For your first assignment for the New Information Technologies group, please write a brief introduction about yourself for the group. Your introduction should tell us:

--Who you are
--Something you want to share about yourself (interests, background, etc)
--A bit of your experience with online technologies (Do you run a weblog? Do you use Facebook or another social networking site? Are you afraid of computers?)

Use the Create Assignment link above to write your entry, and mark it as "NITS: Website Submission" under course assignments.

In class we have been discussing the characteristics of New Information Technologies. Those characteristics help us both to be more specific about what NITs are and to identify why they might be important.

Your website submission assignment for this week is to identify one new information technology that you use and, drawing on one of the characteristics we have discussed, tell us what something about how that technology affects your life.  read more »

In chapter four of We Media, “Rules of Participation,” the authors suggest that people who participate in online communities (or networks) do so in order to fulfill certain needs, which may include (among others):  read more »

• Building status or reputation
• Creating connections with other people (”networking”)
• Making sense or building understanding
• Informing and being informed
• Entertaining others and being entertained
• Creating

To begin class, look at the OhMyNews! and New York Times websites (linked above). Examine the sites looking for elements that seem to you more or less participatory. In a brief assignment entry (using the Create Assignment link above), point out at least three features of each, and tell whether you see them as more participatory or less participatory.

For your next Kjourn website submission, due Monday 11 February, please write a short reflection (about two or three paragraphs) describing a community you are part of. In your description, consider things like: How you became a member of the community; who are the members of the community; how you communicate or interact with one another, and so on.

These entries will be part of our discussion about networks and community.

Submit the assignment by following the Create Assignment link and selecting NITs: Website Submission in the Course Assignments box.

After looking over the neweurasia.net and Teaching Online Journalism weblogs, write a brief (one or two paragraph) entry telling us something you observe or find interesting at one or another of the sites. Use the Create Assignment link to submit the entry, and select NITs: Website Submission as your assignment category.

edited 29 January 17.30

Important!!! I see that some students are submitting comments on this entry. That isn't what I wanted. What I want you to do is to look at other students assignment entries (you can see them all on our course assignments page) and submit a comment directly on one of the student entries.  read more »

In class we have been discussing the characteristics of New Information Technologies. Those characteristics help us both to be more specific about what NITs are and to identify why they might be important.

Your website submission assignment for this week is to identify one new information technology that you use and, drawing on one of the characteristics we have discussed, tell us what something about how that technology affects your life.  read more »

Today in class students will create accounts on our course website and have a brief introduction to using the site. We will also do our first Website Submissions assignment.

To register for the site:  read more »

1. Navigate to http://kjourn.net/groups/NIT/08spring (you should already be here)
2. Click on the "Register" link in the right sidebar