Difference btwn email blog and email essay

While in the tech lab during the second week of school , Mrs. Crawford’s English 301 class was told to do another blog. We were supposed to have already done one blog the last time we were in class. The title of the second blog was to be called “Fake Email.” What this blog was supposed to be about was we had to write a fake email to a friend or anyone actually and just complain the whole entire email about a bad grade that we had received in any class on a test or homework grade or even an essay. Just recently Our English 301 teacher Mrs. Crawford had the whole class wrote an essay. The title of the essay was “Email Etiquette Essay.” As you notice that the essay and the email are the same. What I thought was to be different between the two projects was that in the fake email blog we had to write, we were just writing to a friend. In the blog I also did not think it had to be a that proper because of who we were addressing out email to. It is different if your writing something to a friend than if your writing something to a professor. In the Email Etiquette Essay that we had to turn in for a grade, we were writing it to one of our professors. It could be to a made up one or a real one. The actually email paper that we had to turn in had many requirements to it. Some of the requirements was that the paper had to be in MLA Formatting, double spaced, a certain font and size and many others. In the email blog assignment the only requirement was that there had to be 300 words at the minimum. That’s what I believe was to be different between the two assignments assigned to us.

reflecting on todays group work sept. 21, 2009

Today in class we all brought our rough drafts for our Email Etiquette Essay. We got in our original groups that we are usually in, during English class. While we were in our groups we had clearly discussed each and every persons rough draft email essay during the class period. While each person was reading their email assignment the others in the group listened very carefully. When the person who was reading was done reading the paper everyone in the group went around saying what they thought the persons paper needed and why it needed what we had said it did. The people in my group gave some pretty good advice to the other group members in group 3 or as were also called “The All Stars.” After all the people in my group had read their email etiquette essays that they had written it was finally my turn to read. While I was reading I could tell my group members were very in tuned to what I was having to say at the moment. After I had read my whole essay my group was supposed to give me advice on what I need to change and what else I needed to write in order to make m email etiquette essay better than what it was than. My group gave everyone else great and very helpful advice but when it was their turn to give me the advice it didn’t really happen. All my group really ended up telling me was that my essay was good and I did not really need to change anything. That’s the worst kind of advice someone can give you when your asking for their help to write an essay, a project or just an ordinary email. In the end my group was helpful to everyone else so I believe we worked well together that day!

Summerarizing todays articles 9/18/09

In today’s article “Getting Back Into It” a guy named John Connor and his wife were married for thirty three years and counting. After his wife had passed away n 1997 John with three grown children for the first time found himself sad and al alone. One day while John was on his computer while at work an ad popped up. It was a match.com ad. He hesitated at first than clicked on it. He wound up meeting a lady around his age who was divorced and also worked with computers just like john. "The Internet gave me a new way to meet and date at this stage of my life," says Connor, 60, who divides his time between homes in Plano, Texas, and Naples, Fla. "It's making that initial effort--when you find yourself alone after so many years with one person--that's the hardest part of dating." As John said in the article.

Another article that was read today was called “Is eHarmony biased against gays?” When you are making an account on eHarmony it only allows you to choose man seeking woman or woman seeking man. There is no man seeking man or woman seeking woman. Which personally I think is a brilliant idea.

The last article we read today in class was called “The Dating Detectives” The article talks about a boy named Vikas Sharma. A 28-year-old operations manager with an IT company in Mumbai So, like many in India's mushrooming urban middle class, Sharma began dating someone online, using one of the dozens of matchmaking sites that have flourished in recent years. "I met a girl on a matrimonial site, and our relationship reached an advanced stage," he says, by which he means they had been chatting and meeting off and on for several months.

Reflecting on Today's Experience Sept. 16

In Mrs. Crawford’s English Class today we had read the Email Etiquette Assignment paper by doing what is called popcorn reading. What we learned by reading the Email Etiquette Assignment is that the email has to be in MLA formatting . Which in this case means double spacing, white paper, black ink, and Times New Roman and size font of twelve. What I believe that will be hard about this assignment is that when we type up the paper on our computers we are not allowed to use certain words. Some of the words that are not supposed to be typed in this paper are you and your. Usually when I write essay papers I am used to saying what I am going to be writing about in the assignment, but Mrs. Crawford is not allowing us to use the starting of sentences like This email is about, I will tell you, and I believe. One reason of what I think will be an easy task about writing this paper is my English Teacher Mrs. Crawford is not making the amount of the essay to be really long. The essay paper only has to be 2-3 paragraphs with six sentences in each paragraph. Pretty easy. I think writing this assignment will be helpful. One reason I think that this assignment would be helpful is that I know that some time in my four years of college, what ever college I am at I will need to politely write an email or type a paper to a professor or mine asking about or asking to change a specific grade of mine on either a test, quiz, homework, or regular in class assignment. So in the end of writing this paper it will be good practice for me!

Article Reflections on Sept. 11

Al Gore: Should Schools Be
Wired To The Internet?
As TIME wrote last October, "all kids, not just ones from families that can afford a home computer,should grow up with a mouse in their hand." The President and I could not agree more. Access to thebasic tools of the information age is no longer a luxury for our children. It is a necessity the author of “Al Gore: Should Schools BeWired To The Internet?” says. In the article where Al gore and the Author state their opinions I also have my own opinion. Having computers in school really is no longer a luxury for children and students but a necessity because maily most communcations are being used by the computer in many different ways. Yet also teachers now a days are making theireverything from assignments, class work, homework and even having their class disscussions on the computer using the internet, email or some other source. The authors stated facts was that “A 1996 study showed that students with access to the Internet not only presented their final projects in more creative ways but also turned in work that was more complete and had better syntheses of different points of view.”

Where phones in class are ok!
I believe having a class like the one presented in the atricle would be very interesting. A part of the article had said “Auten was one of nine students learning to create iPhone applications, or apps, for a new course at New Jersey Institute of Technology last spring. More than halfway through the seminar, the information technology major dreamed up two apps of his own, developed them with the knowledge gained in class, and sold them on Apple’s online store for $0.99 each.” Not only does this class teach you to be creative with the work you attempt but you can be your own “boss” or in other words an entrepreneur.

Articles

Reading Writing Iphoning
When students come back to school for a new year at Abilene Christian University or Oklahoma Christian University and others they are likely to receive in their package they paid for either an iphone or an iPod touch and at OCU along with those choices they give you a macbook computer. All though if you choose to get the iphone you have to accept the expenses. Every month you have to pay the AT&T phone bill. "It's an eye-catching toy," concedes Kevin Roberts, chief information officer at Abilene Christian. "There's been a lot of interest from students." All though teachers may use it for lectures and email and homework assignments they can also be used for many different things that the school provides. On the itouchs and iPods the school has provided the students with being able to access a lot of different and unique applications. Some examples of a few applications they have provided are an app called the panic button. It allows you to contact the local police and gives them the ability to find where you are located and the locations that you are needing help at. Another app that the schools have made up actually let you take attendance on your iphone by displaying pictures of everyone in that certain class along with four status buttons which are “Tardy, Absent, Here, Excused.”
Tech helps students adopt good study habits
Purdue University professors are using online "signals" to communicate with students that either their grades are dropping or their doing a great job. They do offer study habit suggestions, and provide positive attitudes to students who are passing quizzes and exams. The signals that the students would see when they sign onto their blackboard are signs that of traffic lights. Green means that everything is good, passing and all yellow means you are close to failing and either need to get back on track or come ask for help and red means you are failing and need to get things in order immediately.

Reflecting on Setember 4th blog

I had felt that being in class today was a success! I learned quite a bit of information from coming to todays class that I would not have known how to do if I did not attend. Today in Mrs. Crawfords English class we were in the Technology Lab. We had learned how to open up the syllabus and read it carefully. As well as learning how to open the Tentative Schedule from our pals account. All you need to do is go to files click courses and double click on “Going Places Tentative Schedule.” After that you will find the articles that our group has to read and take notes on for our presentation on wenesday, as well as finding the essay assignments that we would be doing paper work and essays on with in these next few months of being in this class. My group “Group 3” or other known as “The All Stars” the articles that we are reading are called “Technology Helps Students Adopt Good Study Habits” by Dennis Carter, “Clive Thompson on the New Literacy” by Clive Thompson, “Reading Writing, iPhoning” by Elizabeth Woyke, and “Texting: The Gr8 Db8” by Marcus Berkman. The article that my group and I specfically decided for me to read and take notes on is called “Reading, Writing, iphoning” by Elizabeth Woyke. I do believe in my group. The people in my group seem to be pretty hard workers and from what I know and can tell they get their work done on time and turned in when when they are supposed to. Working with the five other students in group 3 should be interesting. Just like a relationship, friendship,or even coworker things will go wrong but if we all work together and work hard I know we can accomplish anything that gets put in our way!

Email blog

Dear Taylor,
Oh my goodness, I am sooo MAD!! Do you know what Mrs. Crawford actually gave me on that exam we took last week that I had told you I studied so hard for? A 50! Can you believe that? I mean come on, a 50? My mom and dad are going to flip. Im going to be in so much trouble! Can you say no phone, no compter, no tv, NO CAR! Augh im going to just die. L This makes me so upset, how can a person study so long and hard for a test and fail it? It just does not make any sense to me at all. I am thinking ill go in early Monday morning before her class and talk to Mrs. Crawford about it, maybe she’ll let me take the test over or even do test corrections. You think? Oh that would just be so wonderful if she really did let me do one of the two and plus that would bring my grade up so much having a failing test grade come up to passing test grade. I wonder if I had studied that wrong paper work and homework because now hat I think of it the test was pretty hard. Or maybe Mrs. Crawford just made the test like that on purpose to see if people studied more than what she had said to..hmm. I wonder what everyone else had got on the test as well. I’ve been thinking I should get together with some of my english class mates and we can form some kind of study group. That would help not only me but the other students in he group as well. I think that would be an amazing idea! Well I have to go now time to study for the next test coming up woohoo!

-Katy