Introduction to SM 4250 - Sport & Gender Blog (1:00 Class)

By Dr. Spencer

Welcome to the Class Blog for the 11:30-12:45 TR class in SM 4250 (Sport & Gender). This blog will be the site where you can post blog entries and/or write comments in response to others' blog entries. Entries will be due on a weekly basis and should be submitted by no later than 11:30 Tuesday of each week. If you plan to do Blog entries for this class, your first entry should be an Introduction. If you plan to do Journal entries, you will need to submit each entry by no later than 11:30 Tuesday of each week. All comments should be submitted by no later than 11:30 Thursday of each week.

In the Introduction, you should elaborate on what you wrote on your Personal Information Form on the first day of class. More specifically, you could include the following information:

Your name and where you are from.

1. What sports did you play in H.S.? Do you still play competitively in college or intramural sport?
2. Who is the female athlete you would most like to see compete in her sport? Explain your response. If you would like to include a link to an article, photo, or Youtube clip, you can include that by using the toolbar available at the top of this page. (E.g., if I wanted to include a link to the Crip Walk Dance that Serena Williams did after she won the gold medal at the Olympics, I would highlight what I want to show and click on the link above so it would appear when you click on it:-)  
   
3. Who is the male athlete you would most like to see compete? Explain your response. Again, you can include a link to an article, photo, or Youtube clip.
4. Finally, do you have any concerns about taking this class in terms of the subjects we will be discussing and/or the workload? 

The Introduction will be worth a maximum of 10 points and will be graded on the basis of the following criteria:

• Content and clarity: have you clearly responded to the questions above? Did your sentences flow?
• Grammar: do verb tenses agree? Do subject and verb agree?
• Spelling: have you misspelled words (e.g., did you confuse the spellings of 'there' and 'their,' words that might not be caught by spell check)?
• Length: Each main entry (such as the Introduction) should be approximately 250 words (about a page when it is handwritten). It helps to write out your entry in a word document so you can check grammar and spelling as well as the word count for your entry.

Further details about the Introduction and other Blog and Journal entries will be posted under "Assignments" on Canvas. The link to this blog is available under "Pages."

Comments: After everyone has posted their Introductions on the Blog and submitted their Journal entries during the first week, you will have the option of doing Blog or Journal entries OR comments each week. We will go over the procedure for posting comments in class and I will provide guidelines in a separate entry on the blog. In order to post a comment in response to someone's main entry, you will need to login with your google account or gmail. If your name does not appear in the userid, you should include your name at the top of your entry. If you have any questions about posting or the requirements for the Blog or Journal entries, you may contact Dr. Spencer (nspencr@bgsu.edu), Casey Daulbaugh (caseyd@bgsu.edu), or Jeanette Pettigrew (jrpetti@bgsu.edu)