In the video “Growing Up Online” the topic of technology and how it is affecting teen lives was discussed. The main issue brought to attention was how websites such as Myspace and Facebook are puncturing our safety shield. In this new day and age young adults and teenagers are growing more are more comfortable with sharing their personal business with the World. Why share your problems with your parents who seem to only want to take things away and punish you when you can share them with anybody and everyone? About 90% of teens are on the internet on a regular basis. It has become part of their lives as a way to socialize and connect with friends and family. What teens don’t think of is how once they put any information out on the web it is available for anybody to look at; from a sexual predator to a school bully. Parents should be very cautious when allowing their teenagers to use the internet. Internet may have caused the largest generation gap since Rock n’ Roll but it is ten times as dangerous because it opens up your life to whoever wants in.
I remember when I used to sit in front of a computer and waste hours on end talking about pointless crap, but now I would much rather pick up my guitar and play some Rock n’ Roll. Writing a song is my way of communicating with anybody who wants to listen. I can record my songs onto a CD (instead of posting blogs or picture comments) and then anyone who wants to can listen. My songs are just like any web page you can create on Myspace or Facebook; they are exactly how I want them to be and can say whatever it is I want to say. No rules or regulations, and especially no one in charge trying to tell me what’s good and what’s bad. Now that I’m no longer in high school I look back and realize that Myspace and Facebook did nothing but cause drama and make it easier to say things that you would never think of saying to somebody’s face. I’m glad I missed out on all the ruckus and kept my personal life personal. Rock n’ Roll will always be King but the internet is certainly putting up a fight for the title.
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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