Creating your Tag Cloud:

As an appendix to your essay, you will need to produce a Tag Cloud to visualise your essay.

Creating your Tag Cloud:

1. Copy and paste part or all of your essay into a separate word document on your computer.
2. Open a web browser and go to the Wordle website:  http://www.wordle.net/create
3. Copy and paste your text into the box
4. Click 'Go'

You should be able to see your tag cloud.

Editing your Tag Cloud:

1. Click Language' and select 'Remove common English Language'
2. Click 'Layout' and select 'Maximum Words...' change to '50'
3. Play around to edit the font, layout and colour of your tag cloud


Publish and SAVE your Tag Cloud

Add it to your essay

When you add it to your essay it needs to be an appendix at the back of the essay, before your referencing.

It is important you include the following information under the tag cloud in your essay.
- A tag cloud visualisation of "  " part of this essay. (Is it the whole essay, beginning, case study or conclusion?)
- created online using wordle.net

ASSIGNMENT ONE: 40%: Online Learning Journal

ONLINE LEARNING JOURNAL

Requirements: Assignment One

A) Five Written ‘Posts’: 

You are required to write a minimum of 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. These are added to Link Lists not inside posts.

DEADLINES: Assignment One

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

All weekly tasks to write a ‘blog post’ should be completed on your blog at 5.00pm every Monday. This is monitored each week.

Both A and B requirements of Assignment One will contribute to the assessment

The deadline for your completed Online Learning Journal is: 

Monday 4^th April at 3pm

You must hand in a printed copy of your Online Learning Journal with a tracking sheet to the Assignments box in Breedon by 3.00pm on Monday 4^th April. 

The print out must be on A4 paper. It can be either black and white or colour and the text of the blog posts needs to be readable. 
The print out must be from the webpage, NOT by copying and pasting it into word.
The print out of the blog will not look attractive, it just must be readable text.

This print out will be an archive to ensure that you make no more changes to your Online Learning Journal after the deadline.

“(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.

At week 10 your Online Learning Journals should include: 

Posts:

1. Old Media vs. New Media  

2. Your Glossary term with Harvard Referencing  

3. What effects has the Internet had on journalism? 

4. Critical Review of The Social Network and Facebook 

5. Virtual Identity (including an image of your avatar) 

6. Exploration of mobile media and public space 

Links:

Your twitter page

Your paper.li newspaper

The MECS1008 Blog

At least 20 links to what we have discussed in Weeks 1 - 9


For more information and to read the learning outcomes, grading criteria read the 'MECS1008 Online Learning Journal Assignment.ppt.pdf' document in Blackboard

Referencing Guides

Here is a great YouTube video on referencing and research methods with Mike Webb and Barbara Mitra from University of Worcester.


If you want to see written examples of Harvard Referenced books, journals and websites then click here 

Adding Links to your Blog

To add links to your blog:

1. Go to: Design - Add a gadget - select 'Link List'

A new window should appear called 'configure link list'

2. Add a title - this is what will appear above your links, so is the title of the group / theme of links, for example 'books' or 'definitions' or 'web 2.0'

3. Copy and paste website addresses (URL's) into the box 'new site URL' for example http://twitter.com

4. Write the title of the website into the box 'new site name' for example Twitter

5. Click Add Link

6. Click Save

You can then select your gadget in your design page to add more links or set up many link lists for different groups of links. 

Changing your blogspot address

Your blogspot address should read: http://yourstudentnumber.blogspot.com

If yours is not currently your own student number, to change your address / URL go to:

SETTINGS - PUBLISHING - type your 8 digit student number into the box - copy the characters in the 'word verification box' - click SAVE - check this has worked.

Once you have done this, you will need to re-invite me as a reader, as you have changed the address I have for your Online Learning Journal.

To read a tip on how to add a reader go to: http://mecs1008.blogspot.com/2011/02/adding-reader-to-your-blog.html

Changing your time-zone

To change the time on your blog to UK time, go to:

Settings - Formatting - Time Zone

Select: GMT(00:00) London

Save

Adding a reader to your blog

Your Online Learning Journals (blogs) need to be set to 'private'. But to add a 'reader' to your blog, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to blog
2. Click Settings
3. Click Permissions
4. Under Blog Readers: Select: Only these readers
5. Type in the email address
6. Click Invite

Please add me as a reader.

All of you will be able to read each others blogs from week 4.