While I have not had time to post this week I have been keeping up with some of the my favorite blogs. Anya posted this Dove commerical – its message is so important that I am also posting it here. There are many unrealistic portrayals of women and roles that women should hold in society in addition to the way they should look. These all contribute to many of the issues that we see with young women such as eating disorders and their motivation to do well in school (not wanting to seem too smart in front of boys).
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Its been an extremely hectic week as the Slatenight team helped to wrap up NMC’s Symposium which was held in Second Life. Heidi and I really pushing ourselves to get everything that we need to get done and what we would like to get done. We were working on our presentation, Engaging the Disengaged, right up to the last minute, uploading GIFs into SL, fighting with the slide presenter and then finally using the one provided by AngryBeth Shortbread (THANK YOU Angrybeth!!!). All the of the audio is available on the NMC Campus Observer – I listened to the Fashioning the Avatar presentation and then decided I could not stand my voice for another minute LOL.