J255 Media Literacy and Civic Values
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Format
Terminology matching – 40 percent
Short answer – 60 percent
Weight
This exam comprises 25 percent of your final grade
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Where to focus your studying efforts…
BlackBoard reading
Chapter 2, “The Medium is the Mass-age” (focus on concept of flow)
Digital Media Basics, Trip-Ups, and Quick Fixes
Reading a URL
File Management 101 & 102
Online readings
How users read on the Web
Website reading: It (sometimes) does happen
Mobile content is twice as difficult
Alt-text and SEO
Lecture
Feb. 5 – Skeuomorphism
Feb. 15 – Flow
March 10 – Net neutrality (PowerPoint posted to BBLearn)
April 14 – HTML code basics <strong> <ol> etc.
April 14-26 – Web basics
April 28 – Accessibility
May. 12 – Synergy & Convergence
Terms
Net neutrality
Skeuomorphism
TCP/IP
HTTP
HTML
RSS
SSL
SFTP
File sizes (smallest to largest)
SEO
Top-level domains (purpose and examples of)
Domain names
Tags (bold, italics, bullets, numbers, indent, close tag)
Named anchor
Alt-text
Banner blindness
Z pattern
F pattern
Golden triangle
WYSIWYG
File naming standards
Concepts
Net neutrality
ISPs
PSPs
Notable bandwidth hogs
How does net neutrality have the capacity to affect ISP and PSP users?
(Hint: Has to do with tiered service)
What state of mind does digital media promote?
Web accessibility – particularly Section 508
Web user-friendly writing – what can be done to improve reading comprehension
on digital devices?
File & folder naming standards
How to read a URL
Reading on the Web
Basics of HTML code
Media convergencence
Technological convergence