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Projects (aka quests)

Students will be able to choose from a variety of "achievements" or projects. Students will be graded by the number of achievements completed as well as the quality and feedback from the achievements.

  • Come up with 5 project/achievement ideas that get adopted by the instructor
  • Set up a blog and post every day
  • Set up a Twitter account and post every day
  • Twitter something that gets over 20 @ replies
  • Make over 100 useful edits in Wikipedia
  • Interview a person considered "notable" by Wikipedia
  • Write a story on the Internet that gets picked up by the main stream media
  • Find a significant error in reporting by the main stream media and blog about it
  • Write a story or make a video that gets linked to by one of the Technorati top 100 blogs or over 20 blogs or gets more than 20 comments by non-classmembers
  • Bookmark and annotate over 300 pages on delicious or any other social bookmarking service
  • Write an article that gets "dugg" over 20 times
  • Post a photograph that ends up on over 10 blogs or one main stream media site
  • Write a story with video, audio and text elements
  • Attend a press conference and cover it on a blog, video site or podcast
  • Interview the CEO of a publicly traded company
  • Interview a Japanese politician
  • Find a source/eye-witness for a current/on going story via twitter/FB/flickr and interview them "live"
  • Obtain a Journalistic network spanning over 10 different countries through social networks or similar
  • Get something slashdotted