Assignment One

Assignment One: 40%

1. Keep an Online Learning Journal (blog)

Details: Assignment One

-       The Online Learning Journal will be created using Blogspot in your first Seminar in Week One

-       A handout will be provided for guidance on setting up and keeping it.

-       Students must use their student number as the blog ID and URL

-       All Online Learning Journal’s will need to be private not public.

-       The aim of the Online Learning Journal is to have a personal creative journal to collate individual notes, reflections, web-links, research and written text over the module, which will be a valuable resource when approaching assignment two: writing an academic essay.

Requirements: Assignment One

A) Five Written ‘Posts’:

Students are required to write five ‘posts’ between weeks 1 – 9. These ‘posts’ are between 150 – 300 words in length each. The post titles are:

1. “Old Media” vs. “New Media”
2. New Media Glossary Challenge
3. How have mobile medias shaped participatory culture?
4. How has the Internet changed journalism?
5. A conversation in Second Life to critically reflect on avatar experience.

Further details for each post will be given during seminars and students are expected to have completed each post within one week, before the next seminar.

Students are expected to use both primary and secondary materials in their discussions. Students must reference the origin of all images, videos and quotes included on their blog. Spelling, grammar and referencing will be marked.

In Week 9 students are required to give a short visual presentation of their blog and provide peer feedback to each other on their blogs.

B) Twenty Website ‘Links’:

Students are required to save a minimum of 20 ‘links’ to websites, videos, books and journals that are discussed in the seminars or are research towards assignment two.

By week 9 students will have completed five written ‘posts’ (150-300 words each) and added a minimum of 20 links to their Online Learning Journals

Both A and B requirements of Assignment One detailed above will contribute to the assessment, which is 40%.

The deadline for Assignment one is: Wednesday 28^th March at 3pm.

More details about the assignment learning outcomes and deadlines are in the module handbook, available on in Blackboard.