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Welcome to our class and our class blog!

In this assignment, you will practice the fundamentals of critical thinking via blogging about television and television genres. Your blog entries should reflect your thought process and your learning experience as you go through the course. In other words, your posts should be a thoughtful (and creative) expression of yourself. If you wish, you can complement the entries with images or other media.

Specifically, blog entries will be of two types:

• Open topic entries: You are free to analyze, comment and/or reflect on any of the topics and readings we will cover in class. You can also write about the show(s) you are analyzing for your class assignments. Be warned that mere description won’t meet my expectations

• Responses/comments to entries: A good blog builds a community. In that spirit, you should comment on the entries posted by your classmates or by me, be those open topic entries or responses to others’ posts. Your comments must be substantive and add to the conversation. In other words, merely stating “I agree” or “good point” is not nearly enough

You must write at least three open topic entries and five responses/comments during the term.

The open topic entries should be spread out throughout the semester. Therefore, I expect to find at least one new open topic entry written by each of you by 21:00 (9 p.m.) of each of the following days:

• 30 June
• 14 July
• 28 July

There are no partial deadlines for your responses/comments, just the final deadline, which is: 31 July at 9 p.m. I highly recommend you also write your comments throughout the term.