New Media Workshop

This is an important announcement for all students. As large numbers of MJ’s are absent from class this week, the second assignment for Week 3 has been removed. Your assignment, due at noon the day before your Week 4 class is outlined on the revised class schedule. Click on that link for the readings, which have not changed. The assignment and deadlines HAVE CHANGED. I repeat it here to make sure everybody is perfectly clear:

Blog & Wiki assignment (BJ due Monday Feb.26th at noon. MJ due Thursday March 1st at noon.) Find a wikipedia page that relates to the subject that you are considering for your final project. Contribute to that page in a substantive way by adding or correcting information. Write a blog post describing what you did and linking to the specific edits you made. Or if there is no Wikipedia entry on the subject you are most interested in, try creating one and see what happens. Then describe what happened on your blog and link to the history pages that show the process. Answer the question: in what way was this journalism? Or was it something else and if so what? Reflect on what you learned from this week’s assigned readings in light of your own experience in editing and using Wikipedia.

The original second assignment will be done as in-class work during Week 4.

NOTE ON ASSIGNMENTS AND GETTING CREDIT FOR THEM: If you miss a class, you will not get credit for the in-class work for that class unless you have a serious family emergency or serious illness/injury, in which case make-ups are possible. However if you post your assignment or assignments for that week on time (as stipulated on the class schedule), you can still get full credit for that assignment even if you were not present in class. Please note that if you were absent for non-emergency reasons, if the skills required to complete the assignment were taught in class, and if you are unable to figure out how to do them on your own, you must find a classmate to help you. If you have questions about any of this please ask me.

ABOUT YOUR CLASS PROJECTS: If you are working on your MJ final project this semester, it is ok if the focus of your class project overlaps with your MJ final project. However for this class you must focus on an angle that can be told as a multimedia story, including photos and sound.

Have a great Chinese New Year!