Mike Wesch "An Anthropological Introduction to You Tube"

Today I watched a video by Mike Wesch “ An Anthropological Introduction to You Tube”. It was a very interesting video on how you tube became of the popular website. Mike Wesch had said in the video that you tube produced more viewers in 6 months then more then 3 networks in 60 years. You tube is on 9232 hours/day, more then 385 always on channels, over 200,000 videos are music videos and over 88% is new. You tube became so popular because it spread from person to person just like myspace, everyone was using it or uploading videos on you tube. Before you tube it was also very difficult to upload videos on to the internet. Mike Wesch produced a video on to you tube about texting and how people should rethink it because it brings people together like a community, and how people should rethink a lot of things and themselves. He uploaded that video a few days before the super bowl and it became number 1 by the super bowl and stayed in the number one spot beating a lot of super bowl commercials that was made with millions of dollars and Mr.Wesch produced it and uploaded it himself. Mike Wesch is an anthropologist professor and he has students that participate on what they study so they upload videos to you tube as well. A rapper was also made famous by the you tube craze because he made a song on his computer and made a dance to it and it turned into an internet and dance craze, it was the soulja boy dance. He had people from kids to teachers to professors and to any other kind of person you can think of doing the soulja boy dance, and when the video came out it had a bunch of people on you tube re creating the dance that he made.

BLOG 10! Reflect the Difference between Blog 3 and Etiquette Essay

The difference between Blog 3’s email and my etiquette essay is now with my etiquette essay I understand how to write a professional letter to my teacher. In Blog 3 I was writing to a friend about my bad grade so there was a total difference in the vocabulary and emotion. Another difference is in my Blog 3’s email to my friend I was of course rambling on how could the teacher be so unfair and that I was going to get in trouble with my mom and that the teacher would pick favorites, if I were to write an email like that to a professor they probably wouldn’t even want to read it. That was a very good tip that my teacher, Mrs.Crawford told me, that using emotion as reasons instead of facts isn’t going to convince anyone that you’re trying to talk to, it will most likely make them want to quit reading it. In my etiquette essay I was able to make my email longer by giving more details on to why I got the poor grade and what I can do to try and change it or to make it better, or at least and attempt that I am trying to get help in the topic that made me get that bad grade. As in Blog 3 I just stated all that I did to try and get that good grade but it didn’t work but I did not state anything that I can do to change the outcome. And in my etiquette essay I was being more positive on the outcome and stating that I am trying, and it would be a better outcome if given another chance to either re-take my final exam or if I could get a passing grade because of my effort.

Reflecting on our workshop experience

Today we did a group workshop to help us with our etiquette assignment. By us reading our essay to our group helped u understand what more details we need in our assignment or details or sentences that can make it better and more longer just by adding them. It was nice to read other people’s emails to see what they have written and to listen to see if there is any advice that they would give you on making your email better. While doing this it helps you get a better view on the assignment by listening to other people’s responses and the way they would ask for a grade change compared to the way you would ask. So I think that this assignment was a way for us to be prepared for the future in case this situation seems to happen.This assignment can even help us on being able to just write an email properly without the slang and other grammar that we may use and might not be correct. So I honestly think this assignment has helped me a lot in many ways. We also had to go to the Writing Center as well so we can get an extra perspective on our essay. By me going to the Writing Center I was able to get help on parts of my essay that needed changing or re-wording to make it sound better. And I liked this part because when they helped me with these problems they didn’t make me re-word the words to where it didn’t sound like me, so I felt comfortable with a paper that sounds like it actually came from my thoughts. That is the main idea of this essay is to write to your teacher on changing your grade on a failing test but the main point is of course to make it sound real and as if it is literally coming from you, so now with this assignment assigned I am prepared for whatever email that might need to be written in the future.

Summarizing today's articles..."Is eHarmony Biased Against Gays?"

Today in class Team #2 presented articles based on the subject, internet dating. The first article that was presented was “Is eHarmony Biased Against Gays?” by John Cloud. This was a really interesting article to me because it is written by a gay man and he was personally looking for love but he felt he wasn’t welcomed by eHarmony. It wasn’t just because he wasn’t interested, it was because on the main page it only gives you two options; “Men seeking Woman” and “Woman seeking Man”. So obviously he didn’t even fit in this category because it was “Men seeking Man”. He believes that this is because the founder of eHarmony is a conservative Christian. But The founder, Neil Clark Warren stated that it they have founded over 5,000 married couples and since in some states gay marriage is illegal. But what Mr. Warren had said next seemed like he was just sugar coating that previous sentence, because on his next sentence stated that gays are such exotic people and that he never understood them and since their relationships are illegal its best if you ignore them completely. This article has caught my attention more then the other articles because I believe that any one, same sex or not can fall in love with someone beyond their control. So if a man seems to love men and a woman seems to love women then you should just let it be. We are no one to judge anyone else’s life or judgments. And I believe that since Mr.Warren is Christian that it still doesn’t make that right to what he said. He should understand that only God can judge anyone’s life and he should just let it be, because those decisions are those peoples decisions and their going to live with their choices not Mr.Warren.

Reflectiong on today's experience...

Today in class we were talking about our email etiquette assignment that our class is having to do. It is a major grade so were going over on how to do our assignment. The topic of our email is about having to write our professor because of a bad grade and to see if he or she can change it. We also discussed the format on how we had to type it as well. Luckily Mrs.Crawford gave us a paper on the details on helping us write our email. That is what really helped me out a lot. It was fun in class because the way our teacher showed us how to write an email was by her pretending to write an email to a girl that was caught cheating with her boyfriend. It really was funny but serious as well because it did help me on what to write and in which paragraph and not to write just your emotions down because no one will want to read an email or a note with someone just rambling about how much their hurt or what they’ve been through. We also had to go over the things that are required in our email for it to even be turned in. The simple but important things we have to for our email assignment is to make sure we use MLA formatting such as using double spacing, white paper, black ink, and Times Roman Numeral (12pt). Without these done to our assignment it will not be accepted. We also are required to go to the Writing Center at our school so they can go over our paper and see if there is any changes that need to be made. It will also help us get someone else’s perspective on our email, to see what they think of it.

summerize two articless...

“Al Gore Should Schools be Wired to the Internet” written by VP Al Gore is bout how every child in school should be able to use a computer whether wealthy or poor, because not a luxury any more it is more like a necessity. Because now and days a lot of more jobs and things require technology, Since the year 2000 60% of all jobs will require technology skills. That is why n this article it says that people should learn how to use a computer before hand while they are young. The Education Department reports that students with computer classes outperform their peers on an average of 30%. The E-Rate program gives great discounts to schools and libraries, with the highest discounts to the neediest communities. They made this program to make computers and technology to let everyone any race or income can have a equal chance to learn and succeed, so we can all be prepared for the future. “New iPod Rules Touch off heated debate” a new policy from the University of Missouri require new students to carry an iPhone, iPod Touch. This situation is happening a lot around the united states, where colleges or schools want the students to carry these devices so they can interact with them and the academics together. Even though the schools do not benefit financially from these Apple devices, they do get 10% discount on Apple devices; dell and other brands offer the same deal as well. Teachers state that this will help also save classroom time by having the students listen to lectures or watch educational videos while walking to gym or somewhere else rather than wasting time on doing it in the classroom. It also states that just the cost of an iPhone is just about as equal as buying textbooks needed for class, but they can get an iPhone instead and read the chapter off of that.

summarizes two aricless;

“Texting: the gr8 db8” by Marcus Berkman, this is a great article that is about the typical debate on some people thinking that texting is going to keep people from writing sentances and words the way they were meant to be, the proper way. But now and days there is plenty of people who do know the proper way of writing a sentence or the proper way on spelling a word ,but they still shorthand a sentence or word when they text it. But shorthand writing has been around since years ago and there wasn’t a problem then. Business men and women or people with the best of knowledge text and spell things the way they want to when texting. As said in this article people mainly hear only one side of the story and that usually is just the negative, that’s why I personally dissagree on the bad things people have to say about texting. “Reading,Writing, iPhoning” by Elizabeth Woyke, this atricle is about students being given apple products such as the iPhone and seeing how they benefit rom it. One school is actually promoting it as a mobile learning initiative. They say that these devices will give quick access to important information like local maps and acadeic calenders. Students will also have to pay for their iphone to AT&T every month and students who leave before the term is over have to pay. Even though theres the idea of that maybestudents will not learn with this device as a distraction or maybe they won’t be listening to their teachers. Their positive outlook is more better then the negatives. They also made plently of applications to fit for the class like word clouds,student pilots are going to be given these iphones to pin point places while in air, and they are also trying to devlop a panic button on the iphones so it can have the exact location on the person.

Reflecting on todays discussion...

Today in class we went over a lot of things that we are going to be doing this semester. We got a sylabus on what our assignments are going to be on and what is also required for the next class day. We have been doing a lot of blogs about different writing scenarios, which will be able to help us adapt to different writing techniques. By doing these blogs as well will help us be able to write an essay b how many words the teacher has gaven us. We will also be doing group activities that will help us learn how to interact well with others and to be able to do different parts to get the whole assignment done. By doing that will make us do a better job In what we do because it will have an effect on the whole team. College is more different from high school because we have to keep track of everything by ourselves, which will help us develop more responsibilities if we haven’t already. It makes us become more responsible because we hav to keep track of whats due without anyone telling us and we get to keep track of our grades by going to our pals account to keep us up to date on that as well. Most of our assignments are going to be from the computer or we will have articles or videos to look at so we can base our homework on that. We will also be making a myspace and a facebook page and write an compare and contrast essay on these two popular websites. I think it’s a great idea that we have to keep a hands on development on this course because were going to learn so much just by us having to keep track of things and by us doing research on things that people actually use and we can now have the background from it.

my letter to my friend...

Oh no celeste! Guess what? My science teacher Mr.Smiley gave me a C on my science fair project! I can't believe he can be so unfair. Some people didn't even come to school today because they knew it was the day to turn in our projects. So at least I tried to make my project cool like all the others ones, I also tried to decorate it more to make it more colorful and alive so it can leave an impression on him but NO! I even glued little popcorns on there! Why? Because my science fair project was seeing which popcorn brand had the least kernels after making it. I honestly don't know what I was thinking to even think that it would be cool to do a project on that. Huh? Well i guess I did, but I just like to get what I pay for. But no Mr.Smiley didn't look so smiley after I presented my project. I don't know why he is so unfair! This always happends to me! I knew I wasn't one of his favorites from he beginning of the year. He only gave good grades to the students that did projects on topics that you can predict someone doing, but I like to think out of the box and associate it to real life. And I thought that he would at least grade me on my attempt and effort to make a good grade, But NO I still can't believe this, and if you think that I am upset pshh wait until you see the way my mom is going to react. She is going to be mad knowing that I could've gotten a better grade. Now my A and B honor roll certificate is going to be taken away over a selfish decision my teacher made. Well I’ll talk to you later once I’m done being ungrounded.