Writer Choice

41385Subject: Television
Choose between the following options as a way to present your chosen topic:
• Create an illustrated PowerPoint presentation OR
• Create a website
• If you choose to do a PowerPoint presentation, review the applicable PowerPoint presentation tutorials in the Week 3 and Week 5 Learning Resources.
• Research: This Final Project requires you to find examples to illustrate and support your work. You are required to use 8 sources in your Final Project. You should plan to find and include 4 when you submit your Week 3 Milestone and another 4 for the additional material required for the final submission due in Week 5.
• To organize your project, follow the outline of PowerPoint slides or website pages shown below.
• Again, for Week 3, you will complete part of the Final Project, as described below.
The assignment:
• In your presentation, you will demonstrate the evolution of your chosen form of media by accounting for or addressing the items below.
• Final Project Milestone (Slides 1–5). These slides or web pages are due in Week 3:
o Slide/web page 1: Identify the medium you have chosen and the reason for choosing that particular medium.
o Slide/web page 2: Analyze the evolution of your chosen medium. To do this, show how it has changed over time.
o Slide/web page 3: Evaluate the significance of your chosen medium. Describe how the significance of your medium has changed over time, as well. Has it become more or less significant? What other factors have influenced its significance?
o Slide/web page 4: Analyze how the evolution of your chosen medium affects the way you experience that media today in your career, in your community, etc.
o Slide/web page 5: Identify five important people who helped to develop or grow your chosen medium during its evolution. (In Week 5, you will analyze their contributions.)
Remember to include 4 sources for this part of your project. They can be included on a separate slide/web page at the end of your project called Sources.
Final Project Submission. In Week 5, you will build upon what you have already submitted by refining and adding to it. For the final submission, you will revisit slide 5 and add slides 6 and 7 to conclude your Final Project submission.
• Slide/web page 5: In Week 3, you identified five important people who helped in the development or growth of your chosen medium during its evolution. This week, analyze the contributions of these people to the history of the medium and add that information to the slide.
• Slide/web page 6: Make a summary statement about the effect of mass communication on people today based on the information collected for slides/web pages 1–5. Add a short bulleted list that highlights three predictions about where mass communication could lead people in the future.
• Slide/web page 7: Provide a total of 8 sources for your project. For all sources, record where you found information about them. Include all relevant information about the source (author; date of publication; the book, article, or website; etc.).