Overview/Catch UP

1. Kourtney, Reece, and Jordan (we missed you last Friday!) Read the other three student blogs on Slings and Arrows. Post a blog commenting on what you missed and say something about the last entertaining movie or TV show you watched. Post at least one image. (This is for CREDIT)
2. We must get the Epic Presentation unit wrapped up. Follow the directions in the blog assignment below this one.
3. Digital Nation on the horizon. See the blog assignment listed below so that you know what is coming.
   
4. NEW PROGRAM this week. I am looking into that one.
   

   Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century

Epic Presentations

We are going full steam ahead on theEpic Power Point presentations. Make sure that you have uploaded YOURS through Slide Share onto your blog. It needs to "live" there for credit.

You will take oh so good notes during your classmate's presentation. Then you will post a very detailed blog, selecting the highlights from the presentations. Those directions will be out shortly.

Then we will transition nicely into our Digital Nation Unit. Btw - the program is only a year old... and... I just learned that there is a new program airing this week:

Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century

Digital Nation

New Unit! We are going to listen, watch and learn about the PBS program: Digital Nation

This Introduction gives a good "overview" of the scope of this program. Read this and check out some of the links in the article. Notice the tabs at the top of the page. These are the sections or "chapters" of the program. Watch the 4.30 trailer here / click on the video link.

One tab "Your Stories" shows sooo many different people's connections to our digital world. Notice the category choices in red that are listed in a vertical column. Use those links to select stories. Listen to 5-10 or so, to get a sense of the variety of stories. Notice also that you can send in "your story" which I would like for us to do at the end of this unit.

After completing the above, write a blog about what you are finding our about so far with this introduction. Include 1 or more links and 1 or more images in your post.

The Media Class wiki has an assignment page for this program here. I need to know if you can jump on here or if I need to re-set some preferences.

This is a 90 minute program. You will work individually or with a partner on this unit. Watch the entire program on line (I hope- we may have bandwidth issues) and then follow the wiki assignment directions.

When we are done with this, we will be creating a short Animoto trailer for your section. Then you will present "cool ideas" from your chapter to the group. You will also post a fabulous blog on 3 main learning points from your section. See Justine's here. Cool beans!