This week for your individual blog posting: Write a review of any cultural event (movie, play, concert...) This means get out and do something! Have fun, but take notes and observe. [If your blog does not yet appear int he right hand column under Blog List, please email me your url (http://blablabla.blogspot.com/) and I will add it to the list].
Meanwhile, I will be in Atlanta, hopefully having lots of fun, but also participating in and observing a national conference in my field. I plan on blogging here about my observations about "conference culture."
What else should you be doing while I enjoy the warm weather in Atlanta?
- Visit the site (by yourself) you visited with your research partner in class Tuesday and take more notes. Afterward, re-read your notes from classtime, and comment on them in the blank column. Contact your research partner (you can email through blackboard just by selecting their name) and share what you noticed.
- Start visiting a site for your subculture and taking double-entry notes (ignore syllabus that says do Box 6; you are doing this instead) like you did in class today. If you are having trouble deciding on a site/subculture, pick one. Visit it, and if it does not yield much observational information, try another one at another time. Take notes regardless. You should visit this site a few times in the week.
- Aside from taking notes, collect artifacts that relate to the site (pamphlets, cards, menus, a piece of equipment you can borrow) and start trying to make connections with people. Soon you will have to interview someone, so make yourself known now.
- Write: Do Box 9 in response to the second chapter, "The Hot Spell," in a Thrice Told Tale, which you will have to have read.
- Do reading as indicated on syllabus.
- Meet with your book club for your first discussion (even if it is just over the first chapter). You can use the discussion boards under Groups on blackboard if you cannot meet in person.
Lydia
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