Assignment Three Submission
Posted on | November 3, 2011 | No Comments
One of the group members will need to email the URL of the group website to your tutor with the names of the group members.
As for the reflective essay that would need to be emailed individually to your tutor with your name.
Good luck!
Assignment Three Criteria
Posted on | October 19, 2011 | No Comments
The group websites need to have:
- a minimum of 6 pieces of original content (a mixture of written articles, video and audio)
- 6 pieces of content re-purposed from other sites (with adequate acknowledgement of sources)
- links to 10 related sites in the blogroll
The self-reflective essay needs to include:
- should be 400 words long.
- students need to assess their group websites against the criteria they generated from the strategy report. Here they need to discuss briefly which criteria they included and didn’t include and why.
- students need to explain any issues that arose from their group experience, and how these were resolved. This should be brief.
You will be assessed on:
- Quality of your content
- Relevance of your design and content to your target audience
- Your promotion of your site
- Your self assessment
To gain extra marks, you can demonstrate your understanding of the ways in which other platforms can be integrated into your site by incorporating such platforms as delicious, diigo, facebook, twitter, etc into your site.
Student Feedback
Posted on | October 16, 2011 | No Comments
The University Student Feedback Surveys (SFS) are now available for you to complete.
We encourage you to participate in the feedback process and complete the SFS surveys on teaching and the unit.
The survey can be accessed through the My.Swinburne portal [ http://my.swinburne.edu.au ] between 17 October and 10 November 2011
No Lecture this Week
Posted on | September 6, 2011 | No Comments
This is a reminder that there is no lecture this week. It is regarded as a ‘research’ week, so make sure you make the most of it to work on your personal sites. If you have any questions please contact your tutors. Please note that tutorials are running as usual.
Some extra information for week 4 tutorials
Posted on | August 30, 2011 | No Comments
Here are some links to assist you in this week’s tutorials.
Adding sound files to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/
Adding video files to your blog > Vimeo > http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/vimeo/
Adding video files to your blog > Youtube > http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/
Hosting services for your media files
Youtube > http://www.youtube.com/
Vimeo > http://vimeo.com/join
Soundcloud > http://soundcloud.com/
File Dropper > http://www.filedropper.com/
Tutorial Handout week 4 Getting started with WordPress
New Media Writing Competition
Posted on | August 23, 2011 | No Comments
Check this out and give it a shot!
Why the sky isn’t falling
Posted on | August 19, 2011 | No Comments
Yes, I did notice that their names are Garber and Gabler, but this is an interesting article about why ‘big media’ might not be the future home of ‘big ideas’
in general, in this framework, more media choice for consumers means a more fractured media environment for everyone means a more idea-hostile media environment for the culture at large. The logic goes something like this: Internet —> information overload —> informational filters —> media fragmentation —> less collective cognition —> more echo chambers —> more self-absorption —> fewer Big Ideas —> more wanton triviality —> even fewer Big Ideas —> even more wanton triviality —> a “post-idea world.”
In other words, duh-pocalypse is at hand.
Which would all be very alarming and unfortunate, were it not for the flaw in Gabler’s premise: Ideas don’t need the media any more than the media need ideas. They’ve relied on each other in the past, true enough — media as the gatekeepers, ideas as the floods — but the present media moment is characterized above all by the fact that ideas, Big and otherwise, can be amplified independently of traditional media filters. The public, online, is empowered to decide for itself which ideas are worthy of changing the world. The same mechanisms that make a meme a meme can transform a plain old idea into a Big Idea, regardless of what 60 Minutes has to say about it.
Read on http://bit.ly/nlpN2N
Lisa
Readings Week 2
Posted on | August 15, 2011 | No Comments
The readings for week two are below:
Journalism in the Age of Data
Posted on | August 10, 2011 | No Comments
The beauty of data visualisation
David McCandless, a writer and graphic designer, turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.
TED talk by Hans Rosling
by Geoff McGhee
Also available as a multimedia package at http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/
Welcome to Digital Literacies
Posted on | August 6, 2010 | No Comments
This is the blog for the Digital Literacies unit in the Journalism degree. Here we will post news, views and links to your blogs developed during the course. Dive in and have fun.