Sunday, November 01, 2015

Year 13: Folder check and NDM homework update

As we are at the half-way point in our New and Digital Media and News unit, we need to set a couple of pieces of homework that check we are keeping up to date with all the work so far. This means a folder check and creating an index of all our NDM homework stories so far.

Folder check
On Friday you need to bring an up-to-date folder to the lesson to show you are organising all of your notes, work, test papers and more. Specifically, we will be checking you've got the following:
  • Ring binder folder or equivalent
  • Dividers - section for each teacher
  • Course outline/ print from spec
  • Notes in chronological order/title/date
  • Quality of note taking
  • Blog print-out - to end of last half-term
  • Marked NDM assessment
  • Homework completed/quality
Due: Friday


NDM stories
Now we've covered half of the NDM News unit, we need to develop our collection of the NDM stories. Your ongoing, weekly homework from now on is as follows:

TWO New/Digital news stories on your blog EVERY week (including holidays). ONE can be general NDM (technology, social networking etc.) but you need AT LEAST ONE story every week that relates to news, journalism and New/Digital Media. Great examples of stories that fit this criteria have appeared in just the last few days:


Due: EVERY week on Friday (13C)


Task for this week

Compile an index of ALL of your NDM stories from the first half term. This homework was set on Friday 11 September which means you should have a minimum of 16 stories in your index this week. 

Your index should have the story number (starting with your first story back in September as #1), the headline and a link to your blog post for that story

If you want to see an example, check out this blog post from one of our past students - you need this level of quality and detail in your story index too. (Incidentally, she went on to a get an A in Media - and you can see why).

Due: Friday

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