The documentary “Growing up Online” by John Maggio and Rachel Dretzin is about the internet's affect on the new generation of teenagers. The documentary reveals the good and bad effects of the internet. It first tells about a girl who never got much attention at school but rather got picked on named Jessica Hunter, She was able to make an online persona at the age of 14 that made her slightly renown on the internet. She feels as if she is someone else online and it makes her happy when people appreciate her modeling. The documentary also explores a boy and his mothers fear of internet privacy. It tells of conflict between his mother and himself. Then the documentary follows a father who's son was cyber bullied into committing suicide. "John Halligan's son Ryan was bullied for months at school and online before he ultimately hanged himself in October 2003. 'I clearly made a mistake putting that computer in his room. I allowed the computer to become too much of his life,' Halligan tells FRONTLINE."
I believe my life has been reduced to mostly online socializing. Weather I play Xbox live with my friends, text them or just talk to them on facebook. It's gotten rid of the need to socialize in person. I even find that when me and my friends do hang out that we end up using the internet just the same. It almost makes it pointless to go see people now a days. I feel that this isn't a very good movement though because I'm a fairly ambitious person. I don't necessarily like to sit at home all day. It's kind of frustrating that I'll be talking to my friends on facebook, we'll decide to hang out and then just spend the rest of the day on facebook. However not everyone is like this I just find it occurring frequently.
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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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