Some Instructions for the Workgroup projects for Music 108.

1. First, visit the class POLIS site and sign yourself up for one of the groups. 
2. Once you have between 5-10 members, you should begin working. Your goal is to produce at least one study-guide for your group's principal topic. In this guide you will indicate subtopics, some fundamental questions and preliminary answers, a survey of resources: including books, web sites, audio recording, video recordings, and when applicable, other information sources (spokespeople, performance venues, performing groups, etc.).
3. You should probably begin your group work with some kind of brain-storming session where you share your reasons for joining this group (i.e., why are you attracted to this topic?), and what experience (if any) you may have with the topic or some aspect of it.
4. Continue brainstorming by identifying a set of sub-themes or sub-topics. How many ways can you approach this topic?
5. Decide which sub-themes most interest you and divide into teams according to those interests.
6. Within each team, decide who will identify and evaluate bibliographic resources, who will identify and evaluate pertinent web-sites, who will locate audio resources (Cds, tapes), and who will identify and evaluate video (or other visually-oriented) resources.
7. Enter your findings using the on-line Webliography, Bibliography links on your group's workbench. Set up new resource links as necessary. Be sure to accompany each entry with an annotation indicating you view of the resources utility. Tell readers the source will enable them to do, or why you have included it in your list.
8. As you gather materials, you will refine your perspectives on this topic. Begin to compile a summary of principal perspectives regarding your topic. Discuss your findings with the others in the group, and appoint someone to catalogue these basic perspectives.
9. Enter your findings onto a "Work-in-Progress" summary page. We'll try to post these "work-in-progress" pages on the "Student generated Websites" link, so that others in the class can profit from your thoughts.
10. As you near the end of your work time, brainstorm again about how to collate and package your findings for a final study guide.
11. Prepare the final study guide, save it to disk (or send it to me on-line). Submit this final report by April 28. We will post the final guides and publish them on our "Student Generated Websites" section.