“Growing up Online”, by Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio, is a documentary about how internet and being online is affecting the kids of today. The documentary seemed to tell us that we can have an online identity different from our actual identity. “I just became this whole different person,” Autumn (Jessica Hunter) tells FRONTLINE. “I didn’t feel like myself, but i liked the fact that I didn’t feel like myself. I felt like someone completely different. I felt like i was famous.” Kids that are a little shy may use the technologies we have for comfort of a new identity and making new friends. When you are online you feel like you have no boundaries and can tell personal feelings to people who aren’t parents, but if you decide to put any information about yourself online it is open to anyone, anywhere. As more and more kids grow up online, parents are finding themselves on the outside looking in. “I remember being 11; I remember being 13; I remember being 16, and i remember having secrets,” mother of four Evan Skinner says. “But its really hard when its the other side. Kids have got to remember that parents have been in their shoes before, although maybe not during a big technological era, but they know about bullying, they know about having secrets and holding them from parents. ONe of the biggest concerns, and I’m sure it’ll be one of mine when I have kids is online predators. There are some sick people out there that have nothing better to do than stalk people online and try to find out where kids live. Everyone has technology, whether IPOD’s or cell phones, and with TV we have been exposed to a lot of media. “We almost have to be entertainers,” social studies teacher Steve Maher tells FRONTLINE. “They consume so much media. We have to cut through that cloud of information around them, cut through that media, and capture their attention.” I believe that parents and teachers have blown everything out of proportion. Kids know what to stay away from when online and know to keep of the phone or any electronic device while in school.
Technologies are privileges that some people abuse. I have no problem with any of the technologies i have been provided. I would have to say that although texting and online chat has changed how I write in the sense of spelling and grammar, It has had a small affect on me and anyone I know. The internet brings me answers for some unanswered questions I have, but I rarely use the internet for that. I use Facebook, and only Facebook. I interact with friends online. Theres nothing harmful to my life or my ability of writing with that. It has encouraged me to write more than I have in the past and keeps me up to date with my peers. As long as you have no addiction to the technologies that we have been provided than we should all be fine.
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
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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