Henry Petersen
Ms. Hammerbeck 100O
The camera man walks into a typical college like classroom, complete with multiple rows and columns of chairs. A beat that makes you want to pay attention. This video is letting us all know of the knowledge that we will or will not aquire through out college. It reaches out to the students in the classroom both in the video and the audience of the video. Nearly every student holds up a sign related to their college life. The problems of today's society and much more. It goes out to the students that are in these college classes, that are not even noticed by their superiors. That only 18% of these teachers know their students name. That money will be spent on books that will never be opened. It slowly moves into the video about technology. About how technology influences the people of our generation. Music, television, cellular phones, and computers are what fuels our learning today. Hours are spent in front of some sort of monitor whether its for school, or leisure activities. On top of all of our daily activities that we must do and there for continue our existence, paying for books that we won't use, writing essays that don't mean anything to us in class on paper that will determine our grades. It has slowly switched over to technology taking the place of our learning. From the blogs, to the news articles, and all other resources. The people that are in these classes aren't really being neglected by their teachers, but are being told to use technology rather than learn from a teacher. Instead there is an enormous amount of writing emails, and being on a computer rather than communication with a teacher in a smaller class size. The problems in the world today, not only reflect what we the people think about our world, but also are being passed down to the next generations after the top generations. Michael Wesch puts in his video towards the end that technology can save us. Or that technology alone can save us. Look where it's gotten us so far. Mass producing animals that will feed us and pollute our bodies at the same time. Computers that think for us and we can just kick back, and watch everything happen. Self cleaning vacuum cleaners. Technology may be making things easier for us but in the long run, eventually technology will have evolved so much to the point that we will no longer need teachers, where everything will be laid out for us on a monitor and we will do as we are told just as if it were a college professor. Technology may be advancing our lifestyles. But it is ultimately taking over what we would work.
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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