Course Assignments

Hi Everyone

I hope you are enjoying the course so far. The following are your assignments for the break:

1. Post a link to our course stack on Delicious at least TWICE a week. It must be relevant to the course. Please tag your links with 'FAMWZ'  and 'social media'

2. Post your contribution to the blog at least ONCE a week. Your blog contribution must relevant to this course. It may vary from detailing your personal experiences in using social media to an analysis of social media usage in Zimbabwe. These are only examples,you may be as creative as you wish. At the end of the course your peers will evaluate your blog based on the following criteria:
 (i) relevance to the course
(ii) level of creativity
(iii) writing
(iv) how interesting the blog is, and
(v) your level of engagement with your blog audience.

3. Use your Google Reader account to subscribe to the course blog (click 'subscribe' then type http://famwz.blogspot.com ) (if you do not already have an account please open one at http://reader.google.com)

4. Check your Google Reader and the course Delicious stacks regularly. Your are expected to comment on the other participants contributions to both of these.

Google Accounts
It is recommended that you open an account with Google. We will be using Google services for the course, and it is preferable for them to be linked together. If you also open a Gmail account, please send your new email address to me so that I can update the class contact list.


Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about the course. You will gain access to the course wiki during the break.

Upenyu Makoni