Week 5 Summary

On Monday 27th February, the following was covered
The presentation and reading is available in the Blackboard


Digital Distribution
Of music, television and news.


Streaming, Downloading and Podcasts
Considering the benefits and issues with digital distribution of media


An introduction to the term: Citizen Journalism


Creating your own Twitter Newspaper
All students created or updated their Twitter accounts, by 'following' 15 new people on Twitter. And 'tweeting' or 're-tweeting' their first tweet. Students then created a newspaper of their Twitter feeds using http://paper.li 


Creating a tag-cloud of a blog post
All students created a tag cloud, by copying and pasting one of their blog posts into www.wordle.net and then saving and uploading the image into their blog.


Homework
To complete all of the tasks in the handout (available in blackboard)


To do the reading for the next class. The class will be split into two. See below to see which class you will be in and the links to the reading.