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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



Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Michael Wesch's video responce

            In the video, A Vision of Students today no one speaks but, the message is very powerful. In the video there is a large class room full of students, and they hold up pieces of paper with information about their life as a student. Such as how they learn, what they do inside and outside of class, and what they learn for the assignments that they are assigned. The truth is that many students don’t even read their textbooks, and the students that do read the books read and write significantly more on the internet.

          A student in the video holds up a sign that says only 26% of the reading that are assigned to her are relevant to her life. In my opinion it is very important for any reading that is assigned to a student to be relevant to their life in one way or another because it will catch their attention more and they will absorb more information because they can relate to the subject. As a student, I can relate to the majority of the issues the students face on the video. For example the time I spend in class is significantly less than all of the time that I spend watching TV, using the internet or my cell phone. It is easy to get distracted from school especially with all of the things that are going in my life.
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