schedule
week 3 - monday 11 april
Finding and Evaluating Online Communications
- As students arrive ... take this time to read classmate blogs
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Featured blogs ...
1. I am realizing how computer technology is flying right by me. I feel, especially in the future that if you are not up to speed with the current technology you will be left in the dust.
2. I do wonder if there is going be a time when this ever increasing technological age surpasses me and my future grandkids laugh about how poor ol' grandpa doesn't even know how to use a (fill in the blank with something not invented yet).
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Guest Speaker : Jessica Albano, "
Information overload: credibility, authority, authenticity"
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Lab
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Objectis: Project Management "Intranet"
- Post meeting notes here
- Login is your UWNet ID
- Pswd is < passw0rd > where 0 = zero
- Notes from last Wed meetings are in respective Project folders
- Each class member has their own folder/storage area -- we will
be posting Dreamweaver workshop files here
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Lab Assignment:
- Review Discussion Leader Assignments
- Review steering committee reports and recommendations for
measuring project success.
- Identify team members who want to work on web site design,
production (if any)
- Pioneers: decide which of the topic areas interests your peer group (now 6)
- Bloggers: work on plan for finding, id'ing blogs/bloggers
- Everyone: post results of this lab to the PM site (above)
assignments
- Question:
There is no assigned book for this class. If you purchased a book
at the bookstore, please consider returning it. The bookstore
mixed up COM300A and COM300B
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Reading for the next class :
(1) "Role of the Internet in National and Local News Media Use" from Journal of Online Behavior by Eric Riedel, Amy Gangl, Alina Oxendine, Melinda Jackson, John L. Sullivan, and Eugene Borgida (1:3) (2003).
(2) (Optional/Extra Credit) "A Beginner's Guide to Media Reform" from Free Press (nd) (read the entire, multi-page article - pay attention to the "Did You Know" factoids)
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blog post due by 9.30 am Wed 13 Apr :
Do you agree or disagree with the authors of the required reading? Why? What 'ah-ha's did you gain form these readings? [ 1 post ] [1 extra credit post]
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