UVU:Community Portal
Welcome to our course wiki.
Thank you for your registration. Please register with at least 2 names, one should be your historical figure (if you know it yet) and the other an anonymous alias which allows you to peer review your fellow students' articles without making them angry.Root 00:48, 10 December 2011 (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.