluates the offers. It is a team project by students of the class "Beginning Chinese I" at Utah Valley University.

Disclaimer, legal notice and consent to anonymous use of contributions

This website is subject to changes, since it may be edited by students and the instructor any time. The authors of this course website are not responsible or liable for the accuracy of content of third parties linked to from this website. If corrections or possibilities of enhancement are brought to the instructor's attention, he will try to apply them. By contributing to the website, the instructor and each student declares his/her consent, that his/her contributions can be used anonymously for updated versions of courses, for thematically related other courses and as teaching material by the teacher or as part of a paedagogical or research discourse as long as an amelioration or enrichment of teaching / research results is intended. Full student names are only given if teacher and students jointly agree on it, e.g. when a wiki article is written for the purpose of publication and the name is accessible. Anyone who does not want his/her contributions to be part of this paedagogical or scholarly discourse and/or publication has the right to withdraw his/her consent any time until the end of the term when the course took place by notice to the instructor.

Step-by-step introduction how to write a Wiki article

Write a Wiki article step by step Martin Woesler, 1/7/2013 1. Go to http://wiki.vm.rub.de/uvu/ 2. Click on the top right corner “Log in / create account” 3. Click on “Create an account” 4. Type in your Wiki-Username (First name, understroke, initial of last name, e.g. “Jason_D”), a Wiki-password, retype the password, E-Mail, Real name 5. Now you see on the top right corner, that you are logged in with your Username (if it does not appear, go to “Log in” again and login with your username and password. 6. You can now start your own article or comment on others. To start your own article, first locate the place where you want to write it. It best fits as a sub page of the course page. 7. Go to the course content page first: Click on “Main Page” on the left side. You see a list of courses. Click on your course (Modern/Traditional History/Literature/Film). 8. Scroll down the content to the place where your article fits in. Remember the article on top of it (e.g. “Were Spaghetti invented in China?”). 9. Now scroll up again and click on “edit”. The website now changes, it looks like unformatted text. Don’t get confused. This is the same website, our course content website. 10. Scroll down until you find the article you want to add your own article beneath (here: “Were Spaghetti invented in China?”):

• Were Spahetti invented in China (ca. 280 BC – 233 BC) -- Peter_S 01:15, 07 January 2013 (UTC)

11. Copy the entry of the Spaghetti article that it appears two times.

• Were Spahetti invented in China (ca. 280 BC – 233 BC) -- Peter_S 01:15, 07 January 2013 (UTC)
• Were Spahetti invented in China (ca. 280 BC – 233 BC) -- Peter_S 01:15, 07 January 2013 (UTC)

12. Now replace the old title with your new one (let’s say you want to write about if Marco Polo ever was in China) and replace the old user’s name by your signature tag “161.28.2.137 11:37, 10 January 2013 (UTC)”:

• Were Spahetti invented in China (ca. 280 BC – 233 BC) -- Peter_S 01:15, 07 January 2013 (UTC)
• Did Marco Polo ever arrive in China (Historical evidence and scholarly debate) 161.28.2.137 11:37, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

13. Now scroll down and click on “Save”. Your article is now listed in the contents list, it appears red, indicating it is not yet written. 14. Click on the red link “Did Marco Polo...”. A new, blank article appears. 15. Type something in to start writing the article. A normal article would have at least 7 screen pages, is well structured and has fact sections as well as sections indicating that you have an overview, can come to conclusions and have your own opinion. Click on save. You may come back to this article later any time by following the steps above. Here are some tipps how to write the article: 16. Indicate after each sentence or paragraph the source. You may write (Smith 2009:43-44) and beneath make a section with references and then write Smith 2009: John Smith, Facts and Fiction about Marco Polo, Bloomington Press N.Y. 2009, 128 pp. Another Wikipedia article is not a valid source. If you do not indicate a source, I assume it is your own idea. 17. Add headers and subheaders: "= Biography =" "== Early life ==" "== Career ==" "=== Literary career ===" "=== Career as a merchant ===" "= Works =" "= References =" (without quotation marks) Uploads (pictures, powerpoints, prezis) 18. Upload your powerpoint presentation. If you upload a prezi presentation, it must be the original file (about 20 MB). Click on “Special Pages” on the left side and then “Upload”. 19. Add and upload creative common or GNU licensed pictures to your article, e.g. from Wikimedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ or from the royalty-free part of the platform Flickr http://www.flickr.com/search/?l=4. Indicate the sources like in other Wiki articles, see http://wiki.vm.rub.de/uvu/index.php/Gong_Li for reference. 20. Don’t forget to log out. Comments 21. If you want to make a comment on a peer’s Wiki article, please follow the steps above, but create an anonymous username instead (e.g. “Flash_Gordon”). Please indicate your real name for grading. The real name will not be visible to anybody except from the teacher. 22. On the course contents page, click on the article you want to comment upon. 23. On the top, click on “Discussion”. 24. Just write your comment and don’t forget to make sure that you are logged in with your anonymous alias, not with your real name, and sign with “~ ~ ~ ~” (without spaces). The comment then appears with your alias. Please also watch for comments on your Wiki article from time to time and reflect that you have read the comments by improving your article. 25. Don’t forget to log out.