This is an electronic encylopedia of rhetoric that started out as part of a Historical Foundations of Rhetoric class. If you want to post an entry, request access. Tell us what you want to write about.
Is there a planned/in progress "VIEW" mode so that one could see the completed pages, with included links, that are relevant? The only thing I can find is the "pages&Files" link which shows all files, including images seperate from content, and links to how to reserve a projector for the classroom.
On the right side of my screen I can see a window called "Recent Activity" that has links to files in progress. If you can see that, click on The Sophists.
Well yea - it is a picture of the people with unreadable word bubbles. And I can't just click on it - I have to search for "more" recent activity because it hasn't been modified recently. Wouldn't it be nice to have a page labeled "Index" that contained a link to the source pages for listings in progress? e.g.
Index
(click on a listing to see that page)
Socrates
Isocrates
The Early Sophists
Dialectic
Right now, we have a listing of pictures (multiple copies) and five entries for Cleisthenes.
I created my entry - it is a timeline of key people we have been talking about. Perhaps this could serve as a link base for pages on individual people, or concepts those people were famous for developing/using.
Dr. Pullman, you mentioned in class about how you are unsure of the longevity of the project, once completed. I would suggest leaving the site up - as a whole. Make a "front page" with an index - linking to each completed page in an organized way:
Sophistic Rhetoric
Gorgias
Eros and Pederasty
etc.
Socratic Dialectic
Rules for Dialectic (take these from our assignments)
Socrates
"Arete" in Socratic Dialogues
etc.
The front page serves as an index to organize, topically, all pages that have been constructed. Then, next time you teach the class, the students could ADD new pages, and modify or comment on our pages, and so on. Given time, and organization from you at the macro level - this could be an excellent public resource for students in rhetoric. Other universities have created similar ones that probably started off as the project of a single professor or student but have become longstanding collaborative enclyclopedias, like the Internet Ency of Rhetoric or University of Michigan's "Rhetoric Online," which began as a collabortive wiki in 2004.
It will never be comprehensive - but will likely include thoughts, comments, and perspectives that Wikipedia doesn't have, and that other online resources don't have yet. Adding it as a resource would be hugely beneficial in the long run, I think, for both future students, for past ones who have gone on to live professional research lives, and for the general public (1 guy) with an interest in rhetoric.
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Comments (12)
Jeanne Bohannon said
at 12:04 pm on Aug 18, 2009
I would like to grab an entry -- Isocrates and his affinity for memory and delivery.
George Pullman said
at 12:09 pm on Aug 18, 2009
Create a new page called Isocrates
jamiso_t@... said
at 8:29 am on Aug 19, 2009
Can I create an entry about the Sophists? Do I need to focus more?
jousas@... said
at 5:25 pm on Sep 8, 2009
Is there a planned/in progress "VIEW" mode so that one could see the completed pages, with included links, that are relevant? The only thing I can find is the "pages&Files" link which shows all files, including images seperate from content, and links to how to reserve a projector for the classroom.
George Pullman said
at 7:10 pm on Sep 8, 2009
On the right side of my screen I can see a window called "Recent Activity" that has links to files in progress. If you can see that, click on The Sophists.
jousas@... said
at 9:32 am on Sep 9, 2009
Well yea - it is a picture of the people with unreadable word bubbles. And I can't just click on it - I have to search for "more" recent activity because it hasn't been modified recently. Wouldn't it be nice to have a page labeled "Index" that contained a link to the source pages for listings in progress? e.g.
Index
(click on a listing to see that page)
Socrates
Isocrates
The Early Sophists
Dialectic
Right now, we have a listing of pictures (multiple copies) and five entries for Cleisthenes.
Stephanie Abram said
at 9:41 am on Sep 9, 2009
I was doing a trial run to upload the pictures of Cleisthenes and it wouldn't let me delete them.
jousas@... said
at 10:15 am on Sep 9, 2009
Well yea - but Dr. Pullman probably has moderator clearance and can delete the multiples.
jousas@... said
at 11:24 am on Sep 21, 2009
I created my entry - it is a timeline of key people we have been talking about. Perhaps this could serve as a link base for pages on individual people, or concepts those people were famous for developing/using.
Thoughts?
jousas@... said
at 12:07 pm on Sep 24, 2009
Dr. Pullman, you mentioned in class about how you are unsure of the longevity of the project, once completed. I would suggest leaving the site up - as a whole. Make a "front page" with an index - linking to each completed page in an organized way:
Sophistic Rhetoric
Gorgias
Eros and Pederasty
etc.
Socratic Dialectic
Rules for Dialectic (take these from our assignments)
Socrates
"Arete" in Socratic Dialogues
etc.
The front page serves as an index to organize, topically, all pages that have been constructed. Then, next time you teach the class, the students could ADD new pages, and modify or comment on our pages, and so on. Given time, and organization from you at the macro level - this could be an excellent public resource for students in rhetoric. Other universities have created similar ones that probably started off as the project of a single professor or student but have become longstanding collaborative enclyclopedias, like the Internet Ency of Rhetoric or University of Michigan's "Rhetoric Online," which began as a collabortive wiki in 2004.
It will never be comprehensive - but will likely include thoughts, comments, and perspectives that Wikipedia doesn't have, and that other online resources don't have yet. Adding it as a resource would be hugely beneficial in the long run, I think, for both future students, for past ones who have gone on to live professional research lives, and for the general public (1 guy) with an interest in rhetoric.
Thoughts?
Chad Williams said
at 4:20 pm on Sep 28, 2009
Is there a way to change the title...the big I in CIcero is killing me.
jousas@... said
at 10:49 am on Sep 29, 2009
Dr Pullman - the fron page index is exactly what I had in mind. Thanks!
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