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* Research this topic and compose a 300-600 word wiki article   
* Research this topic and compose a 300-600 word wiki article   
* Create a user profile and post your article to www.appropedia.org (see [[#instructions|instructions]] below)
* Create a user profile and post your article to www.appropedia.org (see [[#instructions|instructions]] below)
* Make your page appear palatable and appealing with proper headings, photos, layout, etc. Be sure to caption your images and only use those that you have permission to publish (see [[#Help:Imagesl|for info on uploading images]])
* Make your page appear palatable and appealing with proper headings, photos, layout, etc. Be sure to caption your images and only use those that you have permission to publish (see [[Help:Images]] for info on uploading images]])
* Reference all sources properly with links (see [[Help:Footnotes]] for help on special wiki citation format)
* Reference all sources properly with links (see [[Help:Footnotes]] for help on special wiki citation format)



Revision as of 16:23, 16 February 2011

Introduction

Journalism and Mass Communication 330 (JMC 330), International Mass Communication, is a course taught at Humboldt State University by instructor Jessie Misha Cretser-Hartenstein. See course content and students below.

Appropedia Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to better understand the role that new media play in international mass communication and globalization from a grassroots level AND to employ your journalistic skills and adapt them to a global audience by publishing your own work on an international forum. The platform we will be using for this assignment is appropedia.org, a locally founded non-profit organization with global reach.

You will:

  • Choose a topic that interests you from your assigned/chosen country. The topic must be original, as well as relevant and applicable to Appropedia’s mission. Your topic could be a specific project taking place in your country, a profile of a relevant organization that operates in your country, an overview of a city/region that excels in some area of sustainable development or green living, a profile of a city/region that has a specific issue relating to sustainability, etc. See topics below for more information and examples
  • Research this topic and compose a 300-600 word wiki article
  • Create a user profile and post your article to www.appropedia.org (see instructions below)
  • Make your page appear palatable and appealing with proper headings, photos, layout, etc. Be sure to caption your images and only use those that you have permission to publish (see Help:Images for info on uploading images]])
  • Reference all sources properly with links (see Help:Footnotes for help on special wiki citation format)

Topics

Here are suggested topics with examples. Please pick just one topic.

  • Sustainable organizations in chosen country
    • AIDG - Guatemala and Haiti
    • Village Earth - Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Bosnia, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, Columbia
    • Demotech - Netherlands
    • Raintree-Foundation - Thailand (should be longer)

Instructions

If you are a student in this course, please do the following to start your project:

  1. Create a User Account. Consider using a name that represents you in a professional manner.
  2. Create your userpage using these instructions JMC330 post userpage assignment
  3. After creating your userpage, type a unique name for your topic (see the examples above) into the search bar to the left
  4. Click go and then create this page
  5. Copy and paste the following into your new page
  6. At the very top of your page (including the curly brackets):
    {{JMC330inprogress|May 15, 2011}}
  7. At the very bottom of your page (including the brackets):
    Category:JMC330 International Mass Communication and any other relevant categories, such as Category:Organizations

Pages in category "JMC330 International Mass Communication"

The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 223 total.

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Media in category "JMC330 International Mass Communication"

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