Author Archives: Sarah Marie Franzen

Final Project: course website

For the final project I’ve been working to create a course website: https://foodsystems2foodsovereignty.wordpress.com

Right now the content is still missing, and I’m not satisfied yet with the layout.  My main concern was to create an online space to support a variety of assignments.  Some of this functionality you will not be able to see, but the site is linked to wikispaces.  Through this, I can divide students into groups and provide them with pages to work on a debate assignment.  This way each team can work together, but the other teams can’t see their work.  So far it seems to work, but does require students to register to both sites in order to gain full functionality.  I’m wondering if this can be simplified.  I am also using the wikispaces links to set up a course dictionary for the students (like a wiki page).  The word press site will be used to contain the syllabus, announcements, a course blog, and a course photo blog.  I’m still trying to figure out a way to simplify these different functions and perhaps will have one site by the time I teach this course.