NDM indexes: half-term 1 recap

We are half-way through our new/digital case study into the news industry and need to create an index to ensure we are keeping up with the workload. 

After half-term, we will be covering additional aspects for our case study, writing another MEST3 Section B essay and preparing for the next formal assessment in January. 

NDM News index

In today's lesson you need to create an index of all of your work so far for New/Digital Media and News. 

This process is an excellent start to your revision for the MEST3 exam in the summer and will also highlight if you've missed anything through absence or trips. Your index should include the following:

1) Institution: the impact of Google on the newspaper industry
2) Ofcom report: how news consumption has changed
3) Baseline assessment: learner response
4) The future of newspapers: Build The Wall analysis
5) The decline of newspapers: the effect of online technology
6) The decline of newspapers: Media Magazine case studies
7) The future of journalism: John Oliver and Clay Shirky


For your index, the text should link to YOUR corresponding blogpost so you can access your work on each aspect of the case study quickly and easily. This also means you if you have missed anything you can catch up with the work and notes and won't underperform in the assessment due to gaps in your knowledge.



NDM story index

You also need to update your separate index of ALL of your NDM stories so far. This homework was originally set on Monday 11 September which means you should have a minimum of 12 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 - guidance for the original task from September (with top-level examples from previous years) is here.

Remember, every story you post needs to be on a separate blogpost and the link in the index should go to YOUR blog post on that story, not the original article itself.

Index due date: anything you don't complete in the lesson needs to be posted by your last lesson before half-term.