This Cycle is long enough to give you enough time to develop a substantial final website with plenty of links, multimedia and great content. The expectation is that you will utilize either Drupal or WordPress to create your site and need to show evidence that you have a fairly good understanding of which ever CMS you chose. Make sure you check the due dates so you can get everything in on time. For these assignments, there is no grace period for late assignments… we simply have run out of time.
- Due Nov 27: Please provide in the drop box in Canvas, a five-six slide PowerPoint presentation (with the URL link) showing screen shots of the significant pages from your final project site. I will be stacking these ahead of time prior to our Adobe Connect session so we can show everyone’s final project. I am asking for the slide show because this is what you will be uploading, along with your final reflections to Livetext. We ask that you upload these files to eliminate the need for you to keep the actual Website online but remains as an artifact entry for your e-portfolio.
- Due Nov 29 (7PM): We will be hosting our final Adobe Connect meeting for the term. You will get the chance to show off your final projects (using the PowerPoint slides), provide a few tips and techniques, and share your trial and tribulations with the product.
- Due Nov 30: We have two reading assignments this cycle. One asks for your comments about the future of the Internet, the other is an introduction to the concept of Net Neutrality. As we have so many things to do this cycle I am only asking you to comment on one of them. I introduce the Net Neutrality to you because it is in the news lately and you should have some idea as to what it is all about and the controversy surrounding it.
I saved this lesson until the end of the course because you may not have understood some of the terminology used in the Wikipedia article below prior to doing the readings from earlier in the semester. In short, the conflicted feelings tie directly to an earlier topic: Open Source and a free Internet (see if you can make that connection). I am not asking you to comment on it, but Wikipedia actually did a great job in covering the points in a non-biased way.- Here is the link to the final set of readings/lessons that you need to comment on:The Future of the Internet and supplementary materials. Some of the information is a couple years old but much of what is being said is still relevant. When finished, post an audio reflection on Canvas. PLEASE KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO TWO TO THREE MINUTES.
- Here is the link to Wikipedia page covering Net Neutrality. It is truly interesting reading. You do not have to make any comments but we may bring it up in our Adobe connect meeting.
In case you don’t get what the controversy is all about, here is an article/blog/commentary that explains it in fairly succinct fashion.
- Due Dec 02 (Two activities):
- If you have taken a class with us before you know how much stake we have in reading and absorbing your final reflections. We take them very seriously. We know there are some who do not like the fact that we utilize a separate site for providing course content. In this case it provides an opportunity to show off some of the features of WordPress. Let us know how you feel you did this semester, what were your most important/significant moments, what you feel you still need to learn and any others’ notes/comments in the interest of helping to improve this course. We look forward to reading your comments and take them to heart. You should post your reflection in the text area you make it easier to review and grade. It should be easier to write it up in a word processing document and then copy/paste it there.
- Post into Livetext your PowerPoint slides that you presented in the Adobe Connect session. On the title page (or on last slide) insert the link to your actual site. We are waiting until this date in case you decide on any changes as the result of the Adobe session.
Below is your final reminder regarding the specs for the final project: