Welcome!

Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?

As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! We encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).

Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!

--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100



Saturday, September 25, 2010

Intro:



Heyy oh! :) My name is Carly Otterson. This is my first year at Whatcom. I recently graduated from WellSpring Community School. Most people I talk to have never heard of this school before. It's an alternative private school. I consider it to be much more intimate and creative based. The first year I attended WellSpring, there were only about 30 students. I started out at Sehome High School, where I was on the swim team for three years. But I ended up leaving Sehome after a year and a half because it just wasn't the right fit for me. One of my best friends (Carole, the lovely lady on the right in the picture) had been going to Wellspring, so she convinced me to attend and I fell in love with it. Through attending Wellspring, I have discovered I love interacting with people, and I love being able to express my creativity.
I'm working towards my AA, but I'm still not fully sure what I want to be, or where I want to transfer to. I know I am very interested in psychology and the arts.

I used to play soccer, and I still enjoy it.
Now, I have found a new love, dance.
I've taken hip hop, ballet, and jazz.

This past year and a half I had been volunteering at a place called BAAY (Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth). Kids from the ages of about 5-14 come to participate in different productions, dance, art, and puppet making classes.
I love being around little kids. I learn so much from being around them.

I love animals as well. I have a cat named Sophie. She can be mean sometimes, so I generally stay away unless she's in a good mood. Dogs are my absolute favorite though.

If you have any questions feel free to ask me, I'm pretty friendly:)
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