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dirty laundry

2009-11-29T20:45:00.000-08:00

Ok another day we discuss MySpace and facebook today’s articles were facebook and divorce: airing dirty laundry; how safe is MySpace?; MySpace v. facebook competing addictions; MySpace launches a free music revolution; facebook exodus; facebooking your way out of tenure and how not to loose face on facebook, for professors. Really MySpace and facebook are not very good places to be putting stuff up that might affect you dirty laundry is not always good. Anyone can make a fake profile and pose as someone else just to get s peek of your private profile and use it against you. We all have to be more careful what we do online because you never know who might be watching some can actually loose their jobs over just a picture on facebook or MySpace. What we do out of work and school should not always be published for the world to see really I know I am more careful of what I put up because I never know who might be watching me I wouldn’t want one picture or comment or even a status update ruin something anything really. The articles gave us examples of real life experiences with such things. Honestly I don’t think anyone should go on what is seen on a web page but it does tell a lot about you so maybe we should just be more cautious but no one should invade someone else’s privacy either outside of what we do and what we do professionally is two different things. Yes we all like to have fun and yea sometimes we al do things we are not so proud of but that’s what we do outside the business world that doesn’t determine how we work or anything unless it affect your work then that’s another story. I think we are all free to do what we want on our free time just don’t publish it all because you wouldn’t want to regret it later when your out of a job over a dumb night and a dumb picture that was put up that night right? Always be professional don’t ever put up anything u know that might get you in trouble and come back and bite you in the butt. There are many cases that determine the appearance of MySpace and someone’s facebook on the outcome of things I know for sure I am going to be a lot more careful I never know who might be watching.

handheld learning conference 2008

2009-11-29T20:29:00.000-08:00

This must have been one of the most boringest that’s not a word but it was really boring video ever seen I really don’t know what it was about I was paying attention but ahh it just dragged really bad the last video was better it was funny and more entertaining but school assignments are not always fun right? Honestly I don’t even know what to write in this blogg I its suppose to be 400 words but that video really wasn’t interesting at all so I have nothing to say about it hmm ill think about it and edit later yes?

putting it together

2009-11-29T20:15:00.000-08:00

Putting together our compare and contrast essay wasn’t as easy as we thought they are so many differences and similarities that I didn’t know were to start in class we completed a work sheet to help us determine how to focus on the content of our essay. It helped yes but i am still confused i am not sure what I want to do it on comparing the two sites or contrast. Eventually I will figure it out it shouldn’t be too hard maybe when I go to the writing center they can give me a better understanding of what i am doing in my essay. Its hard to just focus on one of the two because I get caught up and start comparing and contrasting instead of sticking to one go keep going with it. The ideas where all there but it got harder when needed to be explained in some sort of detail that’s when I got my brain thinking and working. Going back and exploring the sites helped a lot actually taking thins hands on and doing the research. My team members did the same and took into consideration doing this hands on and going that extra mile and doing the necessary research.

myspace and facebook

2009-11-29T19:59:00.000-08:00

Computer lab it was today exploring MySpace and facebook I didn’t have to make either profiles because I already had them. For my future essay I had to use both networking sites more often to learn more about them both because I don’t use them as much as I use to and they both have changed in time. They both have a lot of similarities but also very different. I like both sites probably equally the same they both kind of bore me to tell you the truth is so last year it is not as fun as when I first go them. Yes it’s a good way to stay in touch and a good way to meet new people but now we all have cell phones we all text but honestly speaking for myself I communicate to people more over they two sites then I do texting. We all are too busy to text someone back or answer a phone call but for some reason we all have time to get on the two most popular networking sites MySpace and facebook. Amazing right, yes it is if we made a survey and asked everyone how they keep in touch the answer would not be by networking i am sure of it also we started writing our compare or contrast essay having to do with MySpace and facebook. You would think it would be the easiest assignment ever just because we all use the sites on an everyday basis but nope it wasn’t as easy as we all thought its hard because you may think u know everything but we don’t there’s always new things we having encountered on the sites. They are both time consuming that’s for sure we all get caught up on them they are both a huge distraction they are addiction almost. When doing hw and sitting and typing who doesn’t get the urge to take a “break” and visit the two most popular networking sites in the world 15 minutes ends up to being an hour trust me I know. It’s addicting what can I say. We all do it don’t deny it some do it all day while others can just settle with checking it once a week. Now that there is apps for MySpace and facebook I can check it anywhere anytime with a touch of a button that’s bad see addicted that’s kind of embarrassing isn’t it?

body image

2009-11-29T19:58:00.000-08:00

Killing us softly 3; dove evolution; and dove onslaught and articles Brazilian obesity: the big girl form panama and health and fitness: snip, suction, stretch and truss were today’s articles and videos they were all basically about the body image and what it should look like and how the media shows it. We all different in may ways and forms everyone is beautiful in there own way but the media makes us think of what we should look like in some of the videos they enhanced the pictures after they were taken. Why would u enchase a picture that was meant to show the work natural beauty? Girls are already paranoid about they’re looks it doesn’t make us feel better when the pictures on the magazines are enhanced to look ten times better and we wanting to look like them when in reality they don’t even look like that. I know I wouldn’t want my picture enhanced because I am who I am why change it. These articles and videos made me think and now when I look into magazines and bill boards instead of saying omg I want her stomach or omg I want her eyebrows or something dumb like that I now just realized they are photoshoped and they are not as perfect as they look like. Every ones flaws make them who they are if we were all perfect then where would our uniqueness go? Yes there is many ways to change your image on the outside of course, like cosmetic surgery to enhance this stretch this tuck this and nip that. A lot of men and woman to that because of what they want to look like and they want the perfect body it wouldn’t be that way if there wasn’t so maybe face pictures around making the audience double think they’re features and changing how they look. It really discussed me actually that they would go back and change the picture onto what they think is perfect it was fine to start with why mess with it. Just be happy with yourself love yourself and be confident on your looks its better to be natural then be fake. Who would want someone fake I know I wouldn’t. Beauty comes from the inside love yourself and others will too. Eat healthy exercise do it right don’t use the last resort and go fake keep it up and you will be fine!

thesis!

2009-11-29T19:39:00.000-08:00

Creating a thesis and a draft plan for my essay wasn’t as easy as I thought they are so many things to think about so many options to pick from to write about. Writing all my ideas down and picking them out and thinking of what I wanted my essay to be took some time. Using different methods to keep my ideas together to see which one fit me best and what was easier for me to use. As I gathered my thoughts together in my head before I wrote them down. Lets see MySpace and facebook they both have comments they also have uploading pictures and videos status updates, apps, instant messenger friends you might know feature and other interesting stuff but they both work differently they both have the same features but work differently something’s are better on facebook and some are better on MySpace it is hard to choose which one I liked the best because I am kind of bored of both its all the same to me. Figuring out the little differences was sort of hard because in a weird way it is the same application but it is used differently weird right? Took me a while to figure them out too.

myspace and facebook

2009-11-29T19:22:00.000-08:00

Articles of today were colleges scan facebook during admissions; jury out on facebook's impact on grades; facebook sparks suspicion; and does facebook replace face time or enhance it? All these articles were basically about facebook and MySpace how it impacts everyday life. Now in days we all have these networking sites and its a must have to have one of more of these pages to keep in touch or to meet new people. But by doing so we get less interaction with humans we do most of the communication online. Some colleges look the students up and that determines if they are in or not if they are good enough to attend that college that’s not fair that an invasion of privacy I think at least. What the students do outside of campus shouldn’t determine how they will do or determine that they are not good enough to attend same thing with the grades yeah it takes out time up yes it is a big distraction heck I have it on my tap right now but it all determines on the person and how dedicated they are to school we are all allowed to have a good time everyone in a while right? Yes we all post inappropriate pictures online about our fun weekend but who doesn’t or who has not done something they are not proud of or something we all have one in one point in time. Ask for the less face time we get by interacting on online sites such as facebook and MySpace it is an easier way to meet new people. Jut by leaving a “hi “ comment breaks the ice who needs to be all shy and timid when meeting someone new when u can break the ice online but in the other hand it also can be a bad thing some people abuse the privates and make fake profiles sometimes I wonder about the unknown people that add me some can be crazy psycho killers or something. Some have actually can become good friends. Meeting new people is always a good thing knowing people around the world is bad ass!! We all just have to be more careful of what we post because we never know who might see it don’t post anything up you would not let you mother see because your page reflects on you and only you. Be safe and play safe keep networking people.

pandora&Lastfm

2009-10-16T04:53:00.000-07:00

Today we learned about Pandora and LastFm they are Internet radios I knew about Pandora but wasn’t aware of LastFM I downloaded both on my iphone. I liked them both a lot they are both similar. They both play the music you want to listen to and there is an option for song that you don’t like and won’t play again on that station. Its pretty cool I can say i am a big fan now I don’t even use my iPod I use Pandora or last fm instead its more chooses and easier way to find new artist of similar music your interested in. it’s a easy way to explore new artist. Music to me is a part of life music tells a story that we can relate to sooner or later it mends hearts all over the world and make us feel better when we are down. Pandora and last fm are similar because they both play good music last fm plays a little slide show as the music plays Pandora just has a regular player for theirs. Last fm takes a bit longer to load than Pandora des that’s not cool Pandora loads real quick with rarely any commercials unlike last fm it had video commercials, which frankly I didn’t like. But both are good sites it has their ups and downs but what sites don’t nothing is perfect but if I had to chose o would go with Pandora I use it mostly everyday now I use last fm also but just not as often as I do Pandora. I think everyone is class liked it to and have became big fans of both sites i am sure some liked last fm more than they did Pandora and some liked Pandora more than last fm but no two people are alike and not everyone likes the same music. They both offer different thinks last fm plays the same music every time starts with the same song every time and Pandora doesn’t it mixes it up a bit its shuffles I guess I liked that about it though. I will continue to use these websites its better than paying for satellite radio this way u can only play what u like.

writing center expierince

2009-10-16T04:35:00.002-07:00

My writing center expirience helped me put together my essay it helps me get more structure that I was lacking and more order in my essay because it was everywhere. At first she read my essay out loud and asked me about the video and I explained and she wrote what each paragraph should have. She also helped me think of ways to start and end my essay I was lacking my first paragraph and my concluding paragraph. The session wasn’t very long it was very helpful yes it is something we al think is useless time to go but in the end it something that helps us improve out assignment. Every essay is different and we get different feed back in all of them I wouldn’t change a thing in a appointment because it was what I expected and what it should have been I really don’t have any complaints except being so dam booked all the time but besides that it’s a great addition that the school offers. We all have potential to make our papers great and they help us get there. I also liked that they go through the whole essay and give us ideas on how to improve it and make it sound better. Every time I have gotten a different tutor they all have something different and different learning stiles on how to teach us on better essay skills. But in the end they all get the job done and we all are satisfied walking out of the writing center and turning in a better paper than we would of have if we would of not gone. It has helped me improve and learn new ways of writing and being able to describe without sounding or getting boring. Making an essay short but sweet making it get to the point without dragging it way to much I know I will be going back that way I learn more as I go and eventually I wont need to go but until then I will see a tutor for more essays to come for my collage English classes.

commenting on others blogs

2009-10-16T04:35:00.001-07:00

Today we read and commented on two of your classmate’s blogs. I personally because i am kind of insecure about my writing. I’m sure my other classmates probably felt the same I wasn’t expecting anyone but the teacher to read my blogs. I was a bit nervous about reading my comments just because I was a bit blunt in the comments I left. We all have different writing styles that for sure. They were so many blogs to chose from it was hard to chose one I think we all stuck to commenting in our groups blogs or something or someone more familiar wouldn’t want to offend anyone right? But criticism helps improve our writing because if everyone would to say its great when it really isn’t that won’t let us improve in our writing by not knowing what we do wrong. This exercise helped a lot of the students better they’re writing criticsing a friend is hard but it got done and it turned out to be ok and we all befitted from it. I chose the fake email to a friend to comment on, on both of different classmates blogs because it was one of the first blogs we all wrote as time goes by we all improved I think.

timeline

2009-10-16T04:34:00.000-07:00

Today we got into groups and did a timeline of our chosen vblogs for out essay. In some way it was a lot of help because it’s a way of brainstorming and writing down the most important part we remembered of the vblog. It helped me by hearing others of my group member’s timelines because some of them put more detain into their timeline and showed me that some details should be added to the timeline the smallest detail helps a lot. The whole class period we discussed the vblog we all chose no one had the same one everyone’s was different so it was interesting hearing the different stories the vblogs told. These sort of exercises helps everyone in different ways we all benefit from them and learn new ways to beat that writer’s block we all get sometimes. Its good to know different ways just because some are easier than other sometimes ideas or important small parts get forgotten and remember when looking back into your brainstorm forms. It’s a good way to start off before starting a rough draft. It sure made my writing experience a whole lot easier it is easy to write just anything but when witting a very detailed description of a video it gets hard. This exercise made it alot easier for everyone well at least it helped me a lot

robotikmusic

2009-10-16T04:33:00.000-07:00

As he waives and introduces himself as robotnick. Alone in his room with a pair of ray ban sunglasses, He’s a guy what looks like mid 20”s curly longish hair with a five o’clock shadow and what seems to be a British accent. Little nervous as he eats his tomato soup but it sizzling hot he eats it very carefully. As he takes a bite of bread and wipes his mouth carefully with the palm of his hand as he talks about his second upcoming album as he shows his first album “pleasant square” and turns into talking about his plans for the day. Those plans are involving grocery shopping and a gig he has that night. As he takes another bite of bread he closes off noting his head up and down as he repeats buh bye buh bye numerous times and lastly takes one last bite. Closes off. Basically this video was just an attempt to sell his music who does that is he that desperate. I guess he is using every social website to advertize him self through the video he takes the camera with him everywhere for that day everything he did had to do with music yes he seemed like a cool guy but when he was opening and closing his video in the end he was wearing sun glasses maybe he wanted to look cooler or maybe he was a bit insecure of himself talking into a camera in a empty room. I choose robotnik vblog because it was a lot more interesting than the other videos I had encountered and who doesn’t like music selling it or not everyone enjoys a good tune. Maybe it could of been a bit more interesting and talking about more about himself but music is probably his life and one of his loves. Maybe you tube can help him make it someday why not soulja boi tell em’ did it why can he right? If your willing to put yourself out there like that more credit to you because not everyone has the guts to do that either your to embarrassed or care way to o much of what others think and sometimes you got to do what you got to do to make it.

link-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPvoxKAbULQ

anthropological intro to youtube.

2009-10-16T04:30:00.000-07:00

An anthropological introduction to You Tube by Mike Welsch was interesting a long video. A lot of things about you tube I was aware of. You tube brings a lot of people together I was aware it was that popular and how it affect others and changes peoples lives sometimes. It’s practically a lifestyle for some, its real reality TV. A lot of people make vblog that talk about they’re day to day life a lot of people fallow them and can relate to them. Some people have became famous over you tube like soulja boi tell em’ for example his music video and dance because a craze that everyone started making videos doing the dance all around the world he eventually because a platinum selling rap artist. Other videos get really popular and he talks about some of them a lot of them were funny and I wasn’t even aware of. You tube is more interesting to me than ever there is everything on you tube different kinds of people come to gather and make videos of them selves they put themselves out there for everyone to see they talk into a small camera not caring who sees them they just let their feeling outs and say what they have to say I don’t know if I would be able to put myself out there like that. You tube has more view than actual TV a day its crazy how that is even possible. Why not only is you tube a new way in communicating but it’s a good way to learn new things you tube has tutorials on anything you can think of its amazing really. How one video can get so popular so easily i am sure the one that makes the video doesn’t expect that or has intentions of even trying to be a you tube super star. The cool think about you tube is that it is so real nothing is censored and its semi appropriate I don’t think I have ran into an um appropriate video on there but i am sure they is. You tube isn’t just an Internet sensation it’s also a lifestyle and a video journal were you could rant about anything anytime for the world to see.

iphones and texting

2009-09-27T22:18:00.001-07:00

Txting the gr8 db8 was a big debate about how texting is taking over the English language . I personally don’t find anything wrong with it. I think abbreviation helps us with out note taking skills. In a way it might affect some just because while writing a paper unconsciously use abbreviations I do that sometimes but I catch myself. Texting is not a bad thing it challenges the mind I think I don’t see anything wrong with it others might think its just making us dumber than smatter but like I said it challenges the mind why not use it its technology we use everyday. We text everyday, all the time, If anything we write everyday yes, it is not a blog or an essay but its some sort of writing. Any sort of writing helps. I phone the new craze of our generation everyone had one or wants to own one heck I own one. Its very useful and comes in handy some school s are considering using iphone apps to make class assignments easier to get a hold of. I personally think it’s a great gadget. I use it to check my email accounts, or any social network I use. It has gps and other helpful apps that help me in everyday life. There is even apps to translate other languages technology has came along way in the palm of your hand you have a hand help computer its cheaper than buying a laptop that’s for sure. I have Internet where ever I needed or go. If I need fast information now I just pull out my phone and search I don’t have to wait and get home to do it when I need it right now not later. All these technology articles we al relate to them because we use technology in everyday life.

email to a friend & email etiquette

2009-09-27T21:34:00.000-07:00

The difference between the email to a friend and the email etiquette essay was easier writing and ranting to a friend about a bad grade I got versus writing for a reconsideration grade change to a professor. In the email etiquette essay was a bit harder because I had to be more careful with what I said, I had to come up with a legit reason to. The blog all I did was write and write like I would a friend it wasn’t hard. Writing a teacher was way different it wasn’t harder but it consisted of thinking a big more. The email etiquette essay had guidelines we had to follow the blog didn’t. The blog I wrote it as if I was writing my own friend yes, it was hard to start the blog at first because I didn’t want to be too blunt and I didn’t want to drop the f bomb every couple of sentences because I have a potty mouth that’s for sure. The guidelines in the email etiquette were specific Ms Crawford knew what she wanted from us and what she was expecting. In a way we had it easy because we had guidelines to follow instead free writing and not knowing exactly how to get a good grade. Even though at first I didn’t follow it because instead of looking at the guidelines I just wrote and instead of following what I was given. For this essay I was required to go the writing center, for the blog I wasn’t required to it was more of free style writing. I personally liked the essay better because I had guidelines that in some way made it easier to write. Most people probably think the blog was easier because it was shorted and writing to a friend well we a just ranted who cant rant a whine about something we all can do that without thinking we all do it all the time at least once a day. The essay was more of a chanllange to me.

thesis and draft plan.

2009-09-27T20:59:00.000-07:00

I think the email etiquette essay is not going to be a hard assignment. Its basically al you need is a big imagination. But the hard thing is coming up with a legit reason why you got the grade u got and why it should be reconsidered. Anyone can come up with a lie but to make it a great paper its better of having a real good reason maybe something you can relate to. At first I thought oh this is easy what a breeze but I was wrong I had so many ideas I couldn’t find the right words to start my draft plan. I have a big imagination but I can’t just say anything that was the hard part coming up with a real reason. Anyone can come up with a bullshit idea that isn’t believable and having an excuse like that there’s always a way you could of done better or turned it in on time. I wrote all my ideas down brained stormed and wrote anything and everything that came into my mind about what I wanted m essay to be and say. I read the guidelines carefully to make sure I didn’t miss anything. As careful as I was I still missed something’s at first I wrote and wrote but instead of writing and having a why and a reason all I was doing was being emotional and why I should get my grade changed because of my past assignments and I didn’t deserve the grade I got but what makes me special anyone can say that and give that excuse I was stuck on what to write for quite sometime. It went well discussing it with a team member because we all were feeding off each other we all had different ideas, which help all of us, come up with better ideas for our essay.

workshop

2009-09-21T20:40:00.000-07:00

Today’s workshop helped me better my email essay. My team members gave me the feedback I needed to make my paper better. We read each others out loud and gave our opinion on how to make there’s better I think we all benefitted from it because we all didn’t have a perfect paper we all were sort of lost in the assignment. I learned I needed more detail and a better excuse for a grade change. We also got feed back from Ms. Crawford and took what she said into consideration. As long as learning new concepts to write a better paper I got new ideas on how to make my paper longer and how to explain myself better so my reader can understand what I want and why. This workshop took longer than expected it took all class period our papers needed more explanations and why’s. We all gave a bunch of excuses and no real reason why we needed a class change and we all discussed it and we go to the point. I hope we do this workshop more often so we can learn and see our mistakes because we might think our paper sounds great to us but others might have another option and its good to get criticism. The ones in the group that had already had gone to the writing center had a better idea of what they were writing and gave me the best feedback because they were honest and knew somewhat what they were doing. I went to the writing center later that afternoon and got lot of help and used the feedback I got in the workshop that morning and used all the ideas and gave an idea for the tutor where I was with my paper and what I wanted to express all I needed to get a good paper.

online dating

2009-09-20T17:23:00.001-07:00

Internet dation2.0 by Verna Gates was a interesting article because I’m sure there has been a lot of these occasions happen before online dating is very risky because you never know who is on the other end that other person can be married of be lying about everything they say online dating takes away of getting to know someone in person and in a personal lever. I know that even though someone can always lie in person also I think its more of a sure deal in person instead of getting to know someone only. A lot of the dating sites have intese questions before making profiles but still isn’t a sure thing because anyone can lie there’s a lot of pretenders and weird people out there online dating is n easier was to meet and get to know someone but its also dangerous and you can never know what to expect. Is E-harmony biased Against gays by John Cloud, e-harmony doesn’t give gays and option to seek a partner its biased more towards the straight people. It’s more for matching married couples. The lawsuit was dumb because there is many other websites that offer online dating for the gays. It would be different if that service was offered by some other website. E harmony is a match making website for more serious relationships matching for marriage. It’s not against gays or anything maybe they should have a choice for them because the service isn’t free. Legally gays can’t marry and that what e-harmony is about marriage not just a one-night stand or anything like that. These articles we discussed this week were interesting I think we all had something to say no one was lost or not interested. Online dating its what a lot of people do these days there’s a lot of networking websites we all use like myspace and face book for example we all have met someone online and probably met them and they weren’t what we thought they would be dating online takes away for the traditional ways but if your lucky love might find you virtually instead of personally.

schools&iphones

2009-09-13T19:38:00.000-07:00

The two articles that interested me where Al gore should schools are wired to the Internet and new ipod rules touch off debate. Al gores articles was about bringing technology to schools saying that the students that have access to a cumputer and internet do better and complete assignments. I think it’s a good thing to do more work with technology it offers more to research do assignments better. Also every child should be able to turn in something half done and not done to its potential because of lack of tools. Classrooms should work more with technology and the Internet to teach because there are a lot of possibilities to learn just about everything online. It’s a better way of learning for everyone. The article new ipod rues touch off debate was about having ipods and iphones in the classroom. I think it’s a good idea in the palm of your hand you can have class lectures; search the web and other useful for the student. They can use the devices to listen to a lecture in the gym on your way to work or while your jogging. There is a lot of ways that the devices make it easier for students. It’s very convenient and it’s cheaper than buying a laptop when u can have a hand held computer. Its useful for anytime they are universities that have started bringing the devices in the classroom. They use the devices to teach. They have made apps to make things easier for the school as well as the students some don’t agree with bringing these devises to the classroom because they think it might be a distraction but if they are limitations how some universities that are testing having the devices are doing it isn’t a problem it can actually make learning easier and more interesting. Technology has no limits we can all use technology to learn new things everyday and make school fun.

txtng&iphoning

2009-09-09T05:55:00.000-07:00

Txtng the gr8 db8 by Marcus Berkman was basically about the pros and cons about texting. A lot of people are against it but some are for it also I think it challenges the mind. Some think that in our generation some cant read or write proper sentences but are developing repetitive strain injury in their thumbs. Others think its challenges literary skills. Texing is a new kind of communication really. Texting isn’t inventing a new language but adapting and old one. Abbreviations have been around for years its part of the European ludic linguistic tradition. Reading, writing, iphoning by Elizabeth Woyky was about how an iphone is being used more and more in schools. Some universities are giving them away. The schools say the devices will pep up class discussions and give students quick access to important information like local maps and academic calendars .Its not totally free there’s a fee they have to pay to at&t and students who leave school before the end of term have to pay a pro rated fee for the devices. They schools are planning to use the Iphones and touches to take attendance the students will be able to check out there syllabi and course calendars receive alerts. Some teaches may do pod cast ad use instant messaging for online classes. They believe if everyone in a classroom has one or the other it can change they way the lecture comes to us. There are a lot of uses these schools have thought of to make collage life easier. Such as finding the nearest restroom or a panic button if in need of assistance. They will be used for automatic attendance taking by using gps app. I think it’s a great idea if used wisely it can cause a distraction but it may have a lot of helpful uses to having an iphone or itouch incorporated with school.

september 4 2009

2009-09-04T06:41:00.000-07:00

Today in class we discussed the grade scale, future work assignments how points add up, how extra credit is earned and what exactly we are going to cover. In order to get an A in the class 900 points must be earned 10045 is the total of points that can be earned. We also discussed percentages 14 percent of our grade has to do with classroom writing there are 14 total.There is also a discussion grade that's 15 percent and I'm going to have to be able to talk about my writing in order to be a better writer. May i add 3 of the 18 discussion grades work count for or against me so that's a plus.then there is 6 percent for group presentations,35 percent on final drafts,our blogs are 10 percent and our final is 20 percent seems easy enough something i can handle without pulling my hair out. There is rules concerning mainly group presentations all have to be present and in there seat on time to be able to win a challenge. All the rules seems reasonable There team challenges that are going to help me better my skills and do better in class and in my future career.There is final immunity which will give us 50 extra points we can earn for the team challenges that wins most challenges. Most of our future assignments seem interesting probably not what I expected.The topics that were going to write about we all can relate we all use technology and that's the base of what were going to be writing about.Probably the best thing are group presentations just because it easier everyone help each other out makes class funner and more interesting.We can get kicked out of the team and if we want to be back o the team e have to plea the group back and it there decision if they want them back or not. I'm looking forward to for whats to come.

Hello

2009-09-02T21:22:00.000-07:00

Hey Kelsi, so i decided to write you an e-mail because i just needed to talk to someone and your at work and I'm off. I really need to let it out I'm going to rant all about it via email and later you can hear about it too. Anyways today in my English class i got a C grade on my a paper the one i showed you the other day. I researched and re wrote it a billion and one times to get it perfect i don't think it was a fair grade. I should of got a B at least the teacher must of not read it right or something because i think it was a really good paper and so did u.I don't see where i went wrong this is bullshit! I think next class I'm going to talk to her and ask for an explanation of why i got the grade that i got. I think I'm a pretty good at writing i haven't got a bad grade in my other papers C is not bad but its not worth a C its worth more i don't think it got the grade that it deserved i was up all night researching for it reading all the that i could find i had at least five different drafts i really don't know where i went wrong. The teacher probably didn't finish reading it and gave me a C thinking its not a bad grade or a good grade I'm really trying to do really good this semester and shes bringing me down i thought i had it and i did really well and got shot down all i can think of doing is asking her what was wrong with it. I really don't understand I'm confused about it all. Well ill talk to you later I'm done typing its hurting my fingers. bye.

my writting process!

2009-08-31T06:30:00.000-07:00

My writting process is simple i first take a nap because i think i need to be well rested even though i probably wont be tired.When i wake up from my nap im normally hungry so it takes me quite a while to deside what i want to eat im very picky when it comes to what i eat. After i deside and eat i sit around for a while until i dont feel as full.Then i start checking my myspace account,facebook,email accounts and amung other accounts. After all that i will probably get thirsty and go to sonic to a buy a drink. finally i get back home and start on my paper but i still wont strat because i will get stuck on what to write so i sit around looking around and thinking of what i want to write gather my thoughts.Eventually my phone will ring or resive a text and there i go answering or texting back.After all that i get down to business get all the nessesary supplies i need to start look over the matirial that is given to me. I re-read to refresh my memory and know what im writing about instead of guessing . I start off by writing it down instead of typing it first yes its double the work but i work better that way. I write a couple of drafts first re-read them take something from every paper i write and type the best one. I may procrastinate but who doesn't. When it comes to it i get the job done right and on time.

how to use technology in the world

2009-08-28T06:31:00.000-07:00

Technology is a big part of the world, Its something we use everyday to make life easier.As for myself my iphone is something that helps me out alot if its for directions to take me where i have to go or keep in touch with love ones or friends it has alot of uses no need for a computer when i have it basictly at the palm of my hand. Another thing that i use everyday that i consider technology is a veichle because i see technology as something that makes life easier and that's what a veichle does. A veichle takes us from one place to another in a quicker time span .A usb drive is something else that makes it way easier just because you can carry all sorts of information,photos,music and so on in one little drive. Technology is all around us in different shapes and forms.