In the video documentary "Growing Up Online" by Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio, it shows how the internet is affecting kids and teens today. The documentary shows the pros and cons of growing up online. Most parents of the kids fear for the safety of their children because they are afraid of online predators, when the real problem that they need to be paying attention to is the trouble that their own child may be getting themselves into. One girl named Jessica Hunter never fit in in school, people always made fun of her and she wasn't happy with who she was because of that. At age 14 she decided to invent a "new" her online, which she named Autumn Edows. The new self she created was a goth artist and model. Soon after re-making herself she became big in the internet world, which her parents knew nothing about, and people loved her stuff. In an interview with FRONTLINE she tells them, "I just became this whole different person, 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 someone famous." The internet gives teens the chance to be someone completely different, and create their own world. It also raises the bullying of young teens. Cyberbullying is a huge thing that kids are stuggling with today, sure they may get bullied in school, but when it comes to online their are no limits. People say whatever they want to say and theres not much that anyone can do about it. Teens say mean things to eachother that they would never to say them face to face. There was a young boy named Ryan Halligan who was 13 years old. He was getting bullied at school, but that soon stopped, and it's place he was getting bullied online, his parents knew nothing about anything that he had done on the internet. After months of being bullied online he decided to hang himself in October 2003. There's sites that will tell you the best ways to commit suicide, and others that that help you with your eating disorders, not help you get through them, but to encourage it. Kids with eating disorders share tips on how to stay thin and encourage eachother not to eat and lose weight.
Most socializing nowadays happens online. Friends e-mail, facebook, and text eachother. That's how they socialize. The fact that we can socialize with pretty much everyone online, we hardly ever have to see eachother in person. sometimes when we do, we still go online instead of just talking. I personally would rather talk to my friends in person then talk to them over the internet or text. There's always a miscommunication over text. It's harder to explain things, and get your point across. I like to facebook and text my friends, but it's always better to actually spend time with them in person.
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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