the co-laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition

Obviously there is. But in the Symposium I don't see any links to any content. Will items such as Readings simply be attachments to an Instructor post (not very efficient in terms of going back to them later in the term), or is there a separate functionality for this?

I might also be interested to "kibbitz" on this symposium, but I would not want my humorous or provocative comments to intrude on the main discussion. Could I create a meta-symposium in which I could link to comments in the CHAT symposium and write responses which would only be visible to people I select (e.g. the instructors, and maybe any participants whose rep levels exceed some threshold)?

> Will items such as Readings simply be
> attachments to an Instructor post (not very efficient in terms
> of going back to them later in the term), or is there a
> separate functionality for this?

In the symposium there is an area in the right-hand column for "files" attached the symposium or various chapters. But this, I suspect, is not the ideal way of presenting this information. Nor do I think the whole interface for symposia is very good. It works better for conversations, but probably not symposia.

> I might also be interested to "kibbitz" on this symposium, but
> I would not want my humorous or provocative comments to
> intrude on the main discussion. Could I create a
> meta-symposium in which I could link to comments in the CHAT
> symposium and write responses which would only be visible to
> people I select (e.g. the instructors, and maybe any
> participants whose rep levels exceed some threshold)?

Yes, that could be done.

>> Will items such as Readings simply be
>> attachments to an Instructor post (not very efficient in terms
>> of going back to them later in the term), or is there a
>> separate functionality for this?
>

> In the symposium there is an area in the right-hand column for
> "files" attached the symposium or various chapters. But this,
> I suspect, is not the ideal way of presenting this
> information. Nor do I think the whole interface for symposia
> is very good. It works better for conversations, but probably
> not symposia.
>
>> I might also be interested to "kibbitz" on this symposium, but
>> I would not want my humorous or provocative comments to
>> intrude on the main discussion. Could I create a
>> meta-symposium in which I could link to comments in the CHAT
>> symposium and write responses which would only be visible to
>> people I select (e.g. the instructors, and maybe any
>> participants whose rep levels exceed some threshold)?
>
> Yes, that could be done.

Thanks!

>Nor do I think the whole interface for symposia is very good. It works better for >conversations, but probably not symposia.

Are the plans for developing an alternative interface, then? I'm a bit confused

I'm still finding it difficult to visualise how this will function, but look forward to participating however I can. When is the starting date?
Andy

Mike's course starts Jan 9, I believe, and mine on Jan 23.

OK! That's 8am Monday morning in San Diego, yes? 2am Tuesday morning in Melbourne. What happens then? Will someone call me on Skype? Or does all that happen on a different day? What is the topic? Is there any preparatory material?