Growing up Online produced and directed by Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio is about many different stories about the internet. The short film includes interviews teachers, parents, teenagers, and kids about the internet. Such as C.J. Pascoe a sociologist at the University of California explained “the internet affords an independence to teenagers that I don’t think we’ve seen since the invention of the car”. This is the idea behind each story, that the internet is so big and open that anything can happen, from how the internet affects education to teenager’s lives. From cyber bullying to the internet being a person’s safe place where they feel welcome.
In my own life I have had many experiences with both negative and positive impacts. The internet has opened up many different benefits for me. I have learned how to type faster, use a computer better, give me the opportunity to write more, also is a fast easy tool to talk with other classmates about missed assignments or clarification on them. The internet is all in how you use it, for the most part I believe that everyone has the exact life they want on the internet. As for me I use it as a work tool and to talk to my friends and family on facebook. I do not randomly add people or talk to people I don’t even know. Or put information too personal up on my profile.
I think most to be honest who talk to random people or start a fight, put up inappropriate photos, bully or be bullied by others, give out personal information, or just live on the computer are all bored with their lives that they need to create drama and or controversy. They want attention that they do not get in the real world. So then it gets to the point where the internet becomes the real world. I am not saying everyone walks into some of these problems on purpose, but I think most have the exact internet life they want. There is no way any teenager that uses the internet has not the slightest idea of what they are getting into when they put up a picture of themselves in their underwear, add someone they don’t even know, or put their phone # up for all to see. Yes, I think we are all aware of what possible outcomes there can be.
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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