Activities for Thursday March 11

> Remember for Tuesday: draft of essay (the final essay is 2000 word minimum, not including Works Cited; the draft should be as substantial as you can make it), for review in class. The draft should be posted or written in Google Docs and linked onto your blog.


The very first YouTube video, from April 23rd, 2005.


Noah's YouTube Portrait over 2356 days.

> YouTube is the 4th most visited site on the net, after Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook. Write a blog post on how the "author" is constructed on YouTube. You don't need to discuss Facebook, but keep in mind the comparison to last class' discussion, where we decided that Facebook focuses on the author as 1) a dense network of relations and 2) as a bundle of attributes. How is YouTube different? Why is it called YouTube? How does the site work? (For example, how does it make money?) How does the medium (YouTube) structure the message? Write your blog post exploring how YouTube constructs authorship.

> The language of your essay.

• Focus on links and connections at the paragraph level. Every paragraph ends with an idea that links to the next paragraph. Every paragraph begins with an idea that carries from the previous paragraph. Follow the MEAL plan: Main idea, Evidence, Analysis, Link (to next paragraph). The MEAL doesn't necessarily have to be in that order but should include those in every paragraph.
  
• Focus on incorporating your materials, including the annotated bibliography and the ideas from the trail. Work on summarizing each primary material/source, then describing ideas emerging from this, then making links.

> Hear about some projects, starting with "punch lines" (which is also the hook, the deep point being made)

> Work on collaborative document (if there's time)