Office hours are 11:15 to 12:00 Monday, Wednesday and Friday in 325 Armitage.   Email: Ted Goertzel.

Assignment	Due in Class	Due on WEBCT
	Paper assignments are accepted only in class on the day due.	Electronic assignments must be submitted to WEBCT. Instructions
Signing Up for WEBCT and the Class Mailing List.	Must be done online, no in-class option.	January 30, 17:00
Post a statement on "what I would most like to change about society and why" to the Discussion list on WEBCT	To be written in class on Jan 29, then posted on the WEBCT discussion list.	January 31, 9 a.m.
Printout your Yahoo start page.	February 5, 9:05 a.m.	February 5, 9:00 a.m.
Reply to three of the "what I would most like to change essays" on WEBCT	NA	February 5, 9 a.m.
Library Assignment	February 12, 9:05 a.m.	February 12, 9:00 a.m.
Focus Group Plan	February 10, 9:05 a.m.	February 10, 9:05 a.m.
Use the Mytopic template to prepare a Presentation on your topic for the class.	NA	February 21, 5 p.m.
Post a Student Homepage on WEBCT	This Assignment Cancelled	This Assignment Cancelled.
Post a Personal Web Site on Clam	NA	April 4, 5 p.m..
Submit a final version of your Presentation Powerpoint to the Assignment Dropbox	NA	April 7, 5 p.m.
NOTE:  Due to the approaching end of the	semester, late assignments will received half  credit	after April 14.
Three Minute Speech April 14	Green, Heritage, Lyons, Miller, Penny, Pujols, Stevens, Vaidya, Vericho, Vettorazi, Watsula	NA - These will be graded by the instructor using the  evaluation form.
Three Minute Speech April 16	Ansert, Baluyot, Bersch, Ciccone, Cruz, Cummings, Espada, Ezell, Friess.	NA - These will be graded by the instructor using the  evaluation form.
Revised Version of PowerPoint for Presentation	.\NA	This is optional.  If you wish to revise your PowerPoint you may submit it to the Revised Powerpoint Dropbox by Sunday, April 20, 5 p.m
Handout of PowerPoint	In Class on April 21.	NA.
Poster Session Extra Credit Opportunity	.
Review Quiz	NA	Must be taken on WEBCT between 10 a.m. on April 25 and 8:30 a.m. on April 30.  Three tries allowed, at least one hour apart.  The highest score counts.
Poster Session Extra Credit	Sign up officially for the Poster Session, bring your poster to class on April 30, and attend the Poster Session at 12:00 on April 30.	Since the poster is now a requirement, there is no need to submit a proposal.  You must, however, sign up with the department for the Poster Session if you wish extra credit.
Poster Presentation - prepare a poster version of your presentation	This is a reqired assignment, not extra credit.  However, you may use the same poster for both class and the poster session.  Bring it to class on May 2 or May 5 if you are not in the poster session.
Third Quiz	To be taken in BSB 108 on Monday, May 5, at 9:05 a.m.	May not be taken outside of class.
Media and Message Quiz	May be taken in BSB108 on Monday, May 5 after the Third Quiz but may also be taken on your own through May 6.	To be taken on WEBCT any time up until May 6.  May be taken up to three times.  The last version will count.

Links:  Student WEB Pages -  Links on Communications and Society -   WEBCT   -    Rutgers Library  -   Computer Center Help Pages  -  Using Rutgers Computer Systems for This Class  -  Campus Map   -   Campus Homepage  - Class Syllabus  -  Help with PowerPoint

Grading.  As of May 6, I have computed "total scores" based on:  Presentation & PowerPoint, 20%, Attendance 10%, Quiz One 17.5%, Quiz Two 17.5%, Quiz Three, 10%, Assignments, 25%.  The Assignments include:  poster, handout, 3 minute speech, home page, mytopic, focus group plan, signingup, library (counted double), review questions and Media& Message.  I also added extra credit points and an extra point for those who got their powerpoint in by April 7.  I did not include the early PowerPoint grades as these were intended as feedback toward the final product.   The Late Assignment Dropbox closed May 7 at 5 p.m.  Late Assignments are not included in computing the total score, the points for those assignments should be included in the box for the assignment in question.  These items can be checked on WEBCT.  Of course, the total scores will change after the final gathering.

Calendar (latest date on top):    Poster Session Photos

Thursday May 8, 9 a.m.:  Final Gathering.  Be prepared to discuss "What I Learned in This Course About the Relationship Between the Media and the Message" and other questions relevant to the course materials.  
May 5:  Meet in BSB 108 for Online Quiz and Questions for Final Gathering.
May 2:  All remaining presentatins.  Review.  Bring any questions you have based on the online quiz questions.  We will focus on "The Media and the Message".  In preparation for both May 5 and May 8 you should reread:  McLuhan's Theories.  Think about it in the light of the experiences you have had with new media (powerpoint, the web) this semester.   McLuhan:"Internet es un teatro global en el que sólo hay actores".   Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet.  This paper is confused, but raises some interesting issues.  They call television "hot" while McLuhan called it "cool".  This may reflect the fact that TV has developed technically::  Understanding Internet - Extension of Media

April 30:More Presentations, we need to move promptly through these
April 28:  No Class:  Online Review Exam must be completed as an assignment.  May be taken at any time after class on April 25 and before class on April 30.  This will be available on WEBCT under Quizzes.  It will be open book, open notes, open Internet and will count as an assignment, not as a test.  You may take it three times, and your highest score will count.  Each session is limited to 30 minutes and they must be at least one hour apart.  It is your responsibility to find an Internet equipped computer to take the test -- do not put it off to the last minute, excuses will not be accepted.  
April 25:  all remaining presentations, discussion of posters. 

April 23:  more presentations
April 21:   Formal Presentations Begin.  Bring a Handout of the final draft of your presentation to class.  To get a "Handout" go to the print menu in PowerPoint, open the "print what" dropdown menu, and choose Handout.  Choose two slides per page.  We will select students at random to present on this day.  Everyone must be ready.
April 18:  religious holiday, no class
April 16:    Three Minute Speeches:  explain the three main points of your presentation.  No Powerpoint.  Jones, Penney, Ansert, Baluyot, Bersch, Ciccone, Cruz, Cummings, Espada, Ezell, Friess.  These will be graded by the instructor using the  evaluation form.
April 14:   Three Minute Speeches:  explain the three main points of your presentation.  No Powerpoint.  Green, Heritage, Lyons, Miller, Penny, Pujols, Stevens, Vaidya, Vericho, Vettorazi, Watsula. These will be graded by the instructor using the  evaluation form.
April 11:  Online discussion of The Global Brain. Read Chapter 8:  The Global Brain Awakens in preparation. Log onto the chat room for April 11 on WEBCT by 9:05 a.m. EST.  If you wish to connect from home, you should check in advance that your browser can support the WEBCT chat applet.  Otherwise, come into BSB 108 which is reserved for our use (ask the secretary to unlock it if it is locked) or use another Rutgers computer.  Netscape 4.7 works in the labs, Internet Explorer does not (unless it gets fixed).  Transcript of Online Class.
April 9:  in 101 Armitage, work on presentation of powerpoints.       "Really Bad Powerpoints."    Power Point Logic.
The Art and Science of Cause and Effect.  Judea Pearl's site.
April 7:    Meet in BSB 117 to work on Power Points, Final Draft of Power Point Presentation due.  This should be prepared for use in a classroom presentation.  It should have short bullet points, not a lengthy text designed to be read. If you cannot attend class today, you can get attendance credit by logging onto the Chat Room for April 7 by 9:05 a.m.
April 4 - meet in BSB 108, bring materials for your WEB page.  When WEB pages are posted, they can be accessed here.  If you cannot attend class today, you can get attendance credit by logging onto the Chat Room for April 4 by 9:05 a.m..
April 2.  Public speaking.  Reading:  Delivery Dynamics. Unfortunately the links on delivery dynamics may not work, at least unless you pay for a service..  A good source of speeches is The History Channel. You can hear some the Amazon.com page for the Great Speeches of the Twentieth Century.  Here is an evaluation form for rating speeches.
March 31 - meet in BSB 117. Bring the files for your WEB page on a floppy disk and we will publish them in class.
March 28.  Video - The Global Brain.
March 26 -  Class in BSB 117  - Online Quiz - Work on Personal Web Sites
March 24 -  Composing WEB pages.   Netscape Navigator 7.02 download. Instructions for using Netscape 7.0 for publishing are here.  Use the standard installation, including Java and Winamp.  Don't make Netscape your home page unless you want to.  If your computer is older, you might prefer to find Netscape 4.7 and install that.  But it is getting dated.  As an alternative, or as an addition, you may wish to download WF_FTP or another file transfer program.
March 14 -   More of The Triumph of the Nerds
March 12  - Lab Session Cancelled, Meet in Our Regular Classroom.
March 10 -  Discussion of History and Impact of the internet.  Reading: Triumph of the Nerds Web Site. Sample Personal WEB pages:
March 7 - Video Triumph of the Nerds.  The WEB site for the video includes a transcript for anyone who misses the showing.  This requires two periods, so we will pick it up again on March 28.
March 5 - Meet in BSB 117 -  Online Quiz
March 3 -  Review for Quiz on McLuhan's Theories. Power Point presentation by Dale Hunscher on The Laws of (New) Media: Marshall McLuhan and Knowledge Technologies.
February 28 - no class, extra credit for attending Eastern Sociological Association meetings.  Email Bob Wood right away if you want free admission.
February 26 - Meet in BSB 117 - more PowerPoint work.
February 24 -  Discussion of presentation topics.
February 21 -Presentation on  Organizing Your Argument from the Purdue Online Writing Lab.  -  Discussion of organizing the arguments for your presentations.
February 19 - Meet in BSB 117
February 17 - campus closed due to snow
February 14 - Theories of Marshall McLuhan about media and communication. Reading assignments: New York Times Magazine Summary.  Power Point Logic. Suggested (the basic ideas are summarized in my review of McLuhan's ideas): The Playboy Interview.  Video Clip of McLuhan. PowerPoint presentation on 911 as a turning point in history (minus video clips).
February 12:  Meet in BSB 117  We will work on the use of Power Point presentation software.  Reading Assignment, Chapters One and Two of the Power Point Chapter of Websters Office 97 Documentation, available from the University of Canberra.  Sample Presentation:  http://crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/threepoints.ppt
February 10 -  Focus Groups -  Reading Assignment:  Focus Group Basics. Basics of Conducting Focus Groups.  The topic of the group will be.  Questions, from a WEB sote  Images of Girls and Women as Portrayed in the Media include:  What makes a woman beautiful?   What are some of the dominant images of women in the media?  How does advertising shape these images?  Do movie stars and fashion models influence the acceptable standards for beauty  that we see in the media?  Who else influences these standards?  What harmful diseases might be linked to media portrayals of the ideal feminine form?
February 7 - campus closed due to snow
Feb 5 - meet in 117 BSB to work on library assignment
February 3 -   WEB search and use of library resources.  Discussion of "what I would like to change" essays;  researching them on the WEB.

January 31 -   We will meet in a computer lab, BSB 117, instead of in our regular room.  Creating a Yahoo Start Page (My Yahoo) and using Yahoo personal services (calendar, memo pad).

January 29 - In class writing assignment and discussion on: "What I would most like to change about society, and why."

January 27 - Discussion of computer aided communication.  Demonstration of the WEBCTWEB Course Tools software system.  This is important both because we will be using it in this course, and as an example of computer-aided communication.  Historically, this development was anticipated in J.C.R. Licklider's classic articles:  "Man-Computer Symbiosis" and "The Computer as a Communication Device" available in Portable Document Format (pdf) and other formats from Digital.  Today there are a number of products available, such as Microsoft NetMeeting.   Other stories on the Education Links page.   Assignment:  familiarize yourself with WEBCT by exploring webct.com and read Leveraging Technology to Transform the Educational Experience.

January 24 -  Viewing of clips from Semi-Tough and The Breakfast Club.  Jenny's UnOfficial Breakfast Club Quotes Page -  Reading Assignmentw: Basic Overview of Stages of Group Development and the section on interpersonal communication from the Encarta Online Encyclopedia.

January 22 -  This will be our first class.  We will get acquainted, discuss the syllabus and course plans, and how to use the WEBCT system for submitting assignments.  An overview of the field of communication can be found in the Encarta Online Encyclopedia.  The first homework assignment is  Signing Up.  It must be submitted to WEBCT by January 30 at 5 p.m.  Here are instructions for Submitting Assignments to the WEBCT Assignment Dropbox.
     Regular attendance is essential in this class since our primary goal is to practice communication skills.  If you miss class, you are responsible to check this page for assignments.  There will be regular written assignments to be typed and brought to class or to be posted on WEBCT.  Any late assignments must be submitted to one of the two late assignment dropboxes on WEBCT.  No more than two late assignments will be accepted.  Grading in this class will be based on attendance, participation, written assignments and quizzes.  If you miss a quiz, check this WEB page within 24 hours for make-up instructions.  No more than one quiz can be made up for full credit.
 

Instructions for logging onto Chat Rooms:  Click on "Chat" on our WEBCT home page.  Click on the link for the appropriate class, either "Class of April 4," Class of April 7" or "Class on April 11". A window with a chat applet should open up  (I found that this works in Internet Explorer and Netscape 4.7, but not Netscape 4.71, but this may just mean something is wrong with my copy.)  Enter a message so we'll know you are there  You can do this from any Internet equipped computer, either on campus or elsewhere.  (I'll be on Whidbey Island in Washington State where it will be 6:05 a.m.).