TODAY

1) Quick introduction2) Reading Activity3) Discussion4) A look at Candidate Facebook Sites vs. official sites5) More reference work6) Homework

Intro

I know we’re in that sort of dragging part of the middle of the semester, but over the last few classes, a number of you have gone silent. That’s not good.

So today’s activity is going to draw you out of that.

You read

For today, you read Kristin Arola’s “The Design of Web 2.0”

Instead of me saying anything about it, you’re going to break into groups of two (three if we need ONE group to be three. That doesn’t mean several groups of three).

You will be given a page of the article. Your job is to summarize the key points, come up to the teacher’s station, and type them into your respective PowerPoint slide. Then you’ll share them as we cycle through the slides.

Now

Equipped with that knowledge, we’re going to look at two things for each candidate: their Facebook presence and their official websites.

We’ll let the challenger go first.

http://www.facebook.com/mittromney?ref=ts&fref=ts

http://www.mittromney.com/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.barackobama.com/

Spend

The rest of class time looking for sources. You also have this time to talk to me if you have questions.

For next class, don’t worry about the readings on the schedule, but bring your physical copy of CCM to class with you.

Your forum assignment for the week is to pick one of the images posted last week and respond doing some visual rhetorical analysis based on what we’ve learned in class.