Computer Lab Reflection Oct. 12, 2009

On Monday October 12, 2009 In English class we had went to the computer lab. During our hour of time in the computer lab we had looked at a few music or radio sites, what ever you want to call them. The first site the teacher had told the class to type in was called Pandora. I have heard of Pandora before. Only once do I recall actually being on the Pandora site. Well it was not really the actual site of Pandora, my boyfriend was showing it to me on his phone. He thought that Pandora app was really cool. When our English teacher Mrs. Crawford had told us we were going to be looking up a music site called Pandora I got kind of excited because I had already known what the site was. I think Pandora is a really cool site not only because you can play all the music that you want but because you can pick any music from different genres to different artists to any song that you want. The other site that our teacher had told us to type in was called lastfm.com. It as well as Pandora is a music site. I like this one better. Lastfm I thought was easier to work with and it showed videos too. That was a plus. If I had to start using one and had to choose between which one I wanted to use I would definitely choose Lastfm. The last few minutes of class Mrs. Crawford had to hurry and rush to show us this map thing on Google. Again I have already seen Google map before. My boyfriend Taylor as well as showing me the Pandora app he has showed me the Google map app. The Google map app comes in handy in different ways. One of the ways it can come in handy is that if you are looking for a specific house you can type in the address and it will show you exactly where to find it. Also if you for some reason need to know what a certain house looks like and you have the address, you can type it into Google map and it will pull it up right away for you.

blog #15 Wrting Center Experience

On the day of October 6, 2009 I had an appointment in the Writing Center at 10:45 with a girl named Jen. I have never had Jen as my writing center tutor so I was very anxious on how she was different form my last writing center tutor. When Jen and I had first sat down she had me pull up my video blog on YouTube. The name of my video blog at the time was Fred Brito: The Great Pretender. We has watched the video blog minute by minute. The way that I seemed to think Jen is different from my last Writing Center tutor was she was very actually helpful on completing her task of helping me. I believe that is a good thing when you have a great tutor. Not only because you get stuff done but you learn a lot from the person that maybe you did not have already known or just something they had taught you over again. Jen helped me actually separate my essay into different sections and different paragraphs. In those sections she helped me figure out what was going to be in them and what I really should not put. What also helped a lot with Jen being my Writing Center tutor was that when I would write little notes and stuff on my paper she would read it over me and tell me if it was important enough to say and where to put it. I think this was my best tutor conference I have had so far. Even though I have only had two. One thing I wish would have gone different was that I wanted to have a little more time because I had a few more questions that I would have liked to ask her but did not. I believe next time I sign up for a Writing Center tutor I will try and get Jen as my tutor because she was great. Another thing that I will try to do is when I am signing in for an appointment or scheduling and appointment with the Writing Center I could possibly try to schedule two appointments in a row if that is at all possible. If I am not able to do that than I will just need to get in the Writing Center as soon as possible the very first time my teacher tells us and schedule two appointments at different times and different dates to have double tutoring sessions before the dead line of the essay is due.

Vlog Reflection

The Authors name of my vlog I will be writing the essay on is KoolJeffery. Well that is his online name anyway. The site to get to the vlog I am talking about is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCl9LxS56ZA&feature=channel. The blog starts out pretty funny at first. KoolJeffery is wearing these really old and big framed glasses from like he twenties and is also wearing earmuffs. While wearing both of these items he is impersonating a boy with a Russian ascent. After about the first forty five seconds KoolJeffery takes off the really old and huge glasses and earmuffs and starts to tell a story of a guy named Fred Brito. Fred Brito in his younger days had a stuttering problem. His mom took time to the doctor and the doctor had told Fred “The only way to get rid of the stuttering was to take on different characters and act as voices of other people. Fred liked who he was when he was acting not himself. In the 70’s Fred was having tough times from being homeless to going to jail for sleeping in his car. After jail Fred had been thinking positive. He went to the library to do research. Fred found ways to make fictitious resumes. He had made several fake resumes and got many jobs off of the fake resumes. He became someone other than himself. After many year of being someone who was not himself, he decided to turn his life around. In the end Fred was turning his life around. All the thousands and thousands of dollars he was making from all the jobs he had, he was giving it all back to the poor and needy. This one family especially. Fred was helping this family out on a daily basis from paying their water, food bill, electric, to the rent. Fred became someone good!

Reflection on Oct. 5

In todays class we were in the computer lab. The assignment for today that Mrs. Crawford had assigned was to look at any body elses blogs in the class that they had posted and to comment on two peoples blogs. It did not matter whose blogs you commented you jsut needed to write two comments on two different blogs to recieve a grade for the day. On one of my blogs a friend in the class commented about it. The comment really helped a lot because she had said that I was writting the blog as if I was writting an essay. That really inspired me to really think when I do my blogs for now on because now that I know they can be that good as to it would look like I was writting an essay than why not try my best. Well I try my best on everything anyways but this just helped me a little more do work my hardest. Now when I write not only my blogs for english but when I write just normal papers and even journal entrys for class if thats assigned I know that I will open heartedly Think and know that I can do my best on anything and everything I put my heart to!

oct. 2 reflection blog

Today in class Mrs. Crawford walked in, took roll and briefly explained what the assignment that was going to be during the time that we were in the class. The assignment for the day was that we had to make a time line describing what our vlog was about. In the time line we had to write five basic points. The first major point would be the beginning. In the very beginning it should include the title, who, what, when, and where. The third major point would be the middle and the last major point would be the end. In all these majors points. They all had to include different types of senses. Some of the main senses that Mrs. Crawford told us we had to have in those three major points were smell, see, tough, taste, sound and background. Not all of those senses have to be used in every major point but most all do. The beginning needs to have what the vlog looks like, what is going on and what you can hear and maybe taste. The middle and end need to have all of those same things if possible. Mrs. Crawford had said to get a partner, just one. After we had figured out who our partner would be, we had to get out a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. The next part of the assignment was that we had to sit with our partner and we would choose who would go first in the activity we were assigned to do that day. After we chose who would go first and who would go second ,the first person would tell his or her partner what their vlog was about. After they had told each other what their blogs were about they went over each persons time line and figured out what their major points would be in the vlog hey had chose for the descriptive essay. After each person or partner was done and their partner was done helping them with their time line they were done for the day.

Anthropological Introduction blog

In today’s experience on watching the you tube video called “ An Anthropological Introduction to You Tube” by Mie Wesch I had learned a lot of new information that I had not known before this video. While watching the video Mike Wesch would talk about many different thing like how you tube got started, how people view hundreds and hundreds of videos every hour of the day, and how you tube had progressed massively over the many years since it started up. In one of the many scenes in the Anthropological Introduction to You Tube video there was a music video of the song numa numa. As the video was getting more and more views as the days went by people started to reenact the numa numa video and film it them selves. Now there are hundreds of reenactments of many different types of videos, and its all because of You Tube. There are two other scenes in the Anthropological introduction to You Tube that really made the videos become popular. One of those scenes is the soulja boy video. If this kid had never posted a video of this dance on the internet much less on You Tube he probably would have never became famous. As people started catching on and the word spread about this young artist and his talent he became popular and was on the radio everywhere. The last scene from the video we had watched in class was a what is known as the “Charlie bit my finger” video. In this video its two little what believe to be are English kids. The older boy looks to be about the age of 3 and the youngest boy looks to be about the age of one. They were sitting on a chair together and the oldest boy kept putting his finger in his younger brothers mouth, then finally “Charlie” the one year old bit down hard and the older boy screams “Ouch ouch OOOOOuch Charlie bit my finger, and that really hurt!” People made the video famous, no it is all over the world. I thought this Anthropological introduction video was interesting. It really showed me how things can get around on the internet so fast and how people interact with certain things.