4. Your first post

Now that you have created your blog, what are you going to do with it?

Your responsibility will be two-fold:

1. You will be required to post an original, critical comment at least once a week between now and the first of May. Your topic choice will be up to you, and can be quite varied or stick with what we are working on in class. It must focus on a media issue, media text, the mass media or media literacy.

2. You will be required to comment on at least one of your classmate's blog posts once a week, between now and the first of May. Links to your classmates' blogs will be found on this central blog.

First, have some fun decorating; add pictures, videos and links and fill in your personal profile (remembering of course that these will be publicly viewed - so no really personal information should be put for public viewing).

Once you are done that, we'll get down to using the blog to critically evaluate the media and what we are consuming.

Start today by writing a response to the media consumption survey we did together in class and comment about your own use of the media.

Which texts do you depend on daily?

Which texts do you not seem to have time for? WHY?

Ultimately we'll start by evaluating how much you depend on media; and how much does the media depend on you for income?

Before you leave the class blog - review the rules on the next posting. . . 5. Blog Rules. You will be signing and submitting a contract with these rules on it. Be sure you can follow them before you sign.