Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your introductions, it was great seeing everyone! If you haven’t already replied to two classmates, please do so this week. You can respond in Flipgrid with a video, or in the discussion board forum in writing. If you haven’t posted your own introduction video, please do so ASAP.

The readings for this week are linked in the schedule, and the week’s discussion board is up and linked in the schedule as well as here. This DB will require a bit of advance planning, so take a look at it today. Here is a short description. A full description is on the DB topic

• Track your media use over the course of one (12 or 24 hour) day. Write a reflection on the data you’ve gathered on yourself. Consider patterns, deviations, habits. 300-500 words.

If you didn’t already see the discussion board guidelines and rubric, you can find it under Assignments. Remember, each week you’re responsible for your own post, and two substantive responses to classmates.

On the administrative side, going forward, most class communications will be through the Commons–either annoucement posts like this one, or emails through our group. You can change the email address in your Commons account (instructions here) to the email you’re most likely to check regularly, even if that isn’t a CCNY or CUNY email.

A number of you indicated interest in weekly in-person video meetings. Those will start Monday Sept 14. I’ll send a Zoom link for those next week, along with what to prepare for the meeting.