Online Learning Journal Checklist

Use this checklist to make sure you have completed all of the instructions for the Online Learning Journal.

1.    The blogspot address of my Online Learning Journal is my student number. Tip

2.    I have invited or re-invited Rebecca to be a reader of my blog if I have changed the blogspot address. Tip

3.    I have the correct time-zone set up on my Online Learning Journal. Tip

4.    I have completed the blog post tasks. Details

5.    I have at least 10 links to external websites listed. Details

6.    I have included appropriate references of all quotes, images and website links throughout my blog

7.    I have checked the spelling and grammar of my posts.

8.    I have checked that all of my posts are over 150 words

You are expected to have completed this checklist by Week 6:

Monday 7^th March at 5.00pm

Online Learning Journal at Week 6

At week 6 your Online Learning Journals should include:

4 POSTS: Related to weekly discussions:

     1. Old Media vs. New Media
     2. Your Glossary term in the correct format and with Harvard Referencing
     3. What effect has the Internet had on journalism?
     4. A critical review of The Social Network film and/or Facebook as a social media.

It is essential that all students have completed the New Media Glossary Challenge and emailed me a copy in the correct format.

It is essential that at week 6 you have a minimum of 3 posts. (Most students should have 4 posts at week 6, unless they have spoken to me about missing one of the posts and I have agreed that this is acceptable.)

10 LINKS: Related to your own research and to what has been discussed:

These should include:
     1.    Your own twitter page
     2.    Your paper.li newspaper, set up from your twitter feeds using http://paper.li/
     3.    The MECS1008 blog: http://mecs1008.blogspot.com/
     3.    At least 7 other links to what we have discussed in Weeks 1 - 5

You will be presenting your Online Learning Journals on Tuesday 8th March 2011

Online Learning Journal Requirements

Your Online Learning Journal is your first assignment in the Introduction to New Media module and will be assessed at week 10. This assignment is 40% of your module.

The minimum requirements of this first assignment are: 

A) Five Written ‘Posts’:

You are required to write at least five ‘posts’ between weeks 1 – 9. These ‘posts’ will be a minimum of 150 words each and be related to the module, suggestions of what to write about will be provided by the module leader and these ‘posts’ may include;

—  reviews of key texts given as handouts in seminars,

—  reflections on practical tasks using new media platforms or exploring websites,

—  reflection on discussion or debate,

—  responses to questions set in the seminars.

By week 10 you will have completed five written ‘posts’ (150 words each), which will become 750 written words in total in your Online Learning Journal.

B) Twenty Website ‘Links’:

You are required to save ‘links’ to all new media platforms, websites and online discussions that interest you and that are discussed in the seminars; these should be added each week and become a minimum of 20 links in total by week 10.

Online Learning Journal Deadlines

Your Online Learning Journals are monitored regularly and you are expected to complete the weekly tasks given to you on time.

Each weekly task is given to you in class, added to the blackboard and to the http://mecs1008.blogspot.com blog.

The deadline for your completed weekly tasks is:

5.00pm every Monday

This is monitored each week.

Both A and B requirements of Module Assignment One will contribute to the module assessment, which is 40%.

The deadline for your completed blog is:

Monday 3^rd April at 3pm

• At this time a screen-shot image will be captured of all of your blogs to ensure any last minute changes will not be considered in the assessment
• “(5 days late grade=D) (5+ days late grade=0) Tutors are unable to alter these and cannot grant extensions.
• If you need extra time, or cannot submit an assignment, you will have to apply for mitigating circumstances with evidence.
• If you do not submit an assignment there will be no opportunity for re-assessment
• You will get your grades returned by Friday 29^th April.