Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile!

Check out this handy guide:

https://www.intelligentoffice.com/blog/how-to-write-a-great-and-effective-linkedin-profile

Crafting Our Personal Brands

FIRST - Students have begun to take initiative to shape their own personal brands by writing a reflective blog entry responding to prompts about their aspiration social media persona.

NEXT - the students will craft a strong, thoughtful Personal Biography which will serve as a foundation for all their social media profiles. They will find tips and guidelines here: https://brandyourself.com/blog/how-tos/8-tips-on-how-to-write-a-personal-biography/

THEN - the students will use the personal Biography to populate the Bio / Profile sections on the following social media platforms:

• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube Channel
  

Black Mirror in Real Life

You viewed a "fictional" account of the possible future of social media interactions.  

Read the two articles below and note specific instances (quote the articles) of how the "fictional future" is the "actual present." Give at least three examples - THEN write a short reflection of the implications of your findings: What does it mean? What will you think or do differently?

The UK's Daily Mail Article

WIRED Magazine

Phun with SEVEN Photos!

In these blog entries, students will explore "freegal" image resources in Dr. Nick's Gigantic Freegal Photo Collection Pinterest Board, and will post TWO PHOTOS from two different image sites - and indicate the source and license for each of their two favorite photos.

ALSO, students will review 7 photo tips from Joshua Cripps  and 9 photo tips from Steve McCurry. Students will then Shoot FIVE ORIGINAL PHOTOS - each of which will illustrate at least ONE of the Photo Tips/Principles. There will be a short description of how each photo illustrates the principle in the blog.

Did Google Make Us Stupid?

PART 1: Students will read Nicholas Carr's seminal article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"and will write a reflective blog on their observations, including discussions on issues like:

• Difficulty reading printed pages
• The explosion of available information
• Nietzsche's typewriter
• The clock
• Memory
• The growth and evolution and influence of Google
• How will YOUR kids "read?"

The Last DJ and the Death of Radio

 Tom Petty's Song "The Last DJ" points out the turning point in broadcast radio where independent voices and markets become lost in an "omnitopia" of sameness across the nation.

Ironically, the corporate record company that owns "the official video" removed it from YouTube. Here is a live version:

Well you can't turn him into a company man
You can't turn him into a whore
And the boys upstairs just don't understand anymore
Well the top brass don't like him talking so much
And he won't play what they say to play
And he don't want to change what don't need to change
And there goes the last DJ
Who plays what he wants to play
And says what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last human voice
There goes the last DJ

There is a great documentary on this topic called "Corporate FM" - here is the trailer!

YouTube, The Rolling Stone, Changes in Media

 Our first few classes have involved a little time travel to see just how significant were some of the shifts facilitated (or caused) by New Media. We have explored artifacts, (including memes and viral videos,) as a way to see how the elements of remediation, meta-generativity, and agency have shaped our 21st-century media landscape.

Students will complete viewing Michael Wesch's lecture "An Anthropological Look at YouTube" and will post their reflections, reactions, and take-aways.

Additionally, student will explicate an assigned song from a playlist - researching the history of the song, examining the lyrics, and deriving an interpretation of how the song speaks about the state (or history) of the Music Industry. Students will post their reflections, along with lyrics, links, or video in their blogs.

(Cheat: I did one of the songs a couple years ago - you can get the idea of what I'm looking for here.)

 

SNEAK PEEK: What Google knows about you

Welcome to CM410 - Spring 2021

This is the Instructor's Blog - or as we will call it, the Class Blog. You will check here for reminders of assignments, summary instructions, and other feedback from the Professor. This page will also feature links to your colleagues in this section (and to colleagues who have gone on before you.)

You could think of this as a "hub" for our class bloggers, but in reality, each of your own sites will, in pretty short order, be "hubs" of their own, connecting with your colleagues.

The main site for resources will be our Limestone Digital Class Website. (Blackboard contains only syllabus, but it is hyperlinked to these sites and other digital resources.)

Bookmark this blog site, as well as the class website, and you will be off and running!

Now let's get this show on the road... 

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Reading on Screens!

For our first reading/thinking/blogging assignment, students will post their thoughts and reflections on two articles:

1. Everything Science Knows About Reading on Screens by Annie Sneed
2. Reading in a Whole New Way by Kevin Kelly

Students will experiment with a few interactive digital artifacts as they explore the affordances new media brings to composition and reception of electronic "texts."

Check the Blog List to the right to see their posts!

All the Answers to the Final Exam are here!