In the video text “Growing up on line”(January 22,2008) produced and directed by Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio they go into the lives of teenagers. They want to know how the internet is effecting them and what it has caused some people to do. In this video some dramatic things happen that could happen to other people if they weren’t careful. The kids talk about some stuff that they have seen or done. Some girls display them self as older women instead of their normal age. Seven year old kids have their own chatting and gaming site on the internet and can add anybody they think they know. With the internet being in so many peoples lives teachers have to try to entertain the students just to keep their attention. Online relationships are happening too, this is when the people say they are in a relationship, but they never or barley ever see or talk to eachother in person and they don’t or maybe talk on the phone the only way they really communicate is talking on the computer and sending pictures. Lots of parents are concerned for their childs safety on the computer. In most cases nothing ever happened s to the child, but there is that rare chance that something could. For example in the video there was a man named John and his son Ryan. Ryan had troubles at school with bullies and wanted his dad to teach him how to fight so his dad did. Eventually Ryan said that the bullies were leaving him alone. Until the day Ryans sister found his body hung in the bathroom. Ryan killed him self because he could not escape the bulling when it was happening in his own home on the computer. People can always talk to the internet, but when they do that they have to be ready for some other human being to find a way to read what they just wrote. Anyone can find away to get into someones personal things.
In my life internet has effected me a little bit. Myspace was the first chatting site iv ever had. Media is a scary and fun thing at the same time. It was super fun finding all these new people and see all my old friends. Sometimes though I would get a lot of friend requests at the same time and I wouldn’t want to sit there and have to look at everyone so I would just add everyone. That was ok, but one time I had a guy ask me where I live and how old I was and stuff like that. When that happeneds I just delete that person, but that always makes me think ok they already have my name now they can probably find away to get into all my stuff. Although I like finding other kids that go to my school and then meeting them in person. I rarely talk to family on myspace , but I do talk to them on facebook. I seem to find that facebook is more for a family and good environment and myspace is mostly for the teenagers. In my opinion media has mostly been good to me so im not against it I do think though that people need to watch what they say on it.
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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
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
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