The major thing about coming to school for me would be that I know im going to be learning new things that could benifit me in the future. Today when i walked into english class i realized that we would be doing something a little bit different from the ushal. Which would be opening our text books and following allong with the presentation on which ever team is presenting. Instead we took the class into the computer class room to log onto two different websites called Pandora and LastFm. Right away I assumed that these two websites where going to be related in English in some way and to my surprise they where the exact opposite.
The websites that Ms. Crawford showed us where related to music. As shocked as I was to hear about these new websites, I was even more excited to start the website and see what it is all about. As soon as I loged onto the website I can honnestly say that LastFm was complicated and a little bit confusing to do. I am not what some would call a computer genius but that the LastFm was more complicated than I expected it would be.
I then decided to log on to Pandora. Which in my opinion was a weird name to call a webite for music but I guess in it's own way it could be catchy. So I logged on to Pandora and atomaticly fell in love you could say. It was way more easier than LAstFm and in my opinion better all around. The first type of music that I typed in was classical music because it is my favorite type to listen to. I can honestlysay that I have not, not used Pandora since I was shown it that day in English class and having it to listen to while I write this blog makes it even better.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
#15 reflection on writting experience
For my descriptive essay, we are required to go to the writing lab at least once for help on our paper. This came as no surprise to me considering that for every paper we do in this class has to be seen by the writing lab before it is turned in. Fortunately enough for me, I was seen by the last lady that helped me with my last paper. This to me was better because I already knew the way she worked and her style of fixing things on my papers.
We then proceeded with my paper about talking and explaining the blog and what was happening in it and what it was all about. We then discussed the timeline and she agreed that it was a major help in the essay. We then went on and fixed some of the stuff i had already written. Things such as making them longer, short, and putting more detail into the essay. Considering it was a descriptive essay, i figures the more details the better.
We then talked about the ending which I was defiantly having trouble on. I could not decide weather I should just end it by telling how the video ended or should i try to express how the video blog made me feel before, after, and during the video. Her advise about the ending was that I should tell the reader how the video blog made me feel.
During the whole time of the session i felt that it was very productive once again and that next time for my next assignment I want to try to get everything that they would tell me during the session so that way I know that I'm getting a lot out of not only my English class but the help they provide there as well.
We then proceeded with my paper about talking and explaining the blog and what was happening in it and what it was all about. We then discussed the timeline and she agreed that it was a major help in the essay. We then went on and fixed some of the stuff i had already written. Things such as making them longer, short, and putting more detail into the essay. Considering it was a descriptive essay, i figures the more details the better.
We then talked about the ending which I was defiantly having trouble on. I could not decide weather I should just end it by telling how the video ended or should i try to express how the video blog made me feel before, after, and during the video. Her advise about the ending was that I should tell the reader how the video blog made me feel.
During the whole time of the session i felt that it was very productive once again and that next time for my next assignment I want to try to get everything that they would tell me during the session so that way I know that I'm getting a lot out of not only my English class but the help they provide there as well.
Other people's blog's #14
When i sit in front of my computer and get on to blogger.com, I do not expect or think about what others will say or comment about my blogs. This is mainly because of the topics of my blogs and how I know that they are just for my English class. Today in class we went to the computer lab and where told that we would be looking at our fellow classmates blogs and not onllyreading it but commenting on there blogs as well. When I realized what I was. going to be doing I was a little nervous mainly because I was scarded my blogs would not make sence to who was reading it. When I write my blogs i sometimes ust write them to meet the legth of what Ms. Crawford sets out and others about how i really felt of what we did in class or mty feelings to a cerain topic. So then as i was reading fellow classmates blogs and commenting on them i realized that they must be feeling the same way I am about there own blogs because I have to amdmit that some did not makes sence or nd just where not at all interesting in anyway. Regarless I continued commenting and found that reading others blogs made me feel better about them reading mine about mine. In all i agree that the assignment was helpfuly, then again, when is there ever an assignment in class that isn't? =)
#13 Timeline in Class Assignment
Today in Class we would be taking our video blog to the next step and start our six paragraph paper that wil be typed and turned in the following monday. I seem to always find that starting a paper is the hardest part of it all mainly because I know I have so much to say and I want to make an empression on the reader and have them hooked so they want to read the rest of what I have wrote.
The assignment in class was that we would be starting the first part of our essays and making a timeline about the video blog. The main thing on starting this timeline is mainly breaking my video down into three sections at first. Those being the begginning, middle, and end. Right there I would have three paragraphs and only three left to write. Suddently, I could feel the weight liftting off my shoulders as I knew that the timeline was working and helping me figure out how to write my paper.
After we broke down the three main parts of the blog I would then go back and fill in the parts of the blog that came in between the three main parts. This was a little more chalenging and would take more ttime then the other three that where a breeze to write. As i watch the video blog over and over, countless times, i realized that i knew everything about it and that filling in the middle peices and completeling the six paragraph essay was already near the end and being finished.
The outline assignment that we did in class was very helpfull and I would recommend it to anyone that has a essay or paper due that requires a certainatnt amount of length to it because it does help and does increase the legth and help with the flow of the paper aswell.
The assignment in class was that we would be starting the first part of our essays and making a timeline about the video blog. The main thing on starting this timeline is mainly breaking my video down into three sections at first. Those being the begginning, middle, and end. Right there I would have three paragraphs and only three left to write. Suddently, I could feel the weight liftting off my shoulders as I knew that the timeline was working and helping me figure out how to write my paper.
After we broke down the three main parts of the blog I would then go back and fill in the parts of the blog that came in between the three main parts. This was a little more chalenging and would take more ttime then the other three that where a breeze to write. As i watch the video blog over and over, countless times, i realized that i knew everything about it and that filling in the middle peices and completeling the six paragraph essay was already near the end and being finished.
The outline assignment that we did in class was very helpfull and I would recommend it to anyone that has a essay or paper due that requires a certainatnt amount of length to it because it does help and does increase the legth and help with the flow of the paper aswell.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Description about my Blog choice
Finding the right video blog for this assignment was not what I thought it would be. I thought that picking the blog would have been fairly simple because of all the verities that were out there. In fact my theory was wrong about it being easy and the simplest part of the whole assignment. This was mainly because I was torn between several blogs that where interesting and would make good topics to write about in my descriptive essay. I narrowed it down to three main blogs that met the length requirement that I was looking for and then blindly picked one by touching my computer.
Now that the hard part was over, sitting down and writing the blog was going to be fairly simple. I had made the assumption that having to write a six paragraph paper was going to be hard and take some time, but then again the opposite had happened to me. I had followed the timeline that we had done in class previously and just by doing the begging, middle and found myself writing way more than just six sentences into one paragraph. Not that this is necessary a bad thing to happen but one paragraph was looking in the form of one page length. I could already see my details coming into place and making my paper stronger and longer.
Writing the three main points being begging, middle, and end was a fairly easy task and when it came to all the parts in the middle it all seemed to be flowing in a way where I would have to talk about what was happening and then tie it into the next paragraph that was already written out. I found this helpful because it worked as a guideline to stay on track and not lose focus on what my paper was going to be about. In the end I think that my final paper will be successful and that I did indeed choose a good blog.
Now that the hard part was over, sitting down and writing the blog was going to be fairly simple. I had made the assumption that having to write a six paragraph paper was going to be hard and take some time, but then again the opposite had happened to me. I had followed the timeline that we had done in class previously and just by doing the begging, middle and found myself writing way more than just six sentences into one paragraph. Not that this is necessary a bad thing to happen but one paragraph was looking in the form of one page length. I could already see my details coming into place and making my paper stronger and longer.
Writing the three main points being begging, middle, and end was a fairly easy task and when it came to all the parts in the middle it all seemed to be flowing in a way where I would have to talk about what was happening and then tie it into the next paragraph that was already written out. I found this helpful because it worked as a guideline to stay on track and not lose focus on what my paper was going to be about. In the end I think that my final paper will be successful and that I did indeed choose a good blog.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
You Tube Reflection
From writing a letter, to writing an email, or from talking on the phone, to texting. Our way of communication through the years have changed and have also become more advanced. Back in the day when it use to take maybe three to five days for you to send a check for your billing utilities and now you can do it instantly through the computer. It has advanced in a way that we can easily go into a coffee shop and talk to another person in Japan if we really wanted to.
Our communication with each other had evolved and has become more advanced, and in my opinion for the better. One form of communication that is sweeping the world would be Video Blog. In other words Vlog. It is not simply people writing about who they are and certain topics but making a video and posting it on the Internet for anyone to see. This is considered a form of communication because others that watch your video can post comments about it and you can talk to them back as well. This new and advanced form of communication is in other words spreading like wildfire through the world and now it seems like you can not run into someone that has not watched, commented, or posted a video blog. The most popular site for this sort of thing would defiantly have to be You Tube. Here people post videos about what ever topic they want and the really good one could and have in the past get famous off of it. One example the the video talked about would be the hip hop and rap artist Solja Boi. His video started from posting his new song and dance on You Tube and then shot to being discovered and signed to a record label. This has happened countless times and only seems to be getting bigger.
The blog was informational about how the ways of communication is changing and how we will have to re-think allot of stuff, including ourselves. The video goes over how people are literally talking to a camera and how they have no clue who they are communicating to and are OK with it. Could this be a good thing for society?Could this new way of communication be good for us in the long run? Well so far in my eyes i do not see the harm in people expressing themselves or there opinions through video blogging. I think that the video blogging will only becoming more popular as the years go by and that this new form of communication gives options for different people that are not comfortablewith the regular meeting in person and talking on the phone style.
Our communication with each other had evolved and has become more advanced, and in my opinion for the better. One form of communication that is sweeping the world would be Video Blog. In other words Vlog. It is not simply people writing about who they are and certain topics but making a video and posting it on the Internet for anyone to see. This is considered a form of communication because others that watch your video can post comments about it and you can talk to them back as well. This new and advanced form of communication is in other words spreading like wildfire through the world and now it seems like you can not run into someone that has not watched, commented, or posted a video blog. The most popular site for this sort of thing would defiantly have to be You Tube. Here people post videos about what ever topic they want and the really good one could and have in the past get famous off of it. One example the the video talked about would be the hip hop and rap artist Solja Boi. His video started from posting his new song and dance on You Tube and then shot to being discovered and signed to a record label. This has happened countless times and only seems to be getting bigger.
The blog was informational about how the ways of communication is changing and how we will have to re-think allot of stuff, including ourselves. The video goes over how people are literally talking to a camera and how they have no clue who they are communicating to and are OK with it. Could this be a good thing for society?Could this new way of communication be good for us in the long run? Well so far in my eyes i do not see the harm in people expressing themselves or there opinions through video blogging. I think that the video blogging will only becoming more popular as the years go by and that this new form of communication gives options for different people that are not comfortablewith the regular meeting in person and talking on the phone style.
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