You’re into the challenging part of the course now.  Or rather, the ‘get out what you put in part’.  But it’s also exciting, because if you can find some useful ideas to help you reach an audience, you are creating very valuable knowledge.   If nothing works, that’s ok too – treat this as a test run for your last assessment task, and future projects…

Discuss:

Follow up from this week’s lecture: discuss your view of the current U.S Presidential campaigns (or another current issue), and what sources have helped shape this.

Exercise:

Choose one of your top 5 from last week, or another resource that you have come across since then.  Make them a present.  Not quite a present, but make something that you can contribute to that site, page, blog, whatever it is.  A simple approach would be to engage in a conversation, a more interesting one would be to produce an artefact; a meme, video blog, a photograph, a song, whatever you think might be appropriate.

There are a couple of assumptions being made here; firstly, that there is some sort of conversation to participate in.  Secondly, the more interactive the resource, the more options you have to contribute.  At this point, you may need to revise your list, and find a more appropriate resource to work with.

Suggested Blog entries:

• Post(s) about the process you’ve gone through in making your contribution
• Similar to last week, consider whether or not the sites you’ve chosen are ‘communities’, and what you think this means
• Check out Cowbird, and examine how these stories work, and how they are shared