There are many different uses for technology and online resources, education is a big one and so is social networking. Growing up online shows you multiple views from people to why social networking is good and bad.
Growing Up Online is a great documentary of Chatham High School students using facebook and myspace. Students there see it as being online a second life where they can act fake or actually start to be their selves because they know no one will judge them. Multiple people experience cyber bullying which is a way to pick on kids when they are at home by calling them names and doing pretty much the same stuff that someone would at school, but over the internet using myspace, facebook, or even some instant messaging programs. Many students get so caught up in the internet social lifes that that’s all they end up doing. 90% of teens either have a myspace or a facebook. And the fact that parents don’t really know how to use recent technology they have no idea how to stop them from getting on being blocked out. For example, one kid was being monitored by his father and the kid found out then he popped open another window and linked it to his dad so it made it seem that he was researching something for class.
This documentary also shows that predators are always online and that almost every teen has been exposed to one or two. But what researchers came to find is that most teens know exactly what they do online and know exactly how to handle it and that’s what parents are getting curious about. I think that myspace and facebook can be good if you are using it for the right purposes of talking to your friends and simply just keeping in touch. But when used in the wrong way like meeting new people and not really knowing much about them, then that’s the bad part to online social networking.
I think this documentary was a good way to show parents and kids what is out there and what needs to be avoided and also that teens aren’t as dumb as some people think, they know how to hold themselves and they know when being on the internet there are people that they shouldn’t be talking to, and they don’t talk to them.
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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