Assignment
Instructions:
1) Log on to pbs which is the website for PBS Frontline. You will need JAVA and/or Flash Player in order to stream the video from your computer.
2) If the above link is broken then google PBS Frontline Archives. Click on the link and there you will find the list of videos available to view. Type in the title of the video in the search box or scroll through the videos to find it.
3) Select and view the video listed below.
4) Answer the questions found in the template below. You must type the questions and answers in the forum. Please note I will not accept any analyses that are submitted as attachments. Make sure you post your response in the forum.
5) Remember you are required to read and provide brief critical reactions to at least one of your classmate's analysis.
6) Once you post your analysis in the forum and respond to your classmate(s), you are done with this assignment.
Title - Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA
Template for Analyzing the Video
1) State as accurately as possible the video's purpose for presenting this information. Explain your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
2) What is the video attempting to convey and from what perspective is it presenting the information? Provide your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
3) What key question can you develop from the content presented in the article? Provide your question and then your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
4) What are the most important ideas you would have to understand in order to understand the video's line of reasoning? Provide your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
5) What is the video failing to address (what might be questioned)? Provide your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
6) What consequences are likely to follow if people take the video's line of reasoning seriously? Provide your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
7) What consequences are likely to follow if people ignore the video's reasoning? Provide your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
8) Identify the key conclusions the video comes to and presents? Provide your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
9) What facts, experiences, or data is the video using to support its conclusions? Provide your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
The questions below are to be used as the framework for responding to at least one of your classmate's posting. That is, select a posting you wish to respond to then evaluate the work and answer the following questions. Be sure to address the questions to your classmate and make it relevant to his/her work. You are required to provide a minimum of five sentences for each question (#1 - #8) posted below and to respond to at least to one of your classmates. Let's have some fun with this while providing critical and relevant policy discussions and remember to respect all viewpoints.
1) What is your classmate presenting as his/her main idea/purpose? Explain your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
2) What question is your classmate attempting to answer? Provide at least 4 alternate questions for the author.
3) What information does your classmate provide as a basis for arriving at his/her own conclusion? Explain your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
4) What are the main conclusions or inferences made by your classmate? Explain your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
5) What are the main ideas that guide your classmate's thinking? Explain your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
6) What does your classmate take for granted? Explain your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
7) What is your classmate's perspective and how is s/he seeing it? Explain your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.
8) If your classmate is correct (or insightful), what are some implications we should recognize? Explain your analysis/answer in five or more sentences.