February 24, 2015
      This was the 5th week of my online class. The first assignment for this week was to watch the instructor lecture on telecommunication regulation. After I watched the lecture I wrote my forum response for the week. The forum topic for this week was Media Ownership and we had to write about the impact of the Telecommunication Act of 1996 on media ownership regulations. I had a hard time doing this assignment because I did not completely understand what this act did. I also struggled with finding research and sources for this assignment.  Overall this was a tough week for me but I plan on getting back on track this week. My goal for this week is to turn my assignments in on time and in the correct place. I also need to give better responses to the other students' posts.

Time: 2 Hours
Time Logged: 11 Hours

Week 4

February 18, 2015
   This was the fourth week of my online class. The topic for this week was freedom of expression. The first assignment was to watch the instructor video about freedom of speech. The second assignment was to read chapter 2 from the textbook. There are not any written assignments that go with the reading, but the final and midterm questions will come from the textbook. The forum topic for this week was freedom of expression in school. We had to write about the limitatons to the freedom of expression in schools,  court rulings related to this and CSM's policy on time and manner. We also had to reply to three other students' posts. Some of the other students disagreed with my opinion about limitations on freedom of expression in school. I believe that the age difference between me and the some of the other students may have played a role in this disagreement. I like that people disagreed with my opinion because it made the forum more interesting. I found this week's assignment very interesting because it relates to my life as a student. My goal for this next week is to catch up on the reading from the textbook because I have fallen behind.

Time: 3 hours
Time Logged: 9 Hours

Week 3

February 9, 2015
   This week was the third week of my online class. I started my week off by watching a lecture about an overview of the legal system. This weeks assignment was to write a short essay about our opinion of the judicial system and if we think that the Supreme Court has too much power. We also had to reply to 3 people about our opinion of their essay. I liked this assignment because I got to talk about my opinion and I enjoyed reading my classmates' opinions. I also found my research very interesting and I learned surprising information about the judicial system. This week I also read and outlined chapter one from the textbook which was an introduction to the legal system.


Time: 3 Hours
Time Logged: 6 Hours

Week 2

February  4, 2015
         This week was the second week of my online class. The assignment for this week was to watch videos from the CSM library about Information Competency. These videos talked about how to cite information and how to use the library databases to find information.These videos were very relevant to the research I have been doing for my essay. The second part of the assignment was to take a quiz on the videos. The goal of this quiz was to see how much we learned from the videos. Overall I am enjoying the challenge that this class presents for me but I am still having a hard time figuring out how to use the website. I hope that I will get the hang of it soon. I also need to keep up with due dates and assignments. Next week we will begin using the textbook and I am nervous about starting the actual curriculum.

Time: 1 Hour
Time Logged: 3 Hours