Comm361-001/Online Journalism Grading SheetName: |
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Assignments |
Description |
Points |
Deadline |
| Upload home reading assignments (10) | Rewrite and summarize 5 reading
assignments of your choice utilizing web-writing techniques. You may do
an additional assignment for extra credit. |
25 25 25 25 25 |
April 17 (end of 13th week) |
Video Conference Stories |
Write a 2-page, double-spaced story utilizing web-writing techniques (including links) and upload each on a separate page of your website ... stories may be submitted to instructor for editing and feedback ... each story must include quotes from the video conference and at least one quote from a classmate. You must do a minium of five (375 total points). | 375 |
Individual by story
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| Video conference story #1 (Ari Fleischer) | 75 |
Jan. 31 |
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Video conference story #2 (Walter
Mondale and/or |
75 |
Feb. 7 |
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| Video conference story #3 (Janet Brown) | 75 |
Feb. 14 |
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| Video conference story #4 (Ken Sands) | 75 |
Feb. 19 |
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| Video conference story #5 (Brit Hume) | 75 |
Feb. 21 |
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| Video conference story #6 (Joel Sucherman) |
75 |
Feb. 26 |
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| Video conference story #7 (Rob Curley) | 75 |
March 4 |
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| Other video conferences TBA | 75 |
Others TBA |
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Final Story |
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| First draft (should include ALL the primary elements) | Your story should be an example of cross-platform story telling utilizing a variety (3 minimum) of multimedia techniques and programs. | 125 |
April 17 |
| Final version (ready for presentation) | 75 |
April 24 |
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Your Blog |
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| Weekly blog entries (2 per week) | You must write a minimum of 2 entries per week beginning Week #3 (Feb. 3 if not sooner) through Week #13 (April 19) for a minimum number of 20 entries (5 points each). Entries must demonstrate knowledge of web-writing techniques and include links. You may do up to 2 extra for extra credit. | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 (100 total) |
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per week between Feb. 3 and April 19 |
Your Website |
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| Required STAR Lab workshops | You must attend a minimum of 2 workshops by the assigned dates. |
50 50 |
March
7 April 11 |
| Extra credit STAR Lab workshops | You may attend up to 8 additional workshops. | (10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10) |
No later than April 11 |
| Upload your website on the Mason server | Create your index page and pages for the other parts of your website. | 25 |
No later than Feb. 21 (end of 5th week) |
| Site infrastructure | Create a basic look and navigation system for every page of your website (includes links to the syllabus, your assignments page, final project, blog, resume, resource page and other pages). | 25 |
No later than March 6 (end of 7th week) |
| Assignment page | Utilizing tables, build a page that takes users to each home reading assignment, each video conference story, your Media Pyramid (using Photoshop), and your final project. | 25 |
No later than Feb. 21 (end of 5th week) |
| Resources/favorite sites page | 10 |
Feb. 29 |
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| Portfolio page (extra credit) | (20) |
April 17 |
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| Database (extra credit) | (20) |
Part of project |
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| RSS feed (widget or page) | (20) |
March 20 |
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| Resume | 10 |
April 10 |
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| E-Mail link | 5 |
Feb. 21 |
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| Website total | (300 total) |
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