The e Tasks

Read the General Rules and Guidelines before commencing the tasks

• Task 1
  Log-on and post a short message on the e-BB under ‘theme/discussion topic’: "(1)Hello"
  Worth: N/A
  
  
• Task 2
  Publish your Small Exercise text (under ‘theme/discussion topic’: "(2)Small Exercise") and read and comment on at least one other student’s text by selecting ‘respond’ from the Toolbar. (Note: To enable this exercise to work, please post your text early and be prepared to log-on more than once this week).
  Worth: 1%
  
  
• Task 3
  Publish your critical analysis of the article "The Machine in Architectural Thinking" under theme/discussion topic’: "(3)Machine". (Please refer to the additional detailed specifications for this submission issued separately.)
  Worth: 5%
  
  
• Task 4
  With references to recent lectures, your current readings, and other students’ comments, contribute to one of the nominated themes/discussion topics (view ‘(4)Topical Discussions’). If none of the on-going discussion topics intrigues you, you may initiate a new ‘theme/discussion topic’ by posting under that heading a relevant and stimulating opening statement and/or question, duly resourced with
  supporting references, as above.
  Worth: 1%
  
  
• Task 5
  Same as e-task 4 (see above).
  Worth: 1%
  
  
• Task 6
  Publish the draft text you have presented for Esquisse 1 (under "Esquisse 1") and read and comment constructively on at least one other student’s text. (Note: this may oblige you to log-on more than once this week.)
  Worth 1%
  
  
• Task 7
  Publish your Project 1 text under "Project 1", and have a further careful look at all the exhibited 3-D compositions and texts on display in the Display Area on level 3.
  Worth: 1%
  
  
• Task 8
  Select a particularly successful submission for Project 1 other than your own (see wk 7 postings under "Project 1") and publish a ‘response’, critically articulating the strengths of your colleague’s project, with reference to its published text, the 3-D composition (see work exhibited in Display Area), and other relevant readings.
  Worth: 1%
  
  
• Task 9
  Contribute a critically informed commentary or question to at least one of the two tutorial presentation themes discussed in your tutorial session this week
  Worth: 1%
  
  
• Task 10
  Publish the draft text you have presented for Esquisse 2 (under "Esquisse 2") and read and comment constructively on at least one other student’s text. (Note: this may oblige you to log-on more than once this week.)
  Worth: 1%
  
  
• Task 11
  Contribute a critically informed commentary or question to at least one of the two tutorial presentation themes discussed in your tutorial session this week
  Worth: 1%
  
  
• Task 12
  Publish Project 2 text under "Project 2".
  Worth: 1%
  
  
• Final Task
  Review and supplement your contributions to the e-BB discussions over the course of the semester with further reference to the lectures and your self-directed research. Your final task is to compose and publish (under "Final") a concise but critically discerning ‘abstract’ presenting your own theory of the history of architecture/landscape architectural thinking in the 20th c, in approximately 400-600 words.
  Worth: 5%