"It's not going away. It's not a passing fad." "It's like a currency." "I just became a wole different person...I felt like someone completely different. I felt like I was famous." What is all this talking about? The internet. In the 2008 Frontline documentary Growing Up Online, produced and directed by Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio, these opinions and others were presented about the teens of 21st century's dependence on the internet. In the video parents, teachers and teens shared stories and input on web use today. It was found that 90% of teenagers go online and they do it for different reasons but mostly to socialize. Teens say that they can be their true selves online or be someone completely different; it is an extent of self-expression. However there is a dark side to the web as well. With this open, public communication, cyber-bullying has become common. for those who become the victim of this there feels to be no escape from the far reaches of the web. The virtual world is in itself a very non-private place, but for most teens it is a world they would defend to keep secret from parents and adults.
The internet frustrates me and yet I use it so often. I did not even hardly use the internet until I was in high school (around 2004). It wasn't something I knew much about or understood, as far as I knew I had no use for it. Then, to help with research for school I heard of Google, and began using that. Later, I was told by teachers and friends to get an email account. And later on I learned how to look up stores on the internet to check what they sold. for me the impact the internet has on my life was very little at first, it just was another way for me to research. It was other people and school that actually almost forced me to use the computers and the internet. when all people do is give you an email or tell you to look them up on Facebook how else are to contact them unless you do what they suggest. Now, I do enjoy the ability to look up information quickly from home, but I prefer not to be as "connected" as most people are my age
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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