Digc101 Week 1 Slides

DIGC101 New Media and Communication Week One July , 2009

Dr Chris Moore Lecturer Digital Communications and Media Studies [email protected]

BCM = Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies …

Digital Communication Specialisation

DIGC101 New Media Communication

The Plan

This subject introduces students to some of the principal forms of communication now regularised through the computer and the Internet. Students will key acquire digital literacies for participating in the online public sphere and work towards building personal web projects.

Digital Communication Specialisation

DIGC101

Learning Outcomes / Graduate Qualities  develop personal new media and digital literacy skills

 move from consumers to users and producers develop participatory and collaborative practices  be aware of how change and its institutional organisation and work to effect change recognise economic and cultural powers which reform these forms of participation into consumer capitalism

Break it down… 27 July

Introduction

3 August

The Web from 1.0 to 2.0

10 August

Analysing the Web: Guest Lecture

17 August

Blogging: Gender and Politics

Web project first assessed, email submission due

Friday, August 21, by 4pm 24 August

Social Network/ing

Reflection essay due August 27 by 4 pm. 31 August

YouTube: Public and Private TV

7 September

Mobile Power

14 September

Tag you’re 'it': Folksonomy and

Participation 28 September MID SESSION RECESS 6 October

Be the Media: Blogs, Mobs and Pods

12 October

Pirates of the InterWebs

19 October

Exploring Online Worlds

Second reflection essay due, Thursday, October 22 by 4 pm. 126 October

Presentation of projects

Final web project assessment in class, Wednesday, October 28, (during class) 12 November

STUDY RECESS

Channels of Communication Lecture

Delicious

Tutorial

Google Docs

Consultation

Wiki

Email

YouTube

Twitter

Lab/Seminar WedNesday 9:30-12:30 17-110B

Friday 9am – 12pm 19.2018 4221 5459

email [email protected] [email protected]

twitter

DIGC_Dr_Moore

Delicious.com Jo Guldi BCM301_History2.0 Crypticon

Wikis http://www.slideshare.net/jtubbs/blogswikis-and-other-cool-tools-for-educationin-a-flat-world

http://www.slideshare.net/suziea/blogswikis-and-web-20-tools-in-educationpresentation

YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/joguldi

http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch A vision of students today

Commitment to focus less on trying to convey good information and more on attempting to inspire good questions. Meaning and significance are assured only when our learning fits with our own motivations and grand narratives (Wesch, 2008; 6)

Skills and Literacies

Playful

experimental approach to problem solving

improvisational and explorative identity

Simulation

Digital Literacie

Remix Mashup Sample Copy License Give Credit

Digital Literacies

ssess environments nd shift focus to ddress critical sues.

understand the meaningful use of tools to expand mental capacities

Collective Intelligence

pool resources, compare notes and coproduce common knowledge

employ critical evaluation and understand the credibility of different information sources

Judgment

Transmedia Navigation

Negotiation

Reflection Essay (1500 words), due Week 5, Thursday, August

Web Project Assessment

27 by 4 pm (20%)

due Week 4, Friday, August

Reflection Essay

(2000

21, by 4pm (10%) AND

words), due Week 12, Thursday,

Week 13, Wednesday,

October 22 by 4 pm (30%)

October 28, (in class) (30%)

Online and Class Participation (10%)

The problem of significance: how to design a curriculum that makes the most of students skills, abilities and creative energy with a methodology designed to expand critical and theoretical thinking, and promote relevant and practical contribution.

Wesch Mike, 2008, 'Anti-Teaching: Confronting the Crisis of Significance', Education Canada, Canadian Education Association, (available: http://www.cea-ce.ca/media/en/AntiTeaching_Spring08.pdf) date accessed June 19, 2009.

Reflection Essay Week 5: Thursday, August 27 by 4 pm.

20.00%

1500 words

Topic: Using and Experiencing the Web as a Communication Form In the first four weeks of the semester, you will be developing your experience with collection of online technologies, including blogs, social

networking sites, wikis, forums, image sharing sites and personal web pages among others.

From your experience so far and drawing on other primary, secondary and tertiary sources, construct an essay that incorporates the ideas, concepts and issues studied in the lectures and labs/seminars.

Reflection Essay #2 Week 12, Thursday October 22 by 4 pm

30.00% 2000 words

Topic: Online Public Culture

Using work contributed to your blog, the knowledge developed from the lectures and lab/seminar exercises, and your own further research (including primary, secondary and

tertiary sources), write an essay that critically discusses your experiences with one of the new media technologies, online public cultural practices or other issues examined during the

course.

Reflection Essay Style A reference list should be provided in a conventional academic

format. The reflection essay should consider the texts and further readings from the lecture and class content.

Remember to introduce further credible academic sources and include relevant primary and secondary materials to exemplify your observations. If you are unsure about academic referencing protocols, you must check the UoW Library Website. The Harvard style is recommended.

Class and Online Participation Significant participation in tutorials/labs is part of the assessment in this subject (10%). This will involve collaborative discussions and presentations of materials from those

discussions.

Criteria  Evidence that you have read the materials assigned for the tutorial  Listening and engaging: listening carefully to the discussion and adding to the discussion constructively  Respect for other people and their ideas

 Capacity to lead discussion where asked or assigned  Online participation will be comprised of the student’s contributions to the classmates’ blogs, specific online homework assigned.

Web Project Assessed Twice, once in Week 4 (Friday, August 21, by 4pm), and once in Week 13, Tuesday, October 27, (during class). Submission notification via email.10% + 30% = 40 % We will be exploring how we can begin to craft a specific online presence. You will be required to supplement your web projects with different contributions, images, and thoughts and at least one blog post each week.

Preparations begin from week one as we plan the basic structure of our web projects. This is where your background, expertise, inside knowledge and interests will be of practical use. What kind of identity or presence do you want to create? What part of the web haven't you explored in detail before. Have you avoided social networks, or is there a theory you want to test out with Twitter? The assessment will take into account your ability to plan, develop and produce content for your sites, and you should include links to all the visual, audio and other media created during the semester.

Next week WEEK TWO – The Web from 1.0 to 2.0 (Week beginning 3 August)

Web 2.0 is a description of web design that is oriented around the principles of user communication, the sharing of information and the collaborative production of media and other materials. The lecture and discussion this week explores the transformation from the early iterations of the web, which previously reflected a static collection of text and multimedia, to a generation of web content, services and design ordered around user-driven applications, social networking sites and the means for producing and disseminating information in a dynamic manyto-many context. Background Materials: Warschauer, Mark and Grimes, Douglas 2007, 'Audience, Authorship and Artifact; The Emergent Semiotics of Web 2.0',Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, vol. 27, pp. 1–23.