 Greetings and welcome. This video is a short course tour of the course popular culture in the U.S. I'm the instructor Lance Eaton and let's begin our tour. So this is the home page. This will be the landing page that you come into the course from. And all of these things that you see here on this page, it's largely just information, updates, things you need to know, say since the last time you came into the course, what might have changed. One of the big things really important to pay attention to is the announcements. And you can go directly and see all of the announcements under the left-hand side here where it says announcements. You really want to pay attention here because this is where you see everything that's going on in the course. And it really, you know, I give lots of announcements, updates, you know, things to consider, reminders, all those things. So it's really important for you to come into here and look at this so you know what's going on. So the next place you want to check out and actually look at pretty regularly is the calendar. What's really great about the Blackboard calendar is you can't really see it here because this is a mixture of other courses. But this really populates with all of the due dates that are part of assignments and things like that. So when you go into your calendar, you're going to see there's going to be a particular course that's identified as popular culture and it's going to show for each month what are the things that you need to do or when are things do and you can always click on those to get more information. So that's one really great piece. The other thing is that if you use, say, a calendar on your iPhone or if you have, if you use Google Calendar, you can actually take this link and sync it with your calendar of choice. So you can actually have these things pulled in. Meet your instructor, that's very pretty simple. That's just kind of getting a sense of who I am and what I'm about a little bit of background on me. So learning course information is where you can get a lot of the really important pieces of the course. So the orientation, the syllabus, the different guidelines, the expectations, it really is your go-to place for such information. The learning modules, this is of course where you're going to be accessing the different modules, the different topics of the course, the different readings, you go into any given module. The layout is pretty consistent. You have topics and objectives, a learning guide, your activities and assignments, the actual learning material for the week, and then the different assignments for the week. You can always get into the discussion by going right to the discussions and you'll see there's plenty of discussions already up there. Two I just want to draw your attention to is the open forum. This is a forum that's open to everybody if they want to just kind of chime in with your different thoughts about the course content. And then the questions and help form. Any time you need help or guidance or you're trying to get some kind of clarity, this is your place to go. The other cool thing is that you can post the question anonymously. So if you're afraid to be the person to ask that question because you think it's stupid. In truth, it's not stupid. If you're asking, it's plenty of other people are wondering it. So please use the forum. That's what it's there for. A really important place that students love to go back to regularly is my grades. And what you'll find in my grades is a listing of all the different assignments. And as they're graded, this will show, this will get populated. You'll see comments, feedback, all that stuff. There's an additional resources area. So if you want to go and just kind of see some interesting videos around popular culture, there's literally hours of material that you can enjoy there. So really great resources, too. So that's pretty much the course tour. Be sure to get in, look around, see what sense you can make of it, see if you have questions, and thank you very much. I will see you online.