| Enrolling
Assignment
- Due in WEBCT by 5 p.m. September 9. |
Open
the assignment file (click on the link at the left) and follow the
instructions. This assignment must be submitted to the Assignment
Dropbox on WEBCT. You may not submit it by email file attachment
or on paper. This is because part of the assignment is to learn
to use WEBCT. |
| Webct Quiz: Penguin Chapters 1 to 5 | Opens September 2, closes 9 a.m.
on September 14. You may take the quiz as many times as you like
and the highest score counts. No excuses for computer problems
will be accepted if you do not start the quiz the first time by
September
9. |
| My Yahoo Page: Open a "My
Yahoo Page" on Yahoo.com. Configure the page to include
information sources that interest you and reflect your interests. You
will be sharing this page with other students, so give me a copy before
you leave.. Once the page is
finished, open it in a browser, save the file and submit it to this
dropbox. Save a copy of your "My Yahoo" page and submit it to the
Assignment Dropbox by 5 p.m. on September 11. Note: Missing
class on September 9 does not excuse you from this assignment. |
| Personal WEB page. Due by 5
p.m. September 16. This page should be posted as an index.html file on your web
site on clam which means I should be able to find it by clicking on our Class
Photo Directory just as I can with last
year's students. There is no need to turn this
assignment into me on paper or submit it to WEBCT. To do
its job, it must be available on the WEB. I will find it there for
grading. I will be looking for some links, a picture or pictures,
other things that tell us about you. |
| WEBCT
Quiz on The Global Brain and Methods of Future Studies.
Opens September 2, closes 9 a.m. September 21. |
| There
will be an in-class writing assignment on Sept 23. If you miss
class, you should take it on WEBCT by 3 p.m. |
| WEBCT
Quiz on Issue 1 in Taking Sides: pages 2 to 25: "American
Values". Opens Sept 14, closes September 26, 9 a.m. -
Suggestion: look at the PowerPoint presentation on this chapter
available in our WEBCT. |
| Anyone who submits the outline to WEBCT before class time on Wednesday, September 28, will get a 10% bonus in their grade (in return for discussing the outline with the class). If your outline is submitted to WEBCT before class time on Friday, September 30, you do not have to attend class on that day. |
| Writing
assignment due by 5 p.m. September 30. Outline for a 500 word essay on
the topic of how your values have been influenced by the media.
To prepare the outline, open the form for a
five paragraph essay outline and follow the
instructions. The outline should be submitted to the WEBCT
assignment dropbox. |
| Writing assignment due by 5 p.m. October 6 in WEBCT. A 500 word hyperlink essay on the topic how your values have been influenced by the media. The essay must include hyperlinks to web pages for the media (television shows, movies, print publications, web sites, etc.) that have influenced you. It must follow the structure of a five paragraph essay with five paragraphs of five sentences each, as outlined in the previous assignment. The essay should be submitted to WEBCT by October 6 and published on your web site by the end of class on October 7. There should be a link to it from your personal web page. It must be in html format. You will be sharing these essays with the class beginning October 10. |
| Discussion
Board assignment: Read two hyperlink essays: one by
the person before you in the alphabetical list on our Photo
Directory and one of your own choice. Use the Discussion List
on WEBCT, go into the "main" discussion, and post a one paragraph
comment or response to each of the pages. Later on, read the
responses to your own essay and respond to them. Note: feel
free to respond to more than two! Due by class time on Friday,
October 14. |
| Midterm
Examination: to be held in BSB 108 on WEBCT. Monday October
17. |
| Assignment
Due 5 p.m. October 21. Historical
Trends Assignment. |
| Library
Assignment Due 5 p.m. October 29 |
|
Literature Review and References section for the Research Paper due 5
p.m. November 5. Follow APA format as described in the Penguin
manual. This will later be added to the final Research Paper with
any corrections. |
| McLuhan, Turning Points and Politics WEBCT
quiz covering "September
11,
2001:
A Turning Point for America's Future" "Theories of Marshall McLuhan" and
Part 3 of Taking Sides - Opens November 2, closes November 10. |
| Triumph
of the Nerds Quiz open in WEBCT. Closes December 2, 5 p.m. |
| Research Paper Assignment due Tuesday, November 22 in WEBCT. A ten page paper following the format of the "Sample Paper with APA Documentation" in Chapter 23 of the Penguin Manual. These papers will incorporate materials from the Historical Trends, Literature Review and Library Assignments, adding additional tables and text as appropriate. |
| Data
Open House Assignment: Obtain a copy of the Open House form from
Dr. Goertzel at the event and return it to him there. Also sign
the attendance sheet. |
| Research
Presentations due in WEBCT 5 p.m. December 8. These are
best done in powerpoint, but learning the software may be too
difficult. If you wish, you may prepare these in Word. Just
put each table or chart on the top of a page, with the bullet points
below it. Don't fill more than half a page so that it can all be
viewed at once. You won't be able to animate the bullet points. A
sample
presentation in Word is available. If you
wish to do Powerpoint, a sample
powerpoint presentation is available that you can use as a
template. If you open it in Explorer,
you will need to save it to disk and open it in PowerPoint to be able
to edit it. You can then just replace the graphs and text
with your own material, saving as much of the formatting as you wish to
use. |
| Final
Gathering Assignment: A three minute speech on "The Most Useful
or Interesting Things I Learned in Sociology of
Communications". You may submit a powerpoint if you wish,
but you should focus on speaking directly to the audience, not reading
from the screen or from notes. |