Hi everyone!

Soon you should be hearing from the member of the tech committee in your group about how the website is going to take shape.

For Monday, you’ll be submitting the rough draft text for your topic of the website. All you need to do for this is to submit the text, but if you know you are going to be using specific images or video, you can embed that too. Within your group, you have to decide how you’re going to present your topic. Are you going to write a few different short essays/articles? Are you going to write one long story? Are you going to have an introduction and then a number of case studies? The choices are up to you. The point of this is to see where you’re at and for Prof. Rosenberg and I to make suggestions for you as we move ahead with the project. This is not final — this should be a chance for you to figure out how to organize your interviews, your individual research, and your media.

As a group, you should decide before Monday what you’re going to submit and who is going to submit it. If everyone in your group is writing their own mini article/essay, then everyone should submit one individually. If you are only writing one piece of text as a group, then only one person needs to submit it (indicate all group members in the file).
You’ll be submitting your text as either a .doc or .docx to the Halal Carts website by using the “Documents” feature. This is a feature that will allow you to store files on the dashboard and then work on them together, I will show you more about it next Wednesday. For Monday…
  1. Go to the dashboard of the Halal Carts website (http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/halalcarts). If you’re not a member of the site yet, you’ll have to join by clicking the “Add Me” button on the left hand side, and then have your tech committee person make you an administrator.
  2. On the left side, you’ll see “Documents”
  3. Click “Add Document”
  4. Under title, be sure to indicate which group you are (city, cooks2, owners, etc.)
  5. Under “Visibility” on the right hand side, you must select “Public” or else we can’t see it!
  6. Select “rough draft” from the “workflow state” dropdown menu.
  7. Upload new version, and then click the green “Update” button
  8. Make sure you bring your laptops, charged, to class on Monday!

Especially now that we’re working on the website as a class, please reach out and ask me any questions you might have. One thing I told the tech committee people today: it almost always takes a lot longer to do something that you think when you are creating a website, so be sure that the work is divided evenly within your group, and be sure to Start. Things. Early!

-Jake