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Welcome to the UNSW B.Media-program “Analysing Media Communication” (mdia2002) blogsite.

NOTE! there are some added tips pertaining to your Minor Assignment posting (Human Interest story) below: cruise down to asterisks*****  Some of the points made there are fairly obvious or have been made before, but we reckon it’s advisable to double check that you meet all the technical requirements associated with posting your work. This will ensure you avoid having your work marked down on account of technical issues.

To read material already posted to the site, simply click on the “All blog posts” tab above. To go to a page with the postings of just the members of your tutorial group, click on the appropriate tutorial identifier (e.g. M16A, H10A, etc) under “categories”, on the right-hand side of this page.

NB: When submitting a post, you must make sure that you post to the correct CATEGORY.
-what is the correct category? – it is the identifier of the tutorial group you belong to.
The identifiers you should use are as follows:
Monday 4.30pm tute = M16A
Tuesday 9am tute = T09A
Tuesday 10.30am tute = T10A
Wednesday 10am tute = W10A
Thursday 9am tute = H09A
Thursday 10.30am tute = H10A

- check the correct category in the sidebar to the lower right of the posting panel – you will see them listed together under “tutorial identifiers”.

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For the “Human Interest Story” minor assignment, please also check the “MinorAssignment(Human Interest)” category, and also supply your name as a “tag”.
You can add this “tag” by writing it in the box to the right, next to the place you input your post, and clicking “add”…. If you’ve already added your name as a tag previously, it will come up as a possible tag again while you are ‘adding’…

As with the previous posting, don’t forget to give your post a good title. Those submissions which are only titled using a name and tute group for example, will be immediately down-graded: the instructions already tell you to add your name and tutorial group via tags and category membership, so no need to waste the title on boring details.

Furthermore, part of the assessment for this assignment rests in your ability to follow the brief criteria, and to check you have worked out how to use the technology. Posting to a blog is not difficult, but there are pitfalls. For example, you should not attempt to upload large digital photos. Before uploading, save your file to one suitable for emailing. Even an image as compressed as 300KB can be successful on a blog – but larger ones can “break the theme” and make your post look messy.  You may also find that, if the file is too large, the blog file-upload facility will actually prevent you successfully completing the upload – i.e. there are set limits to the size of files which the blog software will accept for upload. It is advised that you check what your post looks like after submitting, and if you need to make changes, go back and edit it!

Remember too that, with all blogs, the time you make your post is date and time-stamped, so do make sure you get your assignment done before midnight on Monday May 3rd. Also, it may be wise not to leave it till the last minute – if many people try to post all at once, the server may not cope, and you will all be TOO LATE!

BTW:
You don’t need to limit your posts to material associated with assignments and tutorial preparation. Feel free to use this site to post any thoughts, insights, observations you might like to make about the media in general, or to provide links to interesting media-related online material you may have chanced upon, or even post articles you are working on, such as feature articles or creative writing essays, etc, which you might like to be considered for publication in the UNSW media-comm-zine to come…..

When you post, though, try to find an appropriate category from the list provided – this will make it easier for readers to find blogs on topics which interest them – and if it is not for any assessment task, then you are free not to check your tute group at all….You may also supply your own tag, as you see fit…. and if the same tags are appearing over and over, then this means there may be a need for a new category!

Of course, any queries on these matters may be addressed via comments to this thread.

Happy posting!

Registering to post to this blog

Before you can post to the site you need, of course, to register as a user. If you haven’t already done this, simply click on the “register” link and follow the instructions. When registering you can supply any “username” you want – there’s no connection here at all with any university user names, logins or passwords which you may previously have set up. However, please do supply a university email address when you register – i.e. one which includes …unsw.edu.au. We need this for security purposes and avoiding spam.

Once you have registered, you become a “subscriber”. That means you can read the posts, receive RSS alerts, and make comments on posts, but you cannot “post”….

In order to be able to make new posts, you need to be “author-ized” by the administrators. While your subscriber status occurs almost immediately, your “author” status upgrade may not occur until many days later depending on what the admin team are doing. Contrary to popular belief, people are not computers, and they may not be permanently online. Therefore you need to register several days in advance of your tutorial posting 2 due date.

After you become a bona-fide “author”, you will then see on the sidebar a link to “site admin”. This will open the dashboard page, and from there you will see a left hand sidebar with a variety of links, including “posts”… from there on it is all pretty straightforward….

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