Fundamentals of Digital/Online MediaMidterm Review

Cindy Royal, Ph.D

Associate Professor

Texas State University

School of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Exam Review

• This review is not meant to give you any answers but to point you in the direction of how you should prepare for the exam.

• This review will advance on its own. Each slide will be up for 15 seconds. It will repeat. There are a total of 13 slides.

• If you are on the Hangout, you can join at any time and ask a question. I’m here!

Exam Details

• Monday, July 22, in class at 2pm. You will have the entire class period to complete, but is likely to take 30 minutes or less.

• I will provide scantrons. Bring a pencil.• The exam has 50 questions. Multiple

Choice/TF. There is one short answer question for extra credit.

• You will not be allowed to use any outside resources during the exam. You will be asked to put away books, notes, laptops, phones, tablets, etc.

Chapters

• The exam covers chapters 1-6 in Journalism Next.

• Know any key terms• Re-read every chapter• Review the powerpoints that are all linked on

the Outline of the course site.• If we discussed it in class, it is likely to show

up on the exam.

Additional Presentations

• I did a few additional presentations. You should be familiar with these concepts

• Social Media Techniques – be familiar with all the terms you defined.

• Timeline – you don’t have to memorize anything/any specific dates. If we discussed it, it was important, so you should have a general idea of what happened to whom, when.

• What I Learned From Steve presentation – be familiar with what we discussed.

Videos

• You should have watched all videos by now.

• The Internet: Behind the Web

• Download: The True Story of the Internet

• Browsers

• Search

• People Power

• Game Changers – Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg

• Evan Williams Ted Talk

• They are all linked on the Outline if you need to review

Videos

You will not need to know very detailed items, but you should have some recollection of the things we discussed, major players, major events.

Social Media

Be familiar with some of the basic concepts/features of the social sites we have discussed or used:

• Twitter• Facebook• Instagram• Storify• Any other we have discussed

Web Design

Have a general understanding of tags and attributes in html, properties in CSS. Should be evident from our exercises. Know proper syntax and do some basic error checking

<a href=http://google.com” target=“_blank”>Google</a>

tag attribute attributevalue value closing tagtext

Include http:// for external links

Other Links

• Have a general understanding of the articles on the Outline that deal with YouTube, Wikipedia, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo, Location-based services, mobile etc. Read for overall meaning.

• Pew Reports – if it was an important details, we probably discussed and it is probably in a presentation.

News

If you have read and commented on each news item then you should be familiar with any of the overall issues we discussed so far.

In general

You should know about important people, companies and events:

Heads of all the major companies, Google, Yahoo, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube…

Major people involved with Internet

Who invented the Web?

Who was responsible for the first browser?

Understanding of roles of Microsoft and Apple

Evolution of social media

Social innovation of Napster, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Basically,

If you have been:•Keeping up with the reading•Attending class and engaging in discussion•Watching all assigned videos•Engaging in news discussion

You should ace it!

If you are watching this on the Hangout, I’m online. Join the Hangout and ask a question!