Posted in Assignments, Projects on 2 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This week, Wednesday and Thursday, final project groups will do brief presentations on their project sites. These presentations should be relatively informal. For individual projects, plan to take about 10 minutes to present. For groups, about 15 minutes. Presentations should address the following:
How did you decide on your project idea(s)?
What were your sources of information? [...]
Posted in Assignments, Terms and Concepts, Weblogs on 29 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
Remember: Theories, terms and concepts are ideas that we use to make sense of the world around us, to understand and predict how the world works, and to help us decide how we can and should act in the world. They are socially constructed but they often have a real effect on how we perceive [...]
Posted in Assignments, Class Activities, Projects, Weblogs on 27 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are fast approaching the end of the fifth week of class. This coming weekend is the last before individual weblogs and final project weblogs are due, and also the last before the final exam, which comes on Friday 6 July.
Use the remaining time wisely. Be sure you are up to date with the individual [...]
Posted in Assignments, Weblogs on 25 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today we will work on a collaborative research project. Here is the assignment:
Wikipedia presents itself as an online encyclopedia–a factual resource which we expect will provide us with reliable information. Using all the resources available to you, spend this class period looking for evidence that will help you take a position on the question, “Is [...]
Posted in Assignments, Terms and Concepts, Weblogs on 21 June 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Open Source” and “Collaborative Production” are important concepts for understanding new information technologies and their relation to social networks. For our purposes, we can understand these as closely related terms describing social arrangements through which groups of people work together in order to create something.
The term open source is often used to refer to a [...]
Posted in Assignments, Class Activities, Terms and Concepts, Weblogs on 12 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In chapter four of We Media, “Rules of Participation,” the authors suggest that people who participate in online communities (or social networks) do so in order to fulfill certain needs, which may include (among others):
Building status or reputation
Creating connections with other people (”networking”)
Making sense or building understanding
Informing and being informed
Entertaining others and being entertained
Creating
For today’s [...]
Posted in Assignments, Projects, Tips and Guidelines, Weblogs on 12 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The following guidelines for citing sources apply to all material submitted for this course:
Citing sources of information is essential in academic writing and in journalism (as well as in other contexts). The major reasons for citing sources are:
To acknowledge work done by others;
To demonstrate the value of your own writing by showing that you have [...]
Posted in Assignments, Weblogs on 6 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In class this week we discussed using Bloglines as a tool to “create your online beat.” For your weblog journal assignment for Friday 8 June, write a brief entry describing your online beat: how and why you chose the topics, and how you selected your information sources. In addition, provide a link to your Bloglines [...]
Posted in Assignments, Projects on 6 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You will notice on your course outline an item titled “Final Projects.” The project assignment is as follows:
Weblogs are one type of new information technology that provides many users with the opportunity to publish their ideas widely at minimal cost. You have already created your own weblogs to use for course writing. Your final project [...]
Posted in Assignments, Class Activities on 5 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By now everyone should have set up a Bloglines account and used it to subscribe to all our course weblogs. (If you are having any difficulty with this process, please let me know now so that you do not fall behind.) Hopefully the Bloglines aggregator will make it easier for you to keep up with [...]
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