COMM 228 Assignment for Wednesday:
On your group blog post the topic of your radio show along with an inventory of your recording/editing equipment. Does your laptop have a line-in port? Does your mp3 player have a record function? For those of you with digital video cameras, do you have a computer program that allows you to transfer the contents of your digital camera to your computer (just the audio in our case)?

COMM 101 Assignment for Wednesday:
Following the general procedure I outlined in class, use Social Judgment Theory to plot the issue space around your group's deliberative speech topic. Post the results on your group blog (counts as one blog post). Provide at least one link to a website that details SJT (there are several). Here are three tips for plotting points on your issue map:
1) Consider existing laws that might serve as points on that map. "Thomas" is a government resource with summary and full-text versions of federal legislation. Do a Word/Phrase search in the Bill Summary & Status section.
2) Google is also a good tool for searching out legislation relevant to your topic. Try the following search string: "name_of_your_topic federal legislation".
3) The legislation that your group ultimately invents will constitute a new point on the field that you have mapped out. Begin to think about where your legislator is positioned in terms of his or her beliefs. Then think about where, from a strategic perspective, you should reposition him or her.
The National Right to Life Committee lists all legislation relevant to its issue. Check out its website to see just how much legislation its members track. Think of each piece of legislation as a hash mark on a playing field (like the diagram I drew on the board).

COMM 228 Assignment for Wednesday:
Download the Adobe PDF version of Radio: An Illustrated Guide that I placed on my iDisk (under "stuff" in the side-column of my blog). For Wednesday, summarize the first seven pages of Radio in a post on your blog.