Hum/176 Week 1

Hello thank you for your submission this week. Here is some feedback to help you measure your assignment contribution versus what was expected in this assignment. revel see the following as a chair for how your responses measured versus the ideal retorts to this activity. grant News Media, extract 1 Toolwire Learnscape Credibility and carry on Purpose of Assignment In this Learnscape, school-age childs take on the role of substitute Speech put outr for Senator Owen jakesson.Students affair the earnings (via a creation of Content consisting of 12 grades hosted on the Toolwire system) to secernate credibleness issues related to the use of mesh guinea pig as it pertains to political issues. In doing so, they also cast to discern which sources ar most credible and be able to substantiate this. The educatee is also asked to check over a speech outline from the senator and preserve an previous paragraph addressing the effect of the Internet on politics.Resources necessitate Toolwire Learnscape Credibility and Impact Grading Guide estimation A Part One Credibility and Impact Exploring the Internet and Politics Summary This interaction is the beginning(a) sort of the assessment (Part A). The student opens the InVision original person coating and uses a drag-and-drop list to assess the credibility of the settles from the genuinelyity of Content dashboard.When the student has completed the drag-and-drop list, they close the InVision Pro applications programme and their BlackBerry Smartphone rings with a television system mention from the senator. Character Text InVision Pro book of instructions Indicate whether each Web site is credible by dragging and dropping your Application answer from the list at the left. Student drags yes or no to the presumable? column from a list to the left of the table. The why? column will automatic tout ensembley populate with notes from the Notepad of the Universe of Content inte raction. When finished, the student is prompted to close the application. Completed table should manner like the below (answers) Website Credible? Why? The grind Report No News aggregator travel by by known conservative Matt cut into Certainly, he has his own agenda, but could someone take over Drudge to promote or bury a story? Daily Kos No The largest modern community web log in the United States What are the qualifications of the posters? Do they research their posts or just rave opinions? The Huffington expect No Named after founder and editor-in-chief, Arianna Huffington Her individualized views drive the content, which leans quite liberal. POLITICO Yes It nips like it tries to quail at a bit deeper than mainstream media.The fractional parole, half blog format whitethorn make it hard to bet out what to take at face value. salon Yes Self-described award-winning o nline news and entertainment website. Forbes calls it smart and provocative. Its well respected, but where does the entertainment end and the news begin? Whats written to deliberately heighten? Colbert dry land No Is this truth or waggery? When comedy is the goal, can you ever tell whats real and whats skewed just for a laugh? The Hill Yes Nonpartisan, nonideological with the largest circulation of the Capitol Hill newspapers This is where Congress gets its news. Could it use its influence to sway political insiders? The Nation Yes This site has been reporting since the Lincoln administration. The mission is clear The Nation will not be the organ of any(prenominal) party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest causal agency to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and magic by which so muc h of the political composition of the day is marred. from The Nations founding prospectus, 1865 That is tough to argue with. Red, fleeceable and Blue No Environmental politics from crossways the spectrum likely a bias towards only observation stories that support their position on the environment. Crooks and Liars No John Amatos blog All opinions with some references to real news outlets. scarcely where are the facts? The Washington Post Yes The radixtown newspaper of national politics A batch of Pulitzers gives WaPo all the credibility it needs. The New York Times Yes internationally acclaimed, you cannot get more respected than The Gray Lady. But that doesnt mean there will never be bias or a fighting of interest. Assessment A Part Two execute the Senator to the highest degree Credibility, (at Student Office) Credibility and Impact Exploring the Internet and Politics Summary This i nteraction is the second half of the first part of the assessment (Part A). The student receives a video call on their BlackBerry Smartphone from the senator.After a brief hello interchange, the senator asks the student to comment on credibility issues pertaining to using entropy from Internet sources. The student answers via a 140-character short-answer format. After the student sends that information, the senator will call back to acknowledge receipt. When the student hangs up, the scene transitions to the students apartment. Character Text Senator Owen Wow, thats fast.Now that youve through the legwork, I need you to comment on credibility Johnson issues pertaining to using information from Internet sources. What do you theorize? Student (via Answer should include You should look for more information about a Web site, as its short-answer text often not obvious whether its nonpartisan, leans left or right, or even employs box) professional journalists. To re ally find out if a site is credible, you often have to look past the home page.Many sites have a long track evince of credibility, but that does not exempt them from any and all possibility of bias, conflicts of interest, or misreporting in the future. The worlds greatest news outlets all make mistakes sometimes. You should look at ein truththing with a grain of salt. Someone may leave out a fact by accident, bury a story that puts a ace in a bad light, or set off something deliberately false to advance their career. Assessment B Writing the Speech, (at Student Office) Credibility and Impact Exploring the Internet and Politics Summary This interaction is the second part of the assessment (Part A). The student is in their office to write the introductory paragraph for the speech. The student opens the outline so that they may use it for reference. They then open a new document in the InVision Pro application and write a short-answer essay (100- to 350- words) in the application. Per the senators instructions from his netmail, the student then attaches the document to an e-mail to the senator. When the student clicks Send, the interaction is complete. Character Text InVision Write Pro The student must write a short-answer essay (100- to 350-words) as the introductory paragraph to the senators speech about the effect of the Internet on politics. Answer should include Politics now change very rapidly.Politicians must be able to react speedily to what is happening in the world. More voter confederacy in Internet media provides politicians with more information about what Americans want. Internet technology allows politicians to reach more people, more often. Written Response Answers Vary Students provide a 250 word response providing an explanation as to whether or not the information media have social responsibility.