Week 2 – Wednesday

Agenda – Evolution of Digital Communication (w/lab)

• Lecture/Lab
• Review Assignments

Recap from Monday – EPIC2015 Discussion – Lecture (ppt/slideshare)

GeekSpeek

• Multi-Media: Warriors of the Net! (13 min – YouTube, InternetArchive)
• Deconstruct URLs
  • Anatomy of a URL
  • Illustrated Guide
  • Illustrated Example
• RSS in Plain English (Blip.tv & YouTube, 4 min)
  • Bloglines
  • GoogleReader
  • MyYahoo!

Slideshare.net

• Demo the site – high level explanation of social networking sites
• Students should create a Slideshare.net account before leading discussion. Sharing our PPTs on Slideshare makes us part of the larger community of people who are studying digital media; it’s a contribution to a collective, an information soup!

Review Assignments

• Review Discussion Leader responsibilities and groups
• Review the 1st essay assignment (due 30 January)
• Reminder: Monday is a holiday but reading assignment is still due!

Lab

• Visit your favorite news site. Find the RSS feeds. Click and see what happens. Right about this experience — how easy/hard it was to find the feed, how many feeds there were, what happened when you clicked around in the news site — the post as “assignment.”
• Remove SnapPreview from blog:
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