Welcome to Our Blog Conversations Beyond the Classroom!

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!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

A Vision of Students Today

This video is about how students today use technology to learn. it sugest that a lot of students when given the option to use technology are applying their abilitys in non productive ways. Students now a days read less out of books then they read pages of texts and emails. I believe that in this video it brings out a good connection to the artical "What Would Socrates Say" by Peter W. Cookson when he says "people have loads of information at there fingertips but they dont know how to use it." I believe this video itself is ironic because the people in the video and the video itself is made using the tecnology its contesting. I think it is intresting that 4.25 million people viewed this video on youtube. This video implys that back in the day chalkbord usage didnt give enough audio and visual feedback.
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  1. TommyMay 6, 2011 at 11:50 AM

    Great job on connecting the two pieces together. also addressing more than just the video stating how many people veiw the video.

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