NOTE: I have sent an e-mail to all members of the class. If you received it you must post a comment on this blog post to confirm that you received it.
Thanks to everybody who came to class today, what a full house! It was great to see your smiling faces. Here are several announcements:
COMMENTS: The comments function is now fixed. You can post comments on this blog without needing to log in. So if you have any more questions about the assignments or any other aspects of the class, please ask them as a comment on this post.
YOUR BLOGS: As of Wednesday afternoon 24 people have sent me their blog addresses. I have aggregated all of them here, via Bloglines (click on the 0007 folder). Don’t worry if you don’t understand how Bloglines works, we will go over it in the next class. But meanwhile it’s an easy way to follow all your classmates’ blogs in one place.
BLOGGING ASSIGNMENT 1: Remember, according to Week 1 on the Class schedule, your first blog post is due by Friday noon. This is so that your classmates who have to do a presentation about Week 1 can have a chance to read what you have to say and prepare. As a reminder, the assignment is: Write a blog post reacting to the two assigned articles, to the Week 1 pre-lecture blog post, and to the lecture itself: How do you think the Internet is changing journalism in Hong Kong, China or wherever you call home? What do you think that means for your future career as a journalist? Your blog post must contain some hyperlinks to other web sites or blogs.
BLOGGING ASSIGNMENT 2: Your second blog post is due by the beginning of the Week 2 class. In this post you will spend a few paragraphs describing a topic here in Hong Kong that you think might be good for your final project. Link to some information about it and say something about why you find it interesting. As I mentioned in the lecture, during the secnod half of this course you will work on a project covering some aspect of Hong Kong that you think has changed in some way since the handover 10 years ago. Try to think of something that you think maybe the media won’t be focusing on so much, so that your final work will be a truly unique and valuable work of journalism. At this stage I’m not asking you to commit to the topic you describe here. This is only a very early brainstorm to get a sense of what you are interested in.
BLOGGING LANGUAGE AND TONE: Somebody asked me how formal the language of your blog posts needs to be. My answer is: You can be somewhat more conversational than a newspaper article. But your work for this class is not like having a chat with your friends. Remember that you are writing in a public space, as a future journalist – or at very least a future professional. Your work on your blog should be something that projects the image of the kind of professional you are hoping to become. Being professional doesn’t mean never being conversational, and it doesn’t mean never making jokes. It does mean, however that you need to think about the impact that your words will have on how people perceive you as well as others. When talking about other human beings, always strive to be fair and accurate. Treat them as you would like them to treat you, with respect.
GOOGLE GROUP:Many of you said you had trouble accessing the Google Group. In order to access it, you need to set up a google group account at groups.google.com (just click on the link that says “create an account”). Note that YOU MUST use the SAME e-mail address that you are receiving this e-mail on. If you use some different e-mail address it will NOT work.
PRESENTATION SIGN-UP: The presentation sign-up sheet has been moved to Google Pages. I have given access to all of you who signed the attendance sheet yesterday, with the same e-mail address you put on the attendance sheet. If you get a message saying that you need to sign in or create an an account, then you can either sign in with your google groups account (as described above) or click on the link that says “create a new google account.” Be sure to use the same e-mail address that you gave me!
Angie
January 31, 2007 @ 4:18 pm
Present!
By the way I found it is very difficult to connect to uniblog.org through the network at hall…
Sharon
January 31, 2007 @ 4:47 pm
Hi!!
Tom Freestone
January 31, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
Have recieved the email.
Tom
Marie
January 31, 2007 @ 5:43 pm
I am there!!!
I tried to explore my blog, how it works etc… but I don’t really understand how I can post a picture on it.
I can use my laptop during the course if it can help.
Iris
January 31, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
I have received the email. Thanks.
Sandy
January 31, 2007 @ 6:43 pm
i have received all the email. thz~
Carmen Leung
January 31, 2007 @ 7:09 pm
Got the emails, Thanks.
Gloria Chan
January 31, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
I got the email already.
Britney Tian
January 31, 2007 @ 10:49 pm
I have received the emails.
Thanks very much.
Amanda
January 31, 2007 @ 11:20 pm
I have recieved the email!
Thx!
Jane Ho
January 31, 2007 @ 11:22 pm
Email received
Annie Hung
February 1, 2007 @ 12:39 am
Hola, just to let you know that I have received your email.
Tweety
February 1, 2007 @ 2:32 am
Got the email already! THX~
Fion
February 1, 2007 @ 11:49 am
Got it too. Thanks!
Marco
February 1, 2007 @ 12:01 pm
Got it, thanks.
Sharon Zhen
February 1, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
Got it.
Pieter-Paul Walraven
February 1, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Got it!
my appologies for the late reaction
Patrick Fok
February 1, 2007 @ 4:09 pm
got it…
Alex Sherratt
February 1, 2007 @ 5:33 pm
ALex here, email received
miu
February 2, 2007 @ 3:00 am
get it
Jessica Cheng
February 2, 2007 @ 8:16 am
Hi, I’ve got the email. thanks.
Antibush
February 15, 2007 @ 10:38 am
Bush goes ballistic about other countries being evil and dangerous, because they have weapons of mass destruction. But, he insists on building up even a more deadly supply of nuclear arms right here in the US. What do you think? How does that work in a democracy again? How does being more threatening make us more likeable?Isn’t the country with
the most weapons the biggest threat to the rest of the world? When one country is the biggest threat to the rest of the world, isn’t that likely to be the most hated country?
If ever there was ever a time in our nation’s history that called for a change, this is it!
We have lost friends and influenced no one. No wonder most of the world thinks we suck. Thanks to what george bush has done to our country during the past three years, we do!