Decision 2008 AT SAC:
Turning in Your Video Analysis Papers

Activity #1: Copy Editing (20-25 min.)
Print a copy of your draft and exchange your essay with a peer. Go over your peer’s paper with a fine-toothed comb looking for any grammatical problems, chances to edit sentences for clarity and fluidity, and corrections you might offer in the use and documentation of quotations. When you are done, pass the paper back to the author.

Activity #2: Self-Editing, Final Changes (20-25 min.)
Make final changes to your essay based on the copyediting done by your peer and anything else you believe needed to be changed. Finish this copy as a PRINT copy (in MLA Format). Print this final draft and turn it in.

Activity #3: Turning In Your Essay to The Decision2008atSAC site (20-25 min.)

Follow the steps below. You will:
1) Create a NING account
2) Sign up for our particular Ning Site (Decision2008ATsac)
3) Set up your profile
4) Post your essay

1) Creating your Ning Account

a) Go to the Ning site: http://www.ning.com/

b) Click the "Sign In" tab on the upper right

c) Then "Get an Account"

d) Use your PALS email address AND your PALS password
--for example fsmith@mail.accd.edu
--PALS password is first two letters of last name capitalized and last
six digits of your ss#

2) Signing up for the Decision2008ATSAC site

a) Go to our Ning site: http://2008sac.ning.com/

b) Click the Sign Up link on the right side of the screen

c) Fill out the form

d) Then check your PALS email to see if you have been approved. Talk to me if you haven't. I will “accept” your request to join this site. Then you’re good to go.

3) Set up your profile

a) Once you have signed up and logged into the Decision2008ATSAC site (http://2008sac.ning.com/), click MY PAGE in the menu bar at the top.

b) Follow its suggestions for customizing your page as you wish.

c) Click “My Settings” on the upper right for another way to set your profile options.

4) Posting your essay

a) Click FORUM on the menu bar

b) Click on the Forum name “Political Videos Unmasked”

c) Click on the option “Start A Discussion”

d) Be sure to have the candidate name in the title.

e) Be sure you include the link to the video beneath the title

f) Paste in your paper (without the MLA format stuff like heading and such). Be sure to review the formatting to see if it looks ok. You can include graphics or links.

g) Be sure to also provide subject “tags”

Activity #4: Responding to Essays

Write a 150-200 word response to THREE forum posts of your peers. Watch the video. This is a rather open response, but I would like you to do two things:

1) Note the insights your find interesting in their paper

2) Engage in dialogue with them about their ideas and insights (most particular, perhaps, to issues raised in the uses and limits section.

3) Reply to responses you have received. Reply to replies of your posts. Dialogue. These replies can be shorter—25-75 words.

In all, I will look for you to do SIX posts (three responses, three replies). Up to SIX others can count as extra-credit.

Completing this response will be part of the homework before next class.