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Project 2 Assignment
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and All My Sons
Project Description:
A local professional theatre company has selected to revive these two classic plays. They want to market them to small business owners who might relate to the characters and their situation. They are seeking to hire a consultant to design and run the marketing campaign. They have a budget of $5,000, not including the consultant’s salary. You need a job and something to put on your resume, so you applied. They have asked you to prepare a digital proposal.
Draft Due:
February 28, 2015 @ 11:59 PM
Project Submission:
Submit the project to your CIKeys blog. Once you have your draft ready for review, leave a reply on the Project 2 page. Your reply must include a link to your project and a screenshot of the project.
Digital Proposal Elements:
- A short introduction and overview video of your proposal;
- A written discussion for each play that discusses the themes you will emphasize in your promotional materials; provide text citations from each of the plays; incorporate outside sources drawn from reviews and commentaries about both plays; a link to your bibliographic citations – you may choose which style manual (MLA, APA, Chicago) to follow, but consistency in following it will be assessed;
- Discuss how you will promote the play across various digital and face to face platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc) and media (newspaper and radio); discuss potential group sales; discuss how you would leverage free advertising and the use of complimentary tickets.
- Budget detail;
- Images related to the plays and the promotional materials you’re considering.
Draft Grading:
The draft is worth 10 points (1/10 of your final grade). Late assignments will receive no points; missing elements will cause a deduction in points.
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Project 1 Assignment
Description:
The CI Drama program wants to produce one of these two plays (Good People and Detroit) and have turned to the Martin V. Smith School of Business for financial support. Both the Drama program and the Business school want a production well-attended by business students. Thus, you have been asked to research this issue and prepare a digital report with a recommendation as to which play should be produced and why. The report will be a part of the decision-making process as to which play is funded by the Business school and presented at CI. Students may collaborate in researching the issue, but each should write up his or her own report.
Draft Due:
Saturday February 14, 2015 @ 11:59 PM
Project Submission:
Submit the project to your CIKeys blog. Once you have your draft ready for review, leave a reply on the Project 1 page. Your reply must include a link to your project and a screenshot of the project.
Report Elements:
- Your recommendation;
- Compare/contrast the plot and themes of the two plays – after the first paragraph, you may provide a link to a Google Doc for the complete discussion; provide text citations from each of the plays; incorporate outside sources drawn from reviews and commentaries about both plays;
- Discuss how the play you are recommending would enhance course activities across campus – consider at least 2 different programs as well as GE courses (the CI catalog would be a useful source), a link after the first paragraph is preferred;
- Suggestions for promoting the play to the campus community and business and economic students in particular, a link after the first paragraph is preferred;
- Provide a link to your bibliographic citations – you may choose which style manual (MLA, APA, Chicago) to follow, but consistency in following it will be assessed;
- Images related to the plays; images should be used throughout the report to enhance the text.
Draft Grading:
The draft is worth 10 points (1/10 of your final grade). Late assignments will receive no points; missing elements will cause a deduction in points.
For related videos go to: http://cliftonjustice.cikeys.com/english-340/project-1/
Class Schedule
1/21 Week 1: Introductions Read materials on English 340 page
1/28 Week 2: Good People
2/4 Week 3: Detroit
2/11 Week 4: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Project 1 due
2/18 Week 5: All My Sons
2/25 Week 6: Raisin in the Sun Project 2 due
3/4 Week 7: Clybourne Park
3/11 Week 8: The Miser Project 3 due
3/18 Spring Break
3/25 Week 9: The Miser
4/1 Week 10: Cesar Chavez Project 4 due
4/8 Week 11: American Buffalo
4/15 Week 12: Two Trains Running
4/22 Week 13: Ruined
4/29 Week 14: Finals preparation Project 5 due
5/6 Week 15: Finals preparations
5/13 Finals Week E-Portfolio due at the scheduled final time
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Digital Idenitiy
I believe that digital identity is the persona that you present online. How you present yourself and the information that you portray, all has to do with who you are and the “persona” that you present online.
What surprises about the statistics, is finding out how much people spend their time online,
if you post inappropriate content online and if an employer or customer looks you up online that can make the company look bad.
You can create a positive online persona by thinking carefully about what you post online.
My Digital Identity
To me, having a digital identity means having some sort of presence online. In general, I think there are two different components to identity: how you identify yourself and how others identify you. I believe that digital identity is special because it doesn’t matter how you identify yourself on the internet, it only matters how others see you. Because of that, you have to put yourself in the identifiers’ shoes when participating in the digital world. Who the identifier is is completely up to you, but these articles suggest that you should think of these identifiers as your future employers, because statistically they are.
I was surprised to find that there were programs out there that could wipe clean your digital presence and how much money it costs, but I think I was more surprised that I was surprised. OF COURSE there are companies who figured out a way to remove people’s scandals from the internet. (Since there is an annual fee, does that mean that your scandalous video of you that someone leaked ever truly gone? Just a thought…)
One of the rules for my leadership position on campus is that we aren’t allowed to add our students on social media until the end of that academic year so that we may maintain professional boundaries. As an adult hoping to enter the workforce (me being a student leader being besides the point) it’s important to be extremely aware and conscious of what I post on the internet and that even if I do have a slip of judgement, and then go back to delete whatever it is, it’ll never truly go away. People say think before you speak, but I would argue it’s much more important to think before you type.
As far as creating a positive digital identity, I currently believe that I am. I personally don’t do or post anything that I wouldn’t show either of my grandmothers, but that’s mostly because between my two grandmothers, they’ve got tabs on my Facebook and Instagram. Honestly, it’s mostly for my peace of mind that there isn’t anything out there that I wouldn’t say out loud or show someone where as I know there are a lot of people my age who may worry about the wrong things falling into the wrong hands. I would like to make a LinkedIn page, after reading the article from the company that made the video, I saw a tip that said something about how a LinkedIn page is usually the first thing that pops up when you search your name on Google. There isn’t anything I have to hide on my Facebook, but I was 14 when I got my Facebook and there are some pretty angst-y song lyric statues and I would rather employers find my resume instead of my emo phase.
One World… Two Identities…
With technology becoming more and more prominent each day, it is nearly impossible for individuals to stray away from developing a digital identity. What is a digital identity? A digital identity is an identity constructed from information that is put forth on the internet about yourself. This digital identity can be viewed by anyone. Just because this identity exists in cyberspace does not mean it is not important. In today’s world, a digital identity can make or break your career.
While reading through the assigned articles, I came across an interesting statement. In the article titled Protecting Your Online Reputation: 4 Things You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC], it was mentioned that being digitally non-existent can actually affect you in a negative way. I always believed that it was the other way around. I thought that those individuals who had managed to not develop a digital identity were better off than those of us who had. My reason for thinking this was that those with no digital identity do not have to worry about negative information coming back to haunt them.
Being in a leadership position means that you have a spotlight on you at all times. You can no longer act carelessly; you have to lead by example if you truly want to fulfill this position correctly. One’s digital identity should be thought of in the same manner. One must watch what they post on social media (as well as what is posted about them). One must be able to talk the talk and walk the walk for others to truly respect them as a leader and take their advice seriously. Individuals in leadership positions can not be engaging in cyber bullying, nor can they be posting about drinking, drugs, partying, or anything of the like. They must act in a mature and professional manner.
Currently, I am active on a few social media cites. I believe that up to now, I have done a good job at creating a positive digital identity for myself. I plan to maintain this good identity and make it stronger. In this class, I will be creating my own website. There is were I plan to truly solidify my identity. I plan to use the techniques that I will learn throughout this semester to build a website that truly represents me, my achievements, and my goals. I hope that through my website, I will be able to create a positive digital presence that will assist in my hiring with future employers.
The Digital Frontier
Historians seem to have a practice where they give monikers to different periods throughout time. There was the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Gilded Age and the Industrial Age to name a few. Today, most of the world is in the Digital Age and in this new age there are new rules. New technology, like computers have no doubt changed the landscape. It could be called a new frontier. Yet, now we are having to come up with new rules to meet our new realties.
A digital identity is basically who you are if someone was only looking online. It is the perception that what kind of person you are in the digital zone, and it has a very real effects in the physical world. It is the combination of social media accounts, websites, google searches, and image results. The troubling part that I learned the more I read about digital identities was that not having a digital space can hurt you as well. I already knew that having inappropriate things posted about you could hurt an individual, but I was surprised that not having a presence could have real effects too. I was honestly, a little concerned because I am far from active on social media. For me a facebook, that is not under my full name and a Pinterest was practically the sum total on my online presence., both of which have strong privacy settings and can not be found easily. (The only picture that was me on google images is one of the first that came up-which is me at work.) Neither of which have anything more controversial than the fact that I like books, comic books, anime and do crafts.
While those are my interests, they are not strictly professional. As a peer leader I want to be connected to people. I am also looking at graduating soon and hopefully finding a job. I know now that I need to create a strong and positive online digital presence. Part of that will be making this site functional and professional looking. I want it to be positive so I will put my leadership skills and some of the projects that I am doing in the introduction graphic design class. It could prove my compendancy in both Photoshop and adobe Illustrator. These posts can also serve as a writing sample of sorts for any employer. One other things I will do is make a linked-in. I could use some help with that, but I am sure I can find resources. I will also update all of my Facebook information. I could create a official me Facebook page-none of the Facebook pages that appear are mine. I am still deciding if I should take further steps other than those three.
