Whale of a time

This week there was no lecture, and thus we only had the tutorial. Max went around and discussed the topics that everyone had chosen for their assignments. My idea was still very much in the working stage, as I had basically just thought of my idea.
Long story short, I was on facebook, and someone had posted a video of whaling. On the facbook homepage all it had was the picture of a whale’s tail coming out of the water. This gave me the idea to explore the topic of whaling, as currently it is a very controversial topic, and over the past year has been documented in the news often. However I did not know that this particular whale video was in fact a snippet from a comedy show known as ’Onion News.’ The video wasn’t at all denouncing whales, but was using the topic of whales to bring fault to the relevance of the American’s discussions of education.
After having chosen my idea, Max gave me some thoughts on how to present it, and which blog I should use. Everyone apart from the three of us in the corner left the tutorial within an hour but we stayed longer to work on our assignments. I decided to use wordpress to present my topic on, and began to research whaling in general to get a good feel of the issue.