Today's Meeting

Hey all.... we met today at 2:00 in the Cyber Cafe and I am going to write down what we came up with so we can get going on all of these things! I will post our ideas so we can then expand on them and come prepared when we meet on wednesday at 10:30 P.M. in LeMans, Reignbeaux Lounge.

****We are also going to meet this Thursday After Class

1. I am going to familiarize myself with Second Life and we will show how this works, we were thinking that we would start out our presentation by showing an interaction between avatar's...

in order for the avatar to do anything, the user has to move them so we might think of something creative i can have my avatar do to show them (i have been playing around with it... pretty freaky, can go to Rome...anywhere really, even like sex shops hahaha) So in a way this is a tool for teens to explore sexual issues without even leaving their homes, kind of weird?

2. Katrina's Video

3. Magazine Learning Activity- for this activity we are going to have a variety of magazines and give 3-4 magazines to each group A-D and have them find articles or ads that they can apply to the activity.

4. Then we are going to show the Chris Rock video about Rap Music from (2:30-3:55) which will lead into a discussion of other songs with lyrics that anyone can come up with

-Alaine and Rebecca are going to put together a sheet with phrases from some songs that have lyrics we can analyze as a class that Lily can print out for us

-Then we will show the "Two White Girls Dance to Raunchy Rap Music After School" video from Youtube

-Next we will discuss/connect the If Women Ran Hip-Hop article to what was just done above

5. In the motherhood promo

BOOK READING:

-1. Creating Cutlure: we will make connections in our presentation to TV (in the mother hood, desperate housewives), Movies (Mean Girls, House Bunny, Legally Blonde), Music/Music Videos(Chris Rock about Rap Music, lyric analyzation), Print Media (magazine exercise), Literature and Arts (Gossip Girl Books),

2. (Tweens) Colliding Feminisms article

-young tweens want to be just like Britney Spears, or do they?

-we are going to act out several of the dialogues from the article which I will assign to you all sometime soon probably tomorrow...

3. Desperately Debating Housewives - Desperate Housewives, In the Motherhood

4. If Women Ran Hip Hop- see above

5. Pop Culture Gone Wild