BA271 Week 5 Lecture: History of communications, peer reviews, wikis, open source sw, and new media

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BA271 Week 5 LectureHistory of communications,
peer reviews, wikis, open source s/w, and new
media

• Dave Sullivan

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Evolution of communication media

• Spoken words (pre-history)
• Written words (one-to-one)
• Printed words (one-to-many)
• Transmitted words (one-to-many)
• Transmitted video (one-to-many)
• Web (many-to-many)
• Social web (collaborative editing)

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General ideas about new media

• Wikis (Wikipedia)
• Open Source software (SourceForge)
• Social networking (Myspace )
• Video sharing (YouTube)

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Upcoming Schedule

• Thursday _at_ 10 a.m. Peer reviews of website
  projects
  
• Thursday Midterm
• Monday _at_ 2 p.m. Final website
• Several weeks from now Wiki Contributions
  (Optional)
  

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Peer reviews of websites

• Each person will review three other websites. The
  list of who-reviews-who is now on the BA271
  website.
  
• Written ideas go in a PowerPoint file.
• Visual ideas go in WMV videoclips.

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Video clips and movies

• Building and editing movies with a PC
• Building a Producer tutorial
• Recording a custom DVD using Windows Movie Maker

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Midterm exam

• Arrive at basement computer lab between 10 and 4
  p.m. on Thursday.
  
• Work through practice exam to understand what I
  have asked people to do in the past.

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Todays work sample

• Write a believable five-year plan for how you
  will add value to the collective storehouse of
  knowledge contained on-line.
  
• Put your name prominently at the top of the card.