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Contents 1 In-Class Activities: 4 December 2 Homework due December 6 3 In-class Activities: 6 December 4 Homework due December 11

In-Class Activities: 4 December

1. Small groups: Advertising, Women, Music, Sports, Media...discuss homework and confirm elements for individual powerpoint presentations to the whole class this Thursday.
2. Revisit our group construction of knowledge.
3. Making meaning (knowledge) from random bits of constructed information: related concepts in physics. History of Units: (Lecture 4: Slides 11-14) and Applied Logical Thinking (concepts and connections - Lecture 3: Slides 3-10).
4. What is your (single, one, specific, narrow, focused) cultural text?
5. What questions do you still need to ask?

Homework due December 6

• Powerpoint presentation on the bones of your semiotic analysis for your research paper.
• Help? Review the information covered during Week Eight.
• Want to improve your Annotated Bibliography by a letter increment? (e.g., from B to B+) Set your page up with sublinks (a Table of Contents) like Dolly! (Note that Com375 also made a pretty page, but Dolly's advantage is she can hyperlink each in-text citation directly to the bibliographic information. Slick!
• If you have time, go to your Wordpress Blog and "moderate" your comments by approving any on hold there, ok?

In-class Activities: 6 December

Please come to our regular classroom (no wikiday after all).

• We'll examine each of your paper topics in turn. YOU will tell us your cultural text and four functions... see the example we did with Evan's topic (he still needs an illustrative text):

"...we need to think about what we have written in this class means in terms of the bigger picture. Why has it been important? What kinds of questions can we ask in order to get to the meaning or “reading” of a certain cultural text?" ~ Anon136, [Writing as Communication http://anon136.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/writing-as-communication/].

Homework due December 11

"...'Creating a Conversation.

I find the name of that category very amusing because its not just a statement, but a prediction.
Now, if I actually went through and read everyones feedback post, I would certainly gain some very valuable
information that may relate to my own writting."

(elr6, Comment 23, Reading proportionately.

1. Please read keep talking soon. I hope the quotes - of your own wisdom! - remind you how to continue your research, writing, thinking, and writing for this final paper.
2. Last chances for baseline extra credit? Go read your peer's blogs. Add a comment or two or three. Meaningful, y'know? Add to the conversation.  :-) Then, login to your own Wordpress blog, return to "keep talking" and Reply, writing a short intro to the comments/topics/writers you engaged. Include links. If you do this in relation to your research topics, all the better, but that is not required.
3. Bring a powerpoint presentation and one hard copy of your next draft to class for a last round of peer review.