Because Because of changes to Wetpaint, it seems, none of Semester A 2009 students doing this module have been able to gain access to the site by accepting the invitation sent by the module leader. This means we are going to have to change the way we use a wiki for the module. We need to be more cautious with the way we use the wiki

The wiki is going to be opened for one weeks to allow you to sign up for it. This means that all information on our wiki can be read by anybody rather being a private area on line, it can be visited by anybody.

Instead of using this wiki as a place to put coursework therefore, we will use it instead as a place to showcase the best work that students do for this module (with their permission) and as a quick link to information about the module.

You can also use it for collaboration and general social networking after everybody has signed up and the area can be made private again.

The site will be open for the next week to allow you to sign up using whatever user name and email address you works for you. Because the site is open for a week, you may want to hide your full identity but your study group members will need to be able to recognise the ID you choose so that they can invite you to be a 'friend'. This will make it possible for you to be notified of each other's activities. In this way the wiki will be a place for collaboration that is an alternative to UEL Plus.

If you have been using Facebook, you should find it fairly easy to use Wetpaint. Hopefully there will be somebody in each study group that will be able to work out how to use this space, but if there is not, and your group is having difficulty with it, do ask me for help with using Wetpaint. You can ask during lectures, you can send me an email in UEL Plus or you can send me a Wetpaint message. If need be we can have a hands on tutorial.