#14 SuperBlog

This semester in English 101 blogging gave me a chance to do something that I never thought I would have to do. I felt like a teacher writing a statement on the board and students commenting. Starting a blog was a great way to distinguish our class from other English 101 classes. Even if you were not a great writer and didn’t have a ton of insight, it gave us a way to look at how to analyze what you were reading in the Reader. I found it very interesting that we blog instead of talking in class so much. I did feel that we could have used a more better prompt, or website. Some students did not do their blogs because they either forgot, or felt that it was not worth their time. Using the Reader book was also an epic fail. I did not like it for blogging. Most blogs fail because; 1.) We get off track trying to blog about a long post that the teacher posted. 2.) We do not understand what is being asked. 3.) We lack focus. 4.) Students do not update their blogs, so we can not comment. Blogging was very difficult we should have used another method. We can try a different way of blogging to help the students get the blogging grade they need.
The Reader book was a big source that was necessary for blogging in this class. I did not like using the book, because the essays were not something you can automatically understand. It took more time to sit read, and understand this than to blog. Some students did not even have the book. This was a waste of time. The teacher could have used the journal post to do a blog instead of having a journal in a notebook in class. That just gave us an extra book to carry around, no matter how small or big it was.
When the teacher post a blog with a numerous amounts of questions, and a numerous amounts of parts to go along with the question a student tends to lose track. We can not keep up with they many questions a teacher ask, especially if we are having difficulty understanding what was read. A teacher posting a long blog tends to upset us if we do not understand, so we give up. Sometimes we do not understand what the teacher is asking, because we do not analyze what was read, or do not go over what we read. This can be another down fall of blogging.
Lacking focus is something all college students do. Focusing is a very challenging thing when you have a lot going on. Not reading the book, or not paying attention can cause us to focus less. We expect to get on the website, and it will automatically be easy for us. Being on the internet blogging is just giving us more time to face book, or twitter. We end up losing focus because we log onto other websites.
Some students feel that blogging is not a priority for that class, so they do not update their blogs on Wednesday. It is wasting time for those who do their blogs. We can not comment on other students blogs, and we do not get points for commenting on Friday’s . They are making us get a bad grade because they do not post blogs. I do not think that this is fair.
We should have used a different method of blogging. I would suggest face book. Everyone uses face book and it is just like commenting on a blog. People spend more time on face book than doing homework anyways. This would have been a better and easier way of doing things. We would not have to worry about the letters that we have to type for verification before posting a blog. We would not have to worry about creating a new username, email, and password. We would not have to worry about confirming comments from peers. Face book is also faster we do not have to keep going back and look at the question in another window. We can comment as we go.
We could even talk about it with other students from other classes, instead of just commenting on three people from our group. That would help us better understand. Follow a blog was also a problem for me. On face book all we have to do is add that person as a friend you can see their bio, and even more. face book blogging is a great suggestion.

There are different methods of blogging instead of using Blogger.com. I think it would be better if we tried a different method/website. It would be helpful, and the students grades would improve for the blogging points. Using something students are used to would give a student a better chance. Blog post can be a failure in many ways.

#11

1)  A person has Baccalaureate degree, but they weren't content with their field of study, so they only half heartedly worked toward their degree. Also, they cheated on the final exam that they took right before getting the degree. Can they still be considered intelligent?
- The person can still be considered intelligent. They managed to stay in college regardless of what they did. They are not considered unintellegent because of the decision they decided to make. They aer still intellegent to me.


2)  Bill Gates was a college drop out.  Do we consider him intelligent?  Why or why not?  How might this affect your criteria for your definition of intelligence?
- We do not know why he dropped out of college.He could have had many reasons, but we still consider him intelligent. He invented something no one else ever thought of. He is a practical genius. We would have never known he was a drop out. He is a billionaire.

3)  A man with a BA goes into politics and proposes going to war with another country.  He knows the war will drag out, and he knows many people will be killed during the duration of it.  Was this an intelligent decision?  Are people we admit are intelligent allowed to make unintelligent decisions from time to time?  Why or why not?  How might this affect your criteria for your definition of intelligence?
- this was an unintellegent decision. Some intellegent people make bad decisions, but we still consider them intellegent.This will not affect my criteria decision of intellegence.

Monday Nov. 7 Online Class Assignment

1.       After reviewing the information about the drafting introduction on page 3, review your own intro and decide what you can do to:

a.       more clearly show what is at stake for your issue

• In my introduction, to more clearly show what is at stake I can adress my topic more clearly and elaborate on it.

b.      more thoroughly contextualize your issue with background information (this is helpful for both intro and conclusion)

• I can elaborate more

c.       write a few sentences for a. and b. that you will insert into your next draft.

• A student who is considered an exemplary student, is a student who is outstanding, a student who is an over achiever, who sets goals and accomplish them.

2.       Review your topic sentences of your body paragraphs:

a.       Whether you are doing org. plan 1 or 2, your topic sentences should contain the criteria that you are discussing in the paragraph.  (Review bottom of page 4 and all of page 5). 

b.      If you have any main topic sentences (do at least two here) that don’t contain the criteria of your definition that you are about to discuss in your paragraph, paste the old sentence, then write the revision of it that you will change in your next draft, like this:

                                                               i.      OLD SENTENCE:   YADDA YADDA

                                                             ii.      NEW SENTENCE   YADDA YADDA now with criteria clearly stated so we know what to expect out of this paragraph

                               i.   OLD SENTENCE: An Exemplary student must do great things.

 

                               ii.   NEW SENTENCE: An exemplary student is a student who strives even though they do not understand.

 

                               i.   OLD SENTENCE: .In college we expect to go to school for our major and take only classes that relate to what our future career will look like

 

                               ii.   NEW SENTENCE: In college we expect to go to school for our major and take only classes that relate to what our future career will look like. We must go beyond what is expected, and do bigger things to have a higher chance of getting a job in our career.

                             

3.       Now, go through your body paragraphs and make sure that in the evidence sections of them, you are “developing” the criterion you are discussing, which means: explaining/defining each criterion for your definition.  By the end of your paper, we should be able to tell a) your definitions, b) the criteria for those definitions, and c) the definitions of those criteria. (Look at page 5, description of BP1).

a.       Find your shortest body paragraph.  This is a quick way to determine which one needs more development. 

b.      Paste it in.

c.       Then paste in a revision of it that contains more details and explanations of the criterion under discussion.

•   . A student who has a mastery of writing skills is a student who let the flow of words and thoughts process into one. They understand what they read and write. They write essays to get accepted into grad school, or write to get jobs. They know how to correctly spell words, or how to use grammar.

 

Revised: A student with a mastery of writing skills are the students who are more likely to get the job. They use their common sense as well as other sense to help them understand. They study, as well as reading and writing.

4.       Look over one of your rebuttal areas.  If you have one (and you should; “considering the opposition” or “other viewpoints” is on the rubric) look for a way to revise it to be more developed, if you don’t have one, make one now to add into your next draft.  Review page 6 and the ways that you 1) acknowledge opposition to your argument, 2) but prove how the opposition is not strong enough to invalidate your argument.

a.       Paste in the old and new rebuttal sections

b.      Or say that you hadn’t gotten around to that yet in your first draft and make one up now to include in your next draft.

Discussion #10

Claim: No, having good writing skills does not make you an excellent student.

Reason: because there are other skills that makes you the student that you are. Not everyone is good in writing, or even speaking. I do not think that you must write an essay to enter Grad school.

Warrant: Good writing skills just prove that you can write, not everyone will obtain good writing skills no matter no long they have been writing. Writing is not a gift for everyone.

discussion #9

1.Rich is stating that all women must step up and play the role.she quotes "we have two choices: to lend our weight to the forces that indoctrinate women to passivity. depreciation, and a sense of powerlessness, in which case the issue of taking women students seriously is a moot one; or to consider what we have to work against, as well as with, in ourselves, in our students, in the content of the curriculum, in the structure of the institution, in the society at large"

 

2.  I feel some people think that b/c we are women we are catergorized differently. I don't think it has anything to do with race anymore, maybe back then. I do not feel any racism of any kind now.

Discussion #8

A.) I spoke the same language at home and in school. I had a boyfriend who was hispanic and Spanish was his first lanugage. He found it difficult to communicate with me, especially being black. Our dialect is so diverse now. He learned the basic english, not the Urban english. I found it ver y annoying, but I had to respect his culture.

 

B.) The field I have chosen is Speech Pathology. I will have to speak other languages for certain people I encounter.

C.)It will be important b/c a Speech Pathologist work with people of all ethnicies.

 

 

2A.) yes. A family does change as the children grow up. When a child is younger he/she has no choice but to bond together. When they grow up it's like they want to be on their own and not be told what to do, when to do it, or how to do it. To be successful yes we have to sacrafice.

 

 

2B.) No, we just all talk differently, and Academics help.

2C.) I think he valued his first language and it was challegning losing it. 

#7

I am doing Lisa D. Deplit's  "Education in a Multicultural Society: Our Future's Greatest Challenge." Her purpose was to help the reader's understand of what happends in a classroom between a student and a teacher in our diverse socciety.  Her attitude was formal. She uses alot of examples from real student, and even from her own experience. The purpose of her audience is to expalin how multicultural students are in a bind. The attitude of her audience should be serious. Those reading this paper, may feel like I felt while reading. I found it very hard to analyze.