Week 7 - June 11th

Review Postman Chapters 8-11 in prep for final essay exam.
Review and think about niche theory in prep for essay exam.

Friday, June 15th, 8 p.m.
Essay Exam in I-House location TBD. This will be an essay exam with several questions covering chapters 8-11 conceptually, as well as a conceptual/applied niche theory question. It will take about an hour. You just bring yourself and a pen. I'll provide the rest.

Midnight, June 21
Final Project
"Top 10 New Media, Technologies and Services that will Change the __________________ Industy" (the _________ being your choice of media industry: journalism, broadcast, advertising, PR, communications).

Final Project: What To Do
Okay. We're all sick of Postman's whining! It's time to blow him off and collect, expound and espouse what you think are the Top 10 "things" that are going to be "The Next Big Thing." You are going to do a blog with 10 blog entries comprising these "things."

Over the next two weeks, collect URLs, links to photos, etc., of what you think are the things and services that are going to "change everything" in terms of new media and society.

--Set up your blog at www.blogger.com
--Each of the 10 entries should be at least 150 words. Thus, you want to do this over a week or so's period of time. Don't put this off and do it "all at once."
--Each should have a photo or logo with it
-- Sure you can do YouTube as one of them, but if they are all generic and things we've all heard and know about, then that will hurt your grade
-- Not necessary on all of them, but can you work a some references to Postman or Niche Thoery into your commentary? (In other words, apply the readings to the real worl.)
-- Good grammar, no typos.
--In your commentary tell us why "the thing" is so important and if it will be good or bad.
-- You'll email me your blog's URL by the due date/time.

Also, if you want. Do one or two in the next week and email me the link and I'll let you know if you're on the right track.

Note:Need help gettting started with your blog, collecting URLs, or doing photo links? There are lots of help tutorials on the Blogger site, or contact me ASAP and we'll set up a quick coaching session. It's really easy to do.