Congratulations!

A massive congratulations to all of the students who presented their Online Learning Journals in class today. You all did a brilliant job of talking through your posts, your arguments, your understanding of new media and your glossary challenge, and sharing your reflective writing, images, videos and links.

The top tips for all the Online Learning Journals are:

• Check you are referencing properly - is every quote, link and image referenced using a Harvard system? For quotes it is not good enough to just put a website link, you must include who said it and when they said it, the link and what date you accessed the link.
• Split your links into categories, to be able to clearly see the theme of the links, for example use the topics you are linking to, like old vs new or online journalism or categorise by type of link, like web 2.0, discussions, glossary, books, videos...
• Add images, if you want to make your blog look more colourful or if you would find it useful to visualise what you are writing about you can include images. This isn't part of the assessment, its up to you how you want the aesthetic to be. If you include any images, you must reference where you found them from.
• In your posts; make sure you are writing, discussing and arguing in a critical way, by raising problems and questions that we have discussed in class or others that you think of. Although you are encouraged to personally reflect on the new media you use to be able to write your Online Learning Journals make sure the language you use is not too informal, remember this is a University assignment.
• Allways proof-read and spell check (using ABC button) your posts before publishing.

As a reward to the wonderful students who presented today there is no homework this week.

For those who missed today's (week 6) lecture you need to read through this mecs1008 blog to catch up on what you have missed. And all students who have missed giving a presentation will have to at a later date as it is part of the Online Learning Journal assignment.

Next 2 Weeks:
Week 7: Tuesday 15th March:  PL1002 from 2.15-5.15 : Online Identity and creating your avatar in Second Life
Week 8: Tuesday 22nd March: PL1002 from 2.15-5.15 : Online Identity and event in Second Life

Please try to not miss these sessions as they are directly related to your essay assignment and it will not be possible to repeat these sessions or to do the work in your own time.