HEALTH CARE LECTURE

DAUGHTER HELPING FATHER

The world is bombarded by images and blog posts.  To put things in perspective, look at the amount of data generated on the internet every minute.  Snapchat users share 527,760 pieces of content, Instagram users share 46,740 photos, 456,000 tweets are sent on Twitter, users watch 4,146,600 YouTube videos, and we send 16 million text message. https://www.domo.com/learn/data-never-sleeps-5?aid=ogsm072517_1&sf100871281=1

"The amount of data we produce every day is truly mind-boggling. There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day at our current pace, but that pace is only accelerating with the growth of the Internet of Things. Over the last two years alone 90 percent of the data in the world was generated." (Reported by Bernard  Marr, Forbes, May 21, 2018)

Navigating - and taming -this universe of content is a key skill for today's journalists, web authors, digital media professionals, and thought leaders and ordinary consumers.

The course is structured like a workshop or seminar: each class member is responsible for formally and informally contributing to discussions of readings, activities, and assignment. This class is a project-based course. This is not a web " web design" or " Information architecture " course, although design thinking and 

GRADES

ASSESSMENT

Grades are based on exams, quizzes, projects, essays

The project will be published as an ebook  

Personal Essay  & Introduction                   5 Points         Due 1/9/19    Noon

Ansel Adams & Gordon Parks Essay          5 Points         Due 1/14/19 Noon

Quizzes                                                              10 Points        Once a week

Curation Project Presentation                      5 Points        Due 1/24/19

Class Participation                                         10 Points

Blog & Updates                                                10 Points

Midterm                                                             15 Points

Final Exam                                                        20 Points

Ebook                                                                 20 Points       Due 4/23/19 Noon

Midterm Exam will be 15 questions

Final Exam will be 20 questions

Blogs must be updated ten times to receive 10 points

Class Participation Grades 

Students who attend all classes will receive 10 points; students will receive 9 points for missing one day, 8 points for missing two days, 7 points for three days and 5 points for missing four days.   Students missing five days without an excuse will receive an F.  

GRADE SCALE

90 to 100                      A

85 to 89                        B+

80 to 84                        B

75 to 79                        C+

70 to 74                        C

Calendar

(Based on the flow of the curation process)