Welcome
Photo by T. Smith, 2009
Hello, I'm Dr. Tania Smith, instructor of COMS 463: Advanced Professional and Technical Communication, a course at the University of Calgary. If you are a visitor to this site, see About COMS 463.
Our course's service-learning website project in Winter 2010 was to create the best website content & designs for a student website on community service-learning (CSL) at the University of Calgary.
The content of students' websites (listed in the upper right corner) consists largely of journalistic articles based on 1) interviews and 2) reviews of former CSL students' assignments that were formally donated to us for publication.
We started by profiling Arts faculty people, projects & partnerships, but we also interviewed CSL students and instructors from several other faculties: Haskayne school of Business, Education, Social Work, and Engineering to name a few.
About Us
Our Instructional Team consisted of
- Dr. Tania Smith (instructor)
- Carmen Groza (Learning Coach)
- Buffy St-Amand and Zoe Fleming
(Volunteer Calgary)
- Erin Kaipainen (University of Calgary)
The service-learning project was carried out by 5 teams of 4-5 students each led by student Editorial Coordinators enrolled in the course: Bryan, Heather, Jen, Kristen, Michele and Natasha.
Dr. Smith has taught many of her courses using service-learning methods since 2003, in courses COMS 363, 463, GNST 313, and GNST 507/509. This was her 6th time guiding a service-learning website development or usability testing project, but the first time using Google Sites & Wordpress Blogs.
Photo of a previous year's team, COMS 407 & 501.32 T. Smith's 2009 research & website teamPhoto: Ken Bendiksten, UToday April 14
| Student Team Websites
- Heather and team: Experiencing CSL
- Kristen and Michele: CSL at U of Calgary
- Bryan and team: A Place for Dialogue about CSL
- Jen, Alee and team: The Nature of CSL
- (team 5 merged with team 2)
- Natasha and team: Changing Lives & Perspectives
See our blogs & sites page for a list of all team & individual sites that were constructed.
Photo by Ken Bendiksten, U of Calgary
Announcements
What changes were made to this website?
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New Header & Navigation
I have added a new header with a bigger U Of C logo. I've also reorganized the navigation bar.
Posted Apr 20, 2010 9:09 AM by Tania Smith
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Expert Feedback Audio April 7
Audio clips with brief descriptions of each theme they cover are now posted In Bb Course documents
Posted Apr 8, 2010 12:23 AM by Tania Smith
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4 new Google Sites tips
See the Google Sites Design page for areas labeled "New" http://sites.google.com/site/coms463w10/assignments/project-management/google-sites-design
Posted Apr 7, 2010 2:28 PM by Tania Smith
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Your final team site links now on home page
Links to your final websites are now on the front page of this COMS 463 course website, in the upper right corner.
Posted Apr 7, 2010 2:27 PM by Tania Smith
Project Updates
What stages did we go through in our projects and learning?
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Editing sites and preparing presentations
Teams are busy preparing their power points, handouts, and still working on their websites. Last week M-F I spent at least 10 hours communicating with teams outside of class ...
Posted Apr 12, 2010 12:37 AM by Tania Smith
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Expert review days
Websites are really shaping up now. This week Erin and Buffy visited our classes to provide feedback on the current drafts of the sites. Among other things, we learned about ...
Posted Apr 9, 2010 10:59 AM by Tania Smith
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Planning our April 14 presentation
A week ago, Erin and Buffy and I met with Rosalie Pedersen at the Teaching and Learning Center to plan our event, which will take place April 14, 2010 from ...
Posted Mar 27, 2010 4:56 AM by Tania Smith
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