Homework 4

Communicating Findings:
Set- up a Ning Web site for social networking

FOR homework #4 post the link to your ning page in the comments box in blackboard for homework #4 so that I may enter your grade!


Also sign up to http://sowk300.ning.com/

Required Reading & Viewing
http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/12/technology/candidates_socialnets/index.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6410264

This link is available in Blackboard and on the course website

1. Students will create a social networking site using the free online site http://ning.com

2. Each student will select a topic. The topic of the site will be chosen by the individual student. And the topic must focus on some aspect discussed or written about during class i.e. spanking, world oil prices, crime, etc..

3. Do not use dark colors for your site.

4. Submit in Blackboard for grading a working link to your social networking site by the deadline posted in the course calendar.

Minimum requirements of your site
You may only use Ning to set up your free social networking site http://www.ning.com/

1. You must have a minimum of 30 people to join your site (remember there are at least 30 people enrolled in both sections of the course – you can have other folks from outside of the course to join.) Everyone from your class section must sign up . For Example: if you are enrolled on SOWK.300.01 then all your classmates must join your site. This will help you get to know your classmates.

2. Provide links to at least 3 non-profit websites related to the topic you selected.

3. On your main page there should be a statement (that you researched on your own as to why social networking sites are important – what role or place do they have in society - min 500 words)

4. Include a statement about yourself (min 300 words) . Why you selected the major that you did, why you selected Tuskegee, etc…(min 200 words).

5. Add at least one element either music, video, photos or all 3 if you wish – keep it G rated!

6. Students will post at a later date their Annotated Bibliography on the main page of their site , include the abstracts and citations that were written for the assignment.

Communication Findings: Purposes of social networking sites

Social-networking sites have a bad reputation as places where people get together for no reason other than to collect friends and update their profiles obsessively, using terrible background images and embedded videos.
BUT...Social networks can be used to shine a bright light on individuals, corporations and the change agents who are working for the greater good. To inspire people to get involved, to reveal and help people understand the relationship between charity and community, to educate people about how to MAKE A DIFFERENCE and impassion them to TAKE ACTION; to give them a technology platform to enable that action.

Visit Example Sites

http://aspcacommunity.ning.com/

http://childabuseprevention.ning.com/


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