NAME_______________________________

DATE_______________________________

WRITTEN PROJECT

In order to receive full credit for this assignment, follow all steps listed below carefully and turn it in on the due date.

In the margins, and at the end of each chapter in your textbook, the author provides a list of useful Web sites for further review. Your assignment is to select a site of your choosing that further explains, clarifies or helps demonstrate any or all student learning outcomes. It must be a “functional,” instructional site. No YouTube, MySpace or Facebook reviews.

Journalism 105 Student Learning Outcomes:

1)      Students will understand the functions, impact, effects and skills of various mass media that include, but are not limited to radio/television, newspapers, magazines, websites and the internet.

2)      Through study, students will become critical thinkers and intelligent consumers of mass media.

3)      Students will gain a working knowledge of the roles of mass communication in society.

1. In the space below specify which student learning outcomes your item(s) relate to. BE SPECIFIC.

2. Indicate the source of the item(s). Include:

     Web address:_________________________

     Site name: __________________________

     Student Learning Outcome No(s). _____________

3. Write a report that explains in detail why the site you have chosen relates to the student learning outcomes and how it pertains to a discussion of mass media. Be specific. The report should be NO MORE THAN two typewritten pages, double spaced. NOTE: No handwritten reports will be accepted. You will present your findings to the class in an oral report not to exceed three minutes.

4. Attach this sheet to the cover of your report.

5. Attach a printout of the Web page’s home page.