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.