For starters, this is not a requirement of my ENGL 101 course this semester--the project was fully completed in ePortfolio, but a few students have also decided to contribute here.
Taking your ideas out of the classroom and doign something with them, whether it's sending them into a peer reviewed journal, writing a letter to the editor of your local paper, or creating a blog of your own, exemplifies both the need and the reasoning behind general education courses like the ones I commonly teach. Taking your ideas out of the classroom is what we are meant to do. Some students refuse to see the connection between general education and the larger world. They might think that just because they can't see a direct link between the exact job they want to get paid to do and the reading assignment for this week, that they aren't learning anything useful for themselves. I couldn't disagree more. To those students I say ask not how specifically your class relates to you, but how you can apply the skills from a class over different areas of your life.
However, this assignment isn't really about me. And, whether or not you and I see eye to eye is neither here nor there when it comes to getting the academic job done. Your mission for the next part of this assignment is to transform your ePorfolio version into something more blog appropriate, complete with links and perhaps an image of some sort. In a way you will be translating your already written analysis into [an even] web-friendlier version that truly adds to the larger conversation[s] (of consumerism, advertisements, gender, and anything else the commercial you've chosen touches upon) by being a part of this open blog.
I am awarding an extra credit daily grade to all who post their Project 3 assignments. I'm also offering a few points added to the Project grade of your choice to the post who gets the most views before May 4--points to be awarded during finals week. The blog post with the most comments (good comments) will also earn a few extra points on a Project grade, so create a tiny url and post it to your networking sites of choice--comments can come from classmates, UWP folks, family, high school friends, Facebook acquaintances... you get it. There will only be one "winner" for each category--meaning all 101 students between the 007, 009, 010 classes are competing for the extra points.
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