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Started by Jyrki Kuoppala
Wed, 09 Sep 1992 23:34
Study groups via UU
Author: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 23:34
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 23:34
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You've decided to learn about computer theory on your own, by reading books. You are going to an exam to get credits for the topic, and your university has a list of the issues required for the exam and a list of possible books to use. You want to use the Usenet University to help you. Here are some ideas on how to do this. 1. Forming a study group Announce your plan on the UU newsgroups (for example alt.uu.future and alt.uu.comp.misc) and ask if other people share some of your goals and are willing and able to use UU. Gather a group of people willing to learn the same subject - it won't be necessary for all to plan an exam to have, but sharing goals will help. Others should have access to books or other material on the topics - not necessarily the exact same books you have access to. 2. Negotiating how to study Compare requirements of the exams and goals, decide amongst the group what to cover in the group. This can be done on one of the UU groups - new participants might come in at this time, some might decide to not go with the group. Plan how to use the group - if keywords are used on subject lines, etc. Plan what each will do. Plan how you will divide work, what exactly are the goals of the project (ie. whether material for "later generations" will be produced or whether it'll be mostly throw-away discussions and summaries). Decide what tools to use, etc. 3. Proceeding with the group work Let's say you divide the topic to parts on which each people will at first write a short outline of the topic, have it commented by others and then proceed to write a longer summary of her part, possibly with exercises for others. Different people will have different books and approaches, so it is reasonable to have many persons on each fields. Discuss difficult topics, comment on other people's work. 4. Make a summary of the work done If you decided to go for writing lasting material for also others to use, edit the material produced together to fit in one document covering all of the topic area, archive it in one of the UU archives for later generations. 5. Make a report on the effort Write a summary on how the project went. Descibe weaknesses, what went wrong, what went well, what ideas came too late to implement, what pitfalls to avoid.
Literature study via UU
Author: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:16
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:16
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You have a book or a document - a work of fiction like Alice in Wonderland, a movie, the U.S. Constitution and the Federalist Papers, some Shakespeare - which is available as an etext via project Gutenberg, Open Book Initiative or some other way; ie, you and everyone with a network connection can get the work. You are willing to read the book but feel that you would benefit from having others to discuss it with, but none of your local friends are interested and none of the Usenet newsgroups exactly fit the topic - also, with a newsgroup you think you would have a problem of people being on different levels and not committed to reading and discussing the work. Here are some ideas on how to make UU help you. 1. Calling other interested people Announce your plan on the UU newsgroups (for example alt.uu.future and alt.uu.comp.misc) and ask if other people share some of your goals and are willing and able to use UU and get the work in question. Gather a group of people willing to commit to reading it - or at least refraining from confusing others if they get behind. 2. Negotiating the guidelines Plan how to discuss and what the "charter" of the discussion will be - ie. what will be the procedure to accept latecomers, whether there are specific deadlines, whether there's a specific goal and so on. There needn't be lots of red tape and it doesn't matter if the guidelines change in the process, but some commonly-accepted guidelines will help to keep the discussion together. This negiotiation can be done on one of the UU groups - new participants might come in at this time, some might decide to not go with the group. Plan how to use the group - if keywords are used on subject lines, etc. Decide whether any requirements are set for each to do or if it's just free-form discussion, and so on. 3. Proceeding with the study Proceed as planned, probably changing plans when doing so. As this is Usenet (or more exactly altnet), there probably will be some noise - just ignore the noise or email to people adding to the noise, there's no point in adding more noise to the group. 4. Make a report on the effort Write a summary on how the project went. Descibe weaknesses, what went wrong, what went well, what would be useful to do in a similar project laters, what pitfalls to avoid. //Jyrki
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