Several people asked for us to provide a homework exercise to give people a chance to practice what we covered in our last session. So, we've come up with this fairly simple set of tasks for everyone to do before we meet next Tuesday. Altogether, it shouldn't take more than 45mins at most.
1. Think of a question you'd like the rest of the group to answer.
2. Log in to Google docs (http://docs.google.com) and create a new document with this question in it.
3. Invite me (jtauber@usyd.edu.au) to collaborate on the document, and I'll invite a few of other members of the group to respond to your question.
4. Naturally, you yourself will get an invitation or two from me to contribute to other people's documents.
5. Once you've got your invitations, open up those documents and answer the questions that others have written for you.
6. Here's the twist: on one of those documents, instead of answering questions, your job will be to vandalise the page in some way by adding or deleting text, moving paragraphs or words around, adding an unconnected image, inappropriate highlighting etc.
7. Keep an eye on your own document, undo the vandalism – using the Revisions function – and deny the vandal access to your document – by removing them from the list of collaborators.
In order to get this activity completed before our workshop, it's important that people set aside a little time tomorrow to create their google document, and send me an invitation.
If you have any problems, let me know.