Reading for Tuesday, 3/25

Thanks for a fun movie day today...

On Tuesday, we will be discussing BRAVE in relation to Peggy Orenstein's Cinderella Ate My Daughter.

You can find it in the online reserves under WMST 200.

Please post your blog on both of these texts...

Final Project Models

This is a link to the final projects from GEND 354 from 2011. 

Some are better than others (not all of these followed the rubric well or got As). 

But they are ideas about how to approach this project with your group.

FINAL PROJECTS 2011

No reading this week....

Hi everyone.... hope you had a good break!

There is not reading assignment for 3/18, but we would like you to start thinking about your final project in this class.

The midterm project was designed to help you show us what you have learned up to this point and it focused on the ACADEMIC TEXTS as the center of the product, with media and digital tools surrounding it.

The final project is also a chance for you to show us what you know, but it will use a MEDIA TEXT as the center of the project, with the academic texts and digital tools surrounding it.

(In many ways, the final project is just an extended Media Artifact:  choose a text or media site about teenagers that appeals to you and spend some time analyzing how it teaches us about teenagers in relation to everything you have learned this semester.)

More details in class, but for now, just start brainstorming what kind of media text you want to choose.  Anything goes as long as it focuses on representations of teenagers. PLEASE POST YOUR IDEAS ON YOUR BLOG AS YOUR WRITING ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS WEEK.

Reading for Week #6

The reading for next week (Feb 26/28) is by Dr. Mike Wesch. 

You can read the article here...  or you can choose instead to watch Dr. Wesch deliver an 18 minute TEDx Talk that talks about the same issue.  Use one of these texts as the focus of your blog.



You might also want to take a few minutes to check out his website and see what it looks like to use/respect media as a way to help students learn and produce NEW, ALTERNATE REPRESENTATIONS of knowledge.

VDAY

Vagina Monologues, Feb. 15 and 16 

The Vagina Monologues is just one of many events held worldwide as part of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. Don't miss this great performance on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15 and 16., at 7 p.m., in Gaige Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for RIC Students, $10 for nonstudents and advance tickets are available in the Women's Center, Donovan lower level. This is sponsored by Feminists United, the RIC Women's Center and the RIC Gender and Women's Studies Program.

Figuring out my blogger account

In every post the text must be 300-500 words.

In every post, I want you to have a link to a website that is relevant and useful to the thing you are talking about.  Like feminism.

 In every entry, I want you to play with pictures.

Questions or comments for class:
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