Wednesday, November 4, 2009

summerize articles 10/16

Basically the articles talked about face book and its bad thing and goods, one of the articles talked about how there is a correlation that face book users tend to have low grades and don’t do their homework unlike people who don’t use such sites. My opinion is that these statistics are ridiculous, I think there is no relationship between the two it is just a matter of the person who is being analyzed. This statistic is a negative view of what face book and how it affects the youth of our time. Basically that is the summary of this article and its view on face book. Another article is about colleges scanning and watching face book during its admission and how it can be an invasion of privacy, it’s like your boss getting information about you on face book by watching your profile and then firing you for something bad you put, basically it is a negative way to use face book and how you put on the net can affect you in real life. Would you put something controversial that may ruin your reputation? That is why you have to be careful on what you put because it may cause losing you better opportunities and impressions on someone else. No one knows who is going to be watching your profile, but only you can say what to put in your space. Face book is for you and it is about you but have in mind that who is going to be watching you information because you never know when the opportunity might come to make your impression. Face book can be a tool where you can share with your friends or a portal where anybody can see what you’re up to and judge you by your content that you post to the whole world, whether it is your family or friends watching, be careful it might be your ex lover or your boss watching you. If face book is making us dummier then we’d all be a victim of it because there are millions of users and it will be an insult to the face book community. My advice is keep your grades up and be careful on what you put because it may affect your personal life. As personal as face book is sometimes it was meant to be trespassed, what you put is a sign that you want people to see the real you.

Friday, October 16, 2009

reflecting todays experience

Today were put in partners and were asked to discuss our paper. The teacher Ms. Crawford required us to make a timeline describing every part of our vlog, she made us do like an organizer for our ideas and put them together from the smallest detail to the main point of this whole essay. The method she used was a very interesting one and enlightenment to the whereabouts of how to start of the essay, it provided tips and tools to better detail our written report. We used every kind of detail that was given in the video to make clear everything that surrounds the subject on the vlog. Everything from what he wears to the sound in his place and especially how he sounded in his video, what he wore and the issue he was talking about. The technique the teacher showed helped me a lot organizing my thoughts onto my essay and my partner’s help were very handy in fact I helped with her paper that she needed too. Her advice was just as good as mine that we need to add more details and make the story more comprehensible without losing touch of the main topic; we basically just took our ideas to another direction in writing and not to bore with uninteresting ideas to make it seem interesting in the subject we are about to write. The knowledge that was given to us was a very helpful piece and I will be forward to using this method in my paper in hopes to create a better essay to a better grade in my course in English.

Brief Description About our "Vlog"

Vlogs are all very interesting in their own unique way; it is a video about each one’s thoughts expressed in a very different and awkward way. Still, many people use it in millions and most are just regular people just looking to experience something new yet usually curiosity wins. My Vlog was about a guy who goes by the name of audible484, a rapper who is vlogging about his music but at the same time he feels as if it was something weird, he describes this feeling and his emotions kick in, he seemed very nervous and could not help stumbling over his words but still he played it off and went more onto his music. His living room was all white and he was dressed with a dark sweater with a shirt that had tuxedo designs on it and the background you could hear the song superman playing by Eminem, he gave opinions about his music and at the same time asked viewers to check out and make comments about his music and gave links to his MySpace on how to communicate personally with him. His propaganda about his music was different because it is a way to spread his style of music through the YouTube audience and was a very effective way to increase his publicity and his music. The YouTube and the music business always go good together and that’s how it relates to this upcoming star with big dreams. His motivation is very interesting and would like people to hear his music and his style and share his knowledge and skills on the microphone. Any vlogger would be shy at first it is an awkward feeling being in front of millions of people and feeling like there is no one watching, audible484 was very descriptive and also expressed his nervousness in front of the webcam , he felt like he could do it but at the moment it was a very weird and long experience. So I leave this vlog to tell you that the world now a day is growing like anything in this world thanks to YouTube and maybe you should try this wondrous experience.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Reflect on Today's YouTube Video

Today we were assigned to watch a very interesting YouTube video. Our teacher was explaining how today in the world mostly everything is made throughout the Internet and made us watch this long but very interesting video. We had to reflect upon this anthropological introduction to the knowing of YouTube. First it gave an actual statistic on how it had more views than any other network in the U.S. Their numbers were amazing and their ratings were way better then television just by doing simple videos on the net. YouTube has expanded its ratings all over the world; anyone can view any video from any place. You Tube has more viewers than the highest rated television network. More interesting facts are that people use it for a variety of reasons regarding YouTube, many people or better said most people use it for comedic and interesting bizarre things that are being recorded using video cameras. It showed how a normal but interesting video made itself famous and viewed all around the world, one example was a guy who came to this country felt very lonely because he had no friends, so he held up a sign while people were walking, the sign said “Free Hugs” and as more and more people say that everybody stopped and gave the man hugs, he started growing popularity and more and more people were spreading this heartwarming movement, people from all over the country started doing this and soon it spread all over the world. Another interesting use of YouTube was the “Vlogs” which basically was a blog but instead of typing you say the blog, more and more people started this and soon became a new experience especially for new users, “it is a awkward feeling talking to a web cam to millions of people, yet, you feel like no one is there” basically YouTube is a whole new generation of technology understanding and bringing people together, so many videos can make you feel so many emotions, YouTube has become the most talked, viewed, and most popular tool on the Internet and in the world.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

reflect on difference between blog 3's and email essay

I will discuss on how my email essay has evolved and differentiated wen i first started and how every single help that i got contributed to my essay. My first draft looks like a mess when i look at it today, it is a very big difference and it has taught me a lot about writing passages. The hardest part was setting an appointment for the writing center, it was a challenge because many people also think that the writing center is a big help and a line is there just to revise over papers. That was a challenge and an experience for so i can better prepare myself in the future. Mainly all of the hard part was the meeting for the revising and trying to get the best draft possible.

Now it looks way different than it used to, it looks smart, simple and easy to follow without loosing interest. A very big help that appointment was and very insightful the instructors were. Hopefully in the future i will prepare so that i can look forward to a meeting to further my knowledge and learn new ways to expand my editing and revising for a better paper. That is usually all i got to say it was a very learning experience, i should definitely invite people whenever they have questions or doubts or who just want suggestions on how to better an essay.

reflecting on workshop experience

When i finished my rough draft i was told for me to go to the writing center and get help from them, i really did not know what i was doing. I was told it was mandatory in order to pass the email essay. When i got it was all like a computer lab but what i didn't know was the help there was so useful that my draft was filled with lines and corrections that i didn't even realize. They helped me solve for better words and shorten run ons so that my writing was more legible and my paragraphs more structured. It was very useful and it took only suggestions and advice to solve problems on my essay. So if anyone wants to get professional help just go to the writing center and set your appointment.

I also got help from my fellow classmates and suggestions and advice so that i can further my writing. Many things were said usefully pinpointing errors and common mistakes, I learned that i use repetition a lot and i will try to fix that so i can write more professionally in a near future. Anyway my experience was very useful and i know we will be working more often in groups so tat we can help each other to better our writing.

summerize two articles given today 9/18

Can you imagine that back then there wasn't such a thing as a dating service online, now it is something you must try just so you can meet that perfect someone but can alsohave bad consequenses if not well protected. One of the articles it talked about e-harmony being against gays. it is said that they only match peaple of the opposite sex and is not open to such ways of living, it heated off a debate towards this. It said that the website owner was a christian man and did not support such matches but it cant be done nothing about this subject. i think services should be open to anyone because it will be a benefit to the owner, im not saying to benefit from that beleif but allow it so that the world would not be so close minded.

Another article was a about this guy who met someone but turned out to be a guy. it is very disappointing end to such relacionship which the site user did not like at all. it also talked about the class rules on how each has to date their own class in that country. I think that people should be more careful what they get into while dating online because you never know what you are going to get into with such technology. Both articles were very interesting and very knowledgeable that technology is advancing in higher rates.