For Friday

Hello all,

Today we started the class with an exercise from Charles Schultz (via Caitlin). The exercise focused on the individuals that affected your self-development and effected your day-to-day lives.

We then shifted into our discussion of Richard Miller. Breena mentioned that the images on the screen were juxtaposed oddly with the audio, and that it caused some dissonance in "reading" the piece. Dean highlighted that the message in the video was spot-on, and Dean mentioned that teachers need to teach students how to evaluate the resources on the web. Caitlin supported some of Breena's concerns about the images on the screen and the message on the screen. Blaze asserted that he agreed with the ideas that people need to keep in mind when they are using the internet. Blaze observes that the internet is still someone's ideas, so you must cite the material. We then shifted to a discussion of the internet at cultural text that could be discovered by someone in the future. We discussed what people would think of this text. Peter suggested that Porn would be one of our cultural indicators, along with celebrities and consumerism. Felicity made a spectacular observation that the future people would think that celebrities were our gods.

We moved from this discussion to talking about framing our abstract ideas into a statement. In this "abstract," you will need to address the context, the problem, and the launching point of your exploration. Each of the three sections should be around 2-3 sentences, and you can use metadiscourse i.e. I will explore or this exploration focuses on. The context is what, why, how, when, where, etc of your area. The problem is the issues that you see being expressed in the image or in your area of exploration. The launching point is your role in the area of exploration or topic. You will need to post this on your blog by Friday.

We shifted from this discussion to a discussion on using databases. We used proquest through the Expand Academic link on the library website. We talked about how to cite i.e using MLA-knightcite.com or easybib.com or citationmachine.com or just using the "cite this" link. You need to locate three more sources for class on friday. You will need to post these 3 and 6 sources on your blog in proper MLA format.

For Friday:

Post your abstract on blog
Post your 3 and 6 sources in MLA format on your blog.

Take care, and thanks,

Kat