FINAL EXAMINATION
New Media Literacies
Fall, 2011
This is a two-hour, open-book, open-note examination, held in Tuttleman 201 computer lab. Put all your answers in the space provided. There are three exam questions. Please review all questions carefully before beginning the exam. Use your time wisely. If you have any questions about the exam, raise your hand and the exam proctor will assist you.
1. Digital Dialogue: Online Collaborative Writing
In this exam question, you will work with class team members and use Google Docs to create a written dialogue between your team members, responding to a video and making connections between the key ideas expressed in the video. Compose your dialogue to capture a realistic online conversation where you interpret the video, make connections to the course readings, raise questions, and reflect on the implications of these ideas for your personal life, your career and the future.
View the video:
Please note: You must do all your collaboration digitally without face-to-face oral communication in the classroom environment. You can use any online tools that help you get the job done. Be sure to give your written dialogue a catchy title, a headline, a byline with the names of the authors. Post a link to your completed document on our wikispaces home page in the space provided. Team members are listed here:
Group 1
Dan Magerr
Lorraine Childs
Keaton Nichols
Group 2
Conor Schnarr
Kaneisha Woods
Scott Stitzer
Group 3
Luis Cruz
Chloe Westman
Fred Staffieri
Group 4
Marvin Flambert
Karen Kisher
Corey Abramson
Group 5
Kevin Phillips
Genevieve Gillespie
Robert (Chaz) Flores
Group 7
Rich Becker
Jaleesa Jackson
Seth Phillips
Group 8
Ashley Blakeney
Josh Widener
Bi-Hsuan Chien
2. Write a Review
Compose a written review of a classmate’s final website for this class, according to the partner list shown below. Offer warm and cool feedback as a public comment. Consider the questions below as you compose feedback:
A. Focus Theme. What is the thesis statement of the website and how does the website relate to the key ideas explored in the course?
B. Warm feedback. What are the strengths of the web project? What ideas and information are most important and memorable? How has the author established credibility? What are the most effective messages, content and design features?
C. Cool feedback. What are the
limitations of the web project as it is constructed here? What ideas and information seem irrelevant or
unrelated to the key ideas of the course? What needs to be improved?
For this question, you place your exam answer directly on your partner's web page. If your partner has created a Wordpress blog, use the “leave a comment” function to post your feedback. If your partner has created a Wikispaces page, place your comment at the bottom of the project’s home page.
Partners:
Dan Magerr – Conor Schnarr
Lorraine Childs – Kaneisha Woods
Keaton Nichols - Scott Stitzer
Luis Cruz – Corey Abramsom
Chloe Westman – Marvin Flambery
Fred Staffieri – Karen Fisher
Kevin Phillips – Rich Becker
Genevieve Gillespie – Jalessa Jackson
Robert (Chaz) Flores – Seth Phillips
Ashley Blakeney - Josh Widener
Bi-Hsuan Chien – choose a project of your choice to comment on
3. Analyze a Media Message
View the commercial available at:
Using the Google form provided here, watch the video, then answer the questions. Since you’re working online, you can use the Internet to gather information if necessary. But be sure to use information from the video to address each question. Where appropriate, make a specific connection to at least two authors we have read this semester.