Last Current Events Entry of the Decade!

In order for you to know more about the Writer's Guild of America strike, I am posting a link to the wikipedia page relating to the strike. While I found 4 articles to post about the strike, I found that the wikipedia article had more useful information that the article.

You DO NOT need to read the entire article-- it is long. Instead of reading the entire thing, please read the following Sections:

1. Issues in the strike

4. Effect on television

5. Response

Please post a 2 paragraph response illustrating demonstrating knowledge obtained from the reading. Because there will not be a quiz, this blog post is worth 25 points.

Here is an interesting video from the writing staff of the office during the strike.

Mass Media: The Triumphant Return of Current Events 12/13/2009

Ahh...it has been too long since we have done a current events blog post. In order to receive full credit, you must post to the blog by the start of class on Tuesday (12/15) . There will be a quiz on Tuesday and you can use a 3x5 notecard with 20 words on it.

Invictus is getting a lot of press-- I hope to see it sometime this week.

I am not sure about Avatar. I just hope the story is as good as the special effects look.

E-Readers are all the rage this holiday season. Are they worth it?

Project Schedule

Once again I have left the schedule of who is to present next at school. I meant to post it to the blog on Friday, but that did not happen.

Please refer to the schedule that I handed out before Thanksgiving break. Paul was the last person to go, so the next three people are scheduled for Monday (in addition to Mike).

Sorry to not have the specific information-- I will try to post it first thing Monday morning.