Week One, CCM367E

Here are the assignments for Week 1 of our course (April 2nd – April 8th) — these all need to be completed in Week 1 (so by Sunday April 8th). We have posted the assignments in this blog so that you can see how blog posts work, and become familiar with navigating a basic blog structure.

Click on the linked items below to complete. We recommend you complete them in the order listed below.

FIRST: Please introduce yourself in our Introduction Discussion Folder in the Week 1 Section on our Moodle course site.

NEXT: There are 3 questions posed in this week’s discussion forum on our Moodle course site. Please read the questions and respond to them and other students’ responses throughout the week. The assignments below will help inform our discussion, but you do not need to complete the assignments first. For maximum learning, the discussion should occur throughout the course of the week. Thanks!

LEARNING ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS:

1) Watch this Common Craft video about the definition of Social Media
2) Watch the latest in a series of videos by Eric Qualman on "socialnomics."
3) Watch this TED Talk from Clay Shirky.
4) Read this blog post from Brian Solis.
5) Join Facebook (if you haven’t already) and then “Friend” Alex and Joanne there. (After the course is over, we may all “un-friend” each other as desired.)

Optional: Become friends on Facebook with other people in our course (again, this is totally optional and up to each member of the course whom to accept Friend Requests from.)

Optional: Become a “Fan” of Marylhurst University’s Facebook page and the Shoen Library Facebook page.

6) Go to Moodle, read, and answer the discussion questions found in the Week 1 Section.