Archive for May, 2007

Week 10 Notes - Th

Posted on 31 May 2007. Filed under: Class Notes |

Mike Davidson, Newsvine
Wrap up discussion
Grades Updated
Course Evaluations
Lab

Candidates missing: Biden, Edwards, Gilmore, Gingrich, Kubby, Kucinich, Mesplay, Paul
Missing images: Giuliani, Hunter, McKinney, Richardson, Tancredo

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Week 10 Notes - Tu

Posted on 29 May 2007. Filed under: Assignments, Class Notes |

Discussion/questions
Grades updated
Review final course deliverables

Due 5 June at 6 pm via eSubmit
Detail on assignments/evaluation page
Group project material should be live by 5 June at 6 pm

Thursday Preview:

Mike Davidson, Newsvine
Wrap up discussion
Lab

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Week 10 Questions

Posted on 29 May 2007. Filed under: Questions |

Your discussion questions

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Irish Election Blog

Posted on 26 May 2007. Filed under: Citizen Journalism, Politics |

This group blog is bringing up-to-the-minute coverage of this weekend’s Irish elections. Two new (to me) sidebar tools : MySay and Rumour Mill. (tip)

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Week 9 Notes - Th

Posted on 24 May 2007. Filed under: Class Notes |

Lab Today

Newsvine: Working in pairs — review one another’s Newsvine posts and help identify the two “best” posts. This is peer feedback to help you prepare your final portfolio for the class.
Issues: Review one of the issues that you did not write. Identify any questions not answered … identify anything that is not clear — [...]

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Week 9 Notes - Tu

Posted on 22 May 2007. Filed under: Class Notes, Questions |

how technology shapes the world

Two discussion leaders (Young, Blythe)

Young (search google with site:domain.com)
Amazon’s search - (reward based) a9.com; human web: open directory project , about.com
Blythe - various congressional acts
MySpace & Sexual Predators

Reading (no posts: Ashley, Ben, Colleen, Mineko)
Review two and comment before we start with the formal discussion

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Week 8 Notes - Th

Posted on 17 May 2007. Filed under: Class Notes |

The Kathy Sierra Story (her words)
Bittorent (and WKRP Cincinnati)
Gonzales and copyright
Political Ad Mashup (Europe)
Culture: Webisodes of Sanctuary
Lab:

Finalize bios
Finalize issues (the teams)
Copyediting will begin next week

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Week 8 Notes - Tu

Posted on 15 May 2007. Filed under: Class Notes |

Lecture/Discussion

Read these posts: Young’s and Ken’s

Review student questions (compiled)

Pick one question that you’d like to address this week and post it as a comment on this page

Discussion Leader + Discussion

Copyright law and speed limits - parallels?
Trademarks & Lost: peanut butter
WKRP Cincinnati (here and here)
Relationship to blogs: podcasts, videocasts
Creative Commons Licenses and CopyLeft

Work on Campaign [...]

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Week 8 Questions

Posted on 15 May 2007. Filed under: Questions |

Student Questions

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The Power of The Blogging Platform

Posted on 15 May 2007. Filed under: Citizen Journalism |

Horse’s Mouth publishes a letter from Chinese reporters at the WSJ … on why the family should resist the overture from Rupert Murdoch. Pre-blogs, not only would this have not been published … few outside of the immediate “news” family would have been talking about the takeover bid. Is it “citizen journalism” when the authors [...]

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