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Updated: 05/10/2010 Notes for Instructors
The AnswerTips™ feature has proven helpful, especially to foreign students. By double-clicking on any word on a page where this logo appears a definition will pop up. This feature requires a live Internet connection and JavaScript, and won't appear in Opera browsers or versions of Safari older than 3.0. AnswerTips™ can be further As in most of the interactive features on this site, your browser must be able to "do" JavaScript, which most browsers do unless you turn it off. (Go ahead, try it -- double-click on any word on this page.) Outside Reading Assignments
Although these outside readings regularly change, if students go to an assigned reading at roughly the same time, there should not be a problem. These readings are a good way to keep classroom learning and discussions as up-to-date as possible.
E-Mailing The Interactive Test Results
There are approaches of sending graded test results to instructors. Mac users you can use Safari and go to File, and Mail Contents of this Page, and
then fill in the instructor's e-mail address. Students can add their
own e-mail address so they will have a record of the results. Windows
users that have the new Internet Explorer 7 browser have a
similar option. Go to FILE, and SEND, and FILE BY E-MAIL. If this doesn't work, another option is simply to copy the contents of the results page and paste it into an e-mail to the instructor. Because e-mail programs and differ,
this procedure should be checked at your facility before alerting
students to the option. (Windows may have "issues" with this.) It is also possible in Windows to copy to send the results page of the interactive tests to e-mail to instructors with the Ctl.A, Ctl.C and Ctl.V sequence in Windows, or a comparable sequence on Apple computers. However, keep in mind that by using some of these techniques, it may be possible to edit the results before they are sent. Probably the most secure method (which doesn't actually involve e-mail) is to have students in a computer classroom print out the test results page using the print function on the page or in the browser. By including a security code given to the class or to individual students and checking the time on the printout, the instructor can be reasonable sure that the results are valid. (The security code can be any unique set of letters or numbers.) This method also gives the instructor a written record of all of the test scores.
Animation Issue
Yellow , Blue, Red, and Green Readings
Links that are not marked with a colored square
are considered self-explanatory. As an instructor it will be up to you
to assign whichever linked readings you deem appropriate beyond those
associated with the green squares (which are covered on the interactive
tests)..
Always Something New These cybertexts are, and
probably always will be, a work in progress. Nothing related to a
dynamic, rapidly changing field like mass communications can afford to
stand still. Having published texts in the area, I know that the moment
they are published, they are in some ways already out of date. The form of this cybertext has a number of advantages.
* Although this text is free, there's one string attached. If these materials are used in developing a career in television production, students need to "pay" for the material by at least once producing something to aid people or conditions in the world. Need some ideas? Consider this. If a student uses the cybertext and doesn't go into the field professionally, here is the "price." A textbook of this type would cost at least $50 (probably much more, if it had 800 or so color illustrations). Assuming that personal time is worth $25 an hour, the student should devote at least two hours to doing something positive and totally selfless for some person or agency. That's it. The text is paid for, and there should be no guilty conscience for using it. At this point I've received many messages telling me how students have "paid" for the cybertext. I appreciate these letters...and I assume that many have benefited as a result of these student actions. Ron Whittaker, Ph.D. Copyright Notice: Although you are free to use the materials directly from the Internet, the English, Spanish and Portuguese modules and illustrations are protected by U.S. and international copyright law and may not be reproduced in any other form. The rationale for the copyright limitations is explained here and here. To print them out for distribution, or to reproduce them in any other form (except for a single personal copy) is a violation of copyright and will violate our legal agreements allowing for the continued use of the materials. There have been attempts to modify these materials and use them in other contexts. To protect the continued availability of the materials I would appreciate your bringing any such violations of copyright to my attention.
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refined and expanded in a number of ways, including definitions in 16 other languages. The options include default, dictionaries, encyclopedias, synonyms and antonyms, and translations. Audio provides the English pronunciation. 
Files
in the link,
For several years we had a system of being able to automatically grade and send test results directly to instructors.
firewalls,
such as ZoneAlarm, shut off animated images. This will affect some
images on this site. (The dove on the left should be flying-although
not necessarily getting anywhere.) In ZoneAlarm animation can be
restored by going to Privacy, Ad blocking, Custom,
and uncheck the box animation. Other firewalls and browsers
have similar options.
) in front of
a link indicates information that's important to what is being
discussed. This information is covered in the interactive tests and
puzzles.
) in front of links indicates background reading. This
material is not included on the interactive tests.
) indicates technical information. This type of information
is designed for advanced classes and professionals, and, again, this
may or may be required by your instructor.
) indicates external links that have related information.
This information is not included on the interactive tests, but your
instructor has the option of asking that you read this information.
CyberCollege and the InternetCampus have no control over the content or
availability of these external links. 
