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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation 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! I 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!

Friday, May 6, 2011

In watching the video of Michael Wesch’s (and his students’ at KSU) video “A Vision of Students Today.” I found I was mixed about it. Not quiet sure of the message i was getting from it. As I watched it a couple more times I got a couple more messages, that are scattered as the video. One thing that stuck out to me we the messages "I will read 8 books this year 2300 web pages and1281 facebook profiles" and "I will write 42 pages for class this semester and over 500 pages of email." I am thinking that maybe technology in the classrooms are a good thing but technology for the class rooms are not so great. As a college student each one of us is pushed to the limit as the school says challenge your self, most are hanging on by the thread. For those of us that are hanging on by a thread, How much of it is self inflicted. By self inflicted I mean staying on track and not Multi tasking to thing that are not necessary to school or life but then they are things that make us happy, such as Facebook and blogs. I am hoping to see more technology in the classrooms, but at the same time I hope that there can be a great balance of technology in the classroom as well as personal interaction.
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  1. genny-from-the-blockMay 6, 2011 at 11:53 AM

    I absolutely agree with you I like towards the end how you tell that your hoping to see more technology but at the same time hope we can find a balance between both classroom and personal interaction. I feel the same way.

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