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 [...]
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Reminder: Class is coming to a close
Posted in Assignments, Class Activities, Projects, Weblogs on 27 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Class for Wednesday 27 June and Weblog Assignment
Posted in Class Activities, Weblogs on 26 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In class Wednesday we will discuss the experience of working with the wikis and, if time allows, move on to discuss crowdsourcing. Feel free to play with the wikis in the meantime. For your second individual weblog entry this week (due Thursday 28 June) please write a brief reflection on the experience you had with [...]
Wikipedia Project, Part Two
Posted in Class Activities, Weblogs on 26 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By now you have posted an entry at your personal weblog presenting evidence to support your position on whether Wikipedia is a reliable resource. Your instructions were to do this collaboratively, discussing with others in class while you worked. But your entry on the topic is ultimately individual.
The next step in this process is to [...]
Class for Friday 22 June
Posted in Class Activities, Projects, Weblogs on 22 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I said that today we would continue our examination of Wikipedia and open source/collaborative production, but we will do that instead on Monday in order for people to have time to review material linked at yesterday’s entry.
Instead today we will have a work/consultation day. I recommend that you use the class time today to [...]
Promoting Your Site
Posted in Class Activities, Projects on 20 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today in class we will have a play day – time to work on your project sites. Our focus today will be on building your community of readers by promoting your site. The internet is a big place and you will need to put some attention into building your profile in order to make it [...]
In Class Today: 18 June
Posted in Class Activities on 18 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In class today, groups will make presentations based on last Thursday’s in class activity. As each group presents, everyone in class should follow along with their computers, exploring the sites each group examined.
Tomorrow we will review the midterm. Remember the reading that is also due for tomorrow, the chapter on community in the handout you [...]
In-Class Activity: Participatory Journalism and Web Communities
Posted in Class Activities, Terms and Concepts, Weblogs on 14 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
(Note: If you were absent for this class, you will need to do a similar exercise on your own for another news site. Please speak to me about it.)
In class today we will begin an activity in which we examine news oriented websites in order to learn about their communities. This is a group exercise. [...]
A few thoughts on community
Posted in Class Activities, Weblogs on 13 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
One of the things Akina says she gets out of community is the opportunity to interact with different people. As part of the KIMEP Times community, she gets to interview interesting people. Certainly this is a feature of a journalistic community (after all, a big part of a reporter’s job is to find out new [...]
Discussing Community Within a Community
Posted in Class Activities, Weblogs on 13 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today in class we will continue our discussion of community. Begin by visiting some other students’ sites and seeing what they have written about community. Then, at your own site, post an entry considering what you have learned reading their entries. (Be sure to post a link to the entries you discuss.) Some things you [...]
Social Networks and Communities
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 [...]
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