IN “Growing Up Online”, by Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio, FRONTLINE, the movie shows how Internet access is a really big influence on teenager, whether it is positive or negative. Frontline states that “90% of teens are online, immersed from a virtual world”. Whether you’re a jock, an emo, goth, nerd, geek, etc. everyone has there own spot in the internet. With this being so, teenagers would be online line for ours tuning the real world out and into their own world in the internet where the can feel free to be them selves. This documentary shows multiple views of how people feel and what they do online. Jessica Hunter was interview by frontline. Life before the internet it was hard for her, she struggled to make friends through out her child hood and “struggle with constant humiliations” , but at the age of 14 she no longer struggled with that issue with her “image” on the internet. With the help of the internet 14 year old Jessica hunter was now a popular 18 year old Autumn Edows. Jessica became popular on the internet by posting risqué pictures of her self attracting peoples attention. With jessica’s parents not knowing about her second life on the internet, the school board found her site and told her parents. After her parents found out, her life as Autumn Edows was forced to be over shortly. As time passed by, Jessica missed the attention she got from the internet and told her parents that she would bring back Autumn because she wasn’t doing anything wrong and this time her parents supported her decision. This shows that the internet has the powers to make others feel famous. The internet is always a good thing, it doesn’t always help make others self-esteem bigger. John Halligan shared his story about his son and the internet. Ryan (john’s son) was once bullied at school before in the seventh grade. Ryan told his parents about what was happening and learned self defense. After learning self defense he then told his parents that the bullying was finished. But shortly after all the bullying that he claimed was done, he committed suicide. After the death of his son, John decided to research his sons computer to help find a reason of ryans death. Just by loggin on to his sons aim account, he immediately found out that ryan was a victim of cyber bullying. This documentary doesn’t only show how kids use the internet for personal use, it also shows how internet affects the children’s schooling. Some teachers find it hard to get their students attention when they would have social networking sites open. Even if they arnt on social sites, the interenet has many cheat sites for homework’s that students can use such as “sparknotes”. Some teachers now entertain their students by the use of technology in class. This documentary show the pro’s and cons of the internet. It can make you feel powerful and popular or it can hurt you such as cyberbullying, it can also help your education or just distract you from learning. It all just depends on how we use it.
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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