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What comes to mind when you hear the word Internet? Could it be for information, myspace, facebook, emails? There are countless things that could come to mind with that one word. Now what comes to mind when you hear the word dating? For some it could mean love, romance, heartache, etc. Now put the two together and see what comes to mind when you hear the words "Internet dating"?
In this new day of age, it is safe to make the assumption that technology is the future. But is technology also the future for our love lives as well? It is understood that we use technology in everyday life, such as to go to work or school, and even when we work and attend school. Who's to say that we shouldn't use it towards our love lives? This new form of meeting people over the Internet and trying to find your significant other is something that is becoming more and more popular over the last ten, fifteen years and i do not see it slowing down anytime in the near future. In fact there are beginning to have more and more company's such as Eharmony and Match.com that are websites that help you find that one special person you are looking for. It is a little crazy to think that back in the day, before the Internet became popular, that people where communicating relationship wise in a complete different way and would have not even begin to think about some such as Internet dating. Of coarse the old fashioned way of meeting someone in person and talking to them to find out what there all about is still used today but even with that method we sometimes use emails and text messages to communicate. So in my opinion it is still a new form or relationship dating as well.
Could all this new ways of working, thinking, communicating, and now dating be good for us? In my opinion i think so. I think that using what ever resources that you think is best for yourself is never a bad thing. Because it is your life and you are in control of what you want for yourself. I think that everyone is different and that there is no wrong way to try to find that someone for yourself as long as you feel comfortable. For me i am more of the old fashioned way and like meeting people in person and talking and getting to know them. But in turn my best friend is a user of Internet dating and i support her choice because she is comfortable with it and feels that it is the option that will work best for her. This just goes to show that not only is there so many options on how to meet new people, but to connect to others on a whole new level, a relationship level.

REFLECTION on differences b/w fake email and your email etiquette essay

When we wrote our first fake email to a friend discussing a bad grade in one of our classes, it was fairly simple. This being because of the lack of rules that where put on the assignment. You could say that it had a little more freedom. With allot of freedom like that to write a paper, for me it is way easier and simple because i can write my thoughts down and not have to worry about following a format. For some people guidelines and a specific formats make it easier to write a paper but for me i think other wise. With the email etiquette essay, i find it extremely difficult to follow the specific format mainly because i have trouble with wanting to say what i want to say and not following the rules of the paper. As a personal problem, i have trouble following rules in general. This is probably the main reason behind why i find following the format so difficult. When we wrote to our fake friend about our bad grade and complained, it really just flowed off the top of my head and everything went pretty smooth. Dealing with the email etiquette essay, the rules of trying not to use "you" and "your" i found pretty challenging. Another thing that was a little less challenging but still had me a little caught up would be not to use contractions in our essay. I think that the big difference from the two assignments would have to be the restraints that where put on the two. One being more open and free, then the other being more formal and proper. Which would make sense because of how the two are different. One to be approaching your teacher and the other to a friend. I think that both assignments work very well into each other because we started off with an informal one then got harder with a formal one. I find both assignments helpful and something that i will definitely be using in the future.

SEPT. 21 class reflection

Today In class we brought our rough draft for our first paper due on Friday. We first started out getting into our groups so we could help each other with any difficulties we where having with it. Thankfully all of my team members had there rough drafts and where prepared and ready for suggestions and comments. We where to read the assignment out loud in front of our group members and then go back and fix any of the problems that we would come across. My group had allot to say about each email that was read, which is a good thing because i feel that a paper can always be improved and hearing other views and comments are always a good thing. When i read my paper in front of my group, they quickly suggested comments about how i have stirred off from the rules regarding this paper. Some of the rules that i was not following would be using the word you or your. me and my group broke down every sentence and corrected all the yous and yours that where in my email. We also corrected the other rule that i was braking allot with contractions. We again, broke down each sentence and fixed all the contractions that it contained. We did this exercise for all of our papers and found that it was well worth it. This style of correcting our papers was extremely different from the way we did in high school, which would be give your paper to one or two more people and have them make changes. To me this is a way better exercise and i also find it more helpful. The reason being is mainly because when you read your paper out loud you will find that some sentences don't make sense or do not flow as well as something else would. I think that this exercise that was done in class was more than helpful and has already effected my paper in a positive way.

Email Etiquette Reflection

Today in class we received our assignment which would involve us to write an email to one of our perfessors about changing the grade they gave for a better one. This is a first time thing for me mainly because in High school the grade you got was the grade you got. There really was no discusing your grade or trying to convince your teacher that you deserve better than what he or she gave you. Another big difference about writting this email would be that i haven't really experienced this situation yet so im sort of in a bine of making it up. I supose i could always use my imagination but having a real life experience would help me more in my opinion. I feel this way because i would get more into it because of the strong feelings i would have about the topic. Kind of along the lines of having to be in the mood. I think that going over the assigment in class was a great idea and help alot of us out. Not only did she just give us the paper and say go and tell us a due date like most teachers might do, but she broke it down by making all of us read it out loud and answer questions on what we where reading. Another big thing that happened would be the detail examples that she did for us. Braking it down into another format such as an angry boyfriend telling another guy to leave his girlfriend alone. This example was not only interesting and funny but it did in its own way brake down the assignment that we are about to due. Todays class was very helpful and i feel that this assignment is already starting off in a good path.

Articles- Al Gore: Should Schools Be wired to the internet-&& How to Bring Our Schools Out

When you think about schools and you think about the internet, you can offten find yourself saying that the two in a way tie into one another. Mainly because everything we do is revolved around using some sort of technology and can often seem like there is no other way to proceed with one with out the other. The article that Al talks about is all schools being wired to the internet. Could this be a good thing or a bad thing?

I mean eventually the student are going to encounter getting online and using the internet in some sort of way just because that is how our world works now. No more just pen and paper, but email addresses and the internet in general.

Some would say that technology in elementary schools would be too much, or exposing them at a young age to the internet would not be the smaetest choice to make. In my opinion, this sort of information could also be offered at home, so what would be the difference of having it in the schools through all ages.

I think that exposing this technology would help students that would later on grow up to have trouble with computers. in doing this might lessen the chances of students having to take computer classes in high school or even in college.

This could also help the student save money and help good writting habbits develop at a young age. The reason for saying this would mainly be because when your younger it is easier to learn something rather than when your older. another example of this would be learning how to swim or even, bigger drive a car.

Bringing the school's out and into the texhnology would really doesn't have a down side. Assuming that they stay focused and not trying to do anything in a bad way. which would come from good parenting and good influences through there school life and life in general.

Articles

While reading the article's, you cant help but think what is the message they are trying to get across to you. Some are advertising a new program that benefit college students and some that seem to be selling a product. One article in particular would be the new technology that Purdue University is starting this two thousand nine fall semester. This program is called "signals" and is for the main purpose to increase college students grades and over all way they approach a class. The way this program works is that as soon as the students log onto there accounts there will be the program kind of working like a stop light showing hoe the students are doing in there classes.
The basic colors, red, yellow and green are significant in there own way. The red is the worst. Meaning that the student is failing and could possibly lose credit for that class. The yellow is reserved for students that are not doing there best but also just getting by. This does not mean that the student is absolutly safe from failing but should take a little more effort before the light hits red. Which in turn would mean that they have hit the failing mark. The last and final color green. Reserved for students that are not only turning in the homework on time and scoring high on test in the classroom, but also with extra help. This along the lines of scheduled tutoring, login's when they check there updates for there classes and what they'll be doing in that class.
This system does not only tell the student what there grade or color they have in each subject, but it also gives the college student advice on what they can do to improve. It suggest resources that they should look into such as tutors and notes from there professors saying what can be done to improve. This new program has not yet reached SAC yet, but while reading the article i couldn't help but fell like they where making it seem like it should be in every college campus.
Another article that had a twist on the subject was "Txtng the gr8 db8". This talked about how technology is not only changing but could possibly be changing for the bad. Now that people have so many ways of talk to each other that it has beegan to affect the way we right. This along the lines of our grammar and also our english language as well. This article makes the argument that not only is texting effecting the way we right but also the way people are changing with social patterns. In my opinion, when we use writting it will imporve our overall writting and will not effect us in a bad way.

Reflecting on todays discussion, your group and upcoming assignments.

The begining of our first group assignment is already looking like a great one. We also have a new team member making six of us in all and everyone seems to be clicking automaticly. It's kind of on the line of all of us beening different like a magnet but opposites attracking and now excited to get the job done. We also received our agenda for the class and all the requirements that we will have to complete. Another thing we did was learn how to get on to the website and follow the agenda from there. On there we can also find the articles we will be having to read and discuss in front of class. For my team, "All Stars", our plan is to divide the articles up and make at least five questions about the article just in case the class doesn't have any questions for us when we present. The best part of having such a diverse team is to have different componets put together to form one great team like planetears from the cartoon Captin Planet. On Captain Planet team consits of children with different powers such as earth, wind, fire, and water to form one super team. For instance my team brings a lil bit of everything. Consisting of writer's, artist, and presenters. At first when we got the assignment it was a surprise because it was fast but the fact that my group took the challenge with open arms and no problems made me feel even more confident about my group and our work ethictics.

Fake E-Mail

Hey Jeremy how's college going for you so far? I got the pictures you sent me of the campus and it looks beautiful. A real old time feel, which is way different from anything down here in San Antonio. The weather up there looked real nice as well. Again, unlike San Antonio where it's hotter than the devil's kitchen, but it seems like its getting better, slowly. The only thing worse than the weather down here has got to be my accuplacer scores.

I wanted to take it again for the second time to see if I could score higher and get out of this remedial math class that I'm in, and still nothing. Right now I'm already taking it flex, which will make me only have the class for eight weeks instead of fifteen weeks. So i know what your thinking, it's not that bad, but what makes it difficult is that i know most of all the material that he's covering in class and it feels like a big waste of time for me to be in there when i could be getting another class done and over with. My student development class is teaching us about our strengths and weaknesses and i defiantly scored low when it came to study skills and test taking.

I'm trying my hardest not to get too bothered by all of this, but it's really a big deal for me to pass this accuplacer and start taking classes that are going to really count. You know how I am when I set a goal and focus on it. I want to reach it faster and do my best at it and i feel like this remedial class is holding me back,or at least slowing me down from becoming a nurse. The big thing that I'm going to do about the accuplacer is start taking practice test online. I did not know they had one of those and I know it will improve my test score a bunch. After all,it couldn't hurt it. I mean, if I showed you my scores, you would definitely agree with me.

I know that's its only the beginning of school and maybe I might be stressing this a little too much but it seems better to stress over it and get it done, than to not worry about it and forget to even take the test again. Hopefully I can send you another email in the near future talking about how i passed the accuplacer and am now that much closer to reaching the big picture which is being an RN. I hope everything is going good with you and the new school and I hope to hear from you soon.

Pauline C.