-
Welcome!
My Learning Spaces (free sample lesson) -
Course Introduction (free sample lesson)1 Quiz
-
Module 1: Media LiteracyMediums and Contexts (free sample lesson)1 Quiz
-
Your Media of Choice (free sample lesson)1 Quiz
-
Managing Media1 Quiz
-
Top Stories1 Quiz
-
Module 2: Professional OpinionsInterview with Lieutenant General John Pickler5 Quizzes
-
Interview with American Politician Clark Boyd5 Quizzes
-
Interview with Career Journalist Amelia Hipps6 Quizzes
-
Module 3: Current EventsBackground Knowledge
-
Social Media
-
Productive Note-Taking2 Topics
-
Analyzing a News Story1 Quiz
-
Module 4: EditorialsThe Ant and the Grasshopper1 Quiz
-
A Retelling of the Ant and the Grasshopper1 Quiz
-
Grasshopper and Ant1 Quiz
-
Final Essay
Participants 24
Goal Tracker
Traditionally, schools provide a list of scores at the end of a grading period for students to gauge their level of achievement. This course includes not only traditional assignments, like quizzes and essays, but also creative project opportunities. Each of these experiences is part of the overall goal of accomplishing three main objectives. You can check your progress in your personal Goal Tracker at any point along the way. It’s a concise, streamlined list of activities and point values. Detailed feedback from your instructor is posted on assignment pages, while the Goal Tracker provides an overview of your progress and a quick glance at your status.
Live Connection
Everyone has different learning preferences. If attending class via a live, interactive, virtual meeting with your instructor and fellow classmates is the best way to spur you on in your educational journey, attend the optional Live Connections. These meetings typically last an hour. The central topic of conversation in a Live Connection is the required reading text, The Intellectual Life. We join habits of purposeful thinking to habits of media interaction, all within the context of current events. Discussing the news in a controlled environment with the aim of practicing the new thinking strategies communicated in the book is the best way to make sure the course content goes beyond theoretical ideas and achieves a practical application.
Idea Exchange
Throughout this course learners are invited to interact with one another about both the news of the day and the reading materials, videos, articles, lectures, and research adventures in each module.
Learners are regularly directed to discussion forums in the Idea Exchange. This is a private social group exclusively for enrollees. Free from distracting ads or off-topic posts, this group fortifies the course with a place to converse with classmates, answer discussion questions, upload videos and files, and form healthy, respectful relationships enriched by meaningful conversation.