Pandora/LastFM

Today we were in the computer lab and we had an assignment checking out the different music websites that we can use on a daily bases. We went to Pandora.com which is a music site. We also went to a website called LastFM.com. We went to both of these music sites to see if we preferred one or the other better or if they were both similar in different ways. So what I thought of first when I was on the website Pandora.com, I noticed that I could not look up one song that I wanted, I had to just type n the artist name and see if any of the songs that popped up were any of those that I was looking for in the beginning. Also on Pandora.com They give you like a station with songs that are grouped to the artist that you were looking for, like the site will get all the songs that kind of categorize in the same group that you were looking for with the same artist or genre. Pandora.com also has a limit of songs they layout in front of you on the screen but if you do not want to hear the song you either press fast forward or click the thumbs down button which will never play the song again. But also on Pandora.com, once you fast forward a song and try to go to the next and the next, they will only let you only a certain amount of times and once you use all those times you will have to let the song play that is on. LastFM.com I think is better personally for me because you can look up the exact song that you want and they will give you the list of songs that match that title or songs with similar titles. And also with LastFM.com it is not like Pandora.com where you can only fast forward so many times or you have to pick out what song you like out of the songs they gave you. But other than the differences these two websites have they are a lot alike.

Reflecting on your writing center experience

Today I went to the writing center to get help on my descriptive essay paper. Going to the writing center has helped me out a lot in the past on my etiquette essay, so I knew that the writing center would help me out a lot too on this essay. I went to the writing center with my descriptive essay rough draft to see what I needed to add to the paper or take away from the paper to make it my best. The teacher in the writing center read over my paper and asked me what I felt I needed help on, and I told her that I needed to make my essay longer and with more sensory details. So we reviewed my descriptive essay and went over on where I can add more details and feelings so that the readers can get more of an idea of what I saw as a viewer of the video vlog instead of me just telling about like in a summary. By also adding more details and feeling I can make my paper into enough paragraphs as well, because my video vlog was only about 4 minutes long and the average video vlog was about 6 I needed to make sure I had enough of these details to make it the 5 or 6 paragraphs as needed fer each minute of the vlog. The teacher in the writing center also helped me change all the words that were past tense into present tense because I had to talk about this vlog as it was happening right now instead of me stating everything the girl had said in the vlog as past tense. I also got help by the teacher writing because she was writing on a scratch sheet of paper what went where in my essay and categorizing the main topics so I can divide them into the paragraphs that were required for this descriptive essay. I don’t think I would change this writing experience because it did help me a lot and gave me the re-assurance that I needed to feel confident about this essay.

Reflecting on todays experience; commenting blogs

Today we went to the computer lab and today’s assignment was to comment our classmates and other people on their blogs. I think that this was a good assignment because you get to see what other people thought of your blog and they could maybe give you tips on what you need to improve to make your blog better. I checked my blogs comments to see what my classmates put and I got a comment on one of my blogs about my descriptive essay and it was nice to see that someone knew which video vlog I was talking about in my blog, so by that I felt like even though it was just jotting down a bit about that video vlog, I knew that someone that had seen that vlog was re-picturing the vlog again in her head because I was writing about it. I also felt good about myself knowing that I was doing a good job on my blogs, keeping up with the blogs that were due and keeping up with the expectations on how many words there supposed to be and what exactly they need to be about and put that all together to write my blogs.

Reflecting on todays experience

Today in class we made a time line for our Descriptive essay. Our descriptive essay is going to be about a video vlog that we picked on you tube and we need to describe everything we saw in the video to write the descriptive essay so we can This helped me layout the descriptive details needed for the descriptive essay. At the beginning of the time line we wrote minute one for the beginning of the video vlog and a part in the middle of the time line that said 3 mins, because the average times of the video vlogs are about 6 minutes. And then at the end of the time line we wrote 6 minutes or the end time of the video vlog. This timeline helped me with all the details and little information that was said in the video and at what time or sequence the action was done in. What also helped me was when I was watching the video I had a scratch sheet of paper that I tried to write down every detail and action that I saw at what time of the video and what happened. So by doing that I knew what was said at what time and what action was done at what time as well. So all I had to do was just review the video vlog several of times to see if there was any action, movement or anything said that I missed in the other times of me watching the video vlog. But I think that without the time line I would of maybe sequenced things the wrong way or would not have put the actions or things said in the correct order because the time line helped me see the video vlog for every minute of it. So I think that did help me out a lot and I don’t know if I would have thought of that workshop help on my own. So this was a great way for me to feel more confident about my descriptive essay and knowing that I put things in the right order.

videO vlOg description...

“The 1st Vlog”. This videos introduction starts off by a girl named Holly, she is sitting on a chair in front of her computer the whole time while she is able to do this vlog. Holly looks light skinned and has dark hair that is pulled back into a pony tail, she is wearing a white t-shirt with black words and sayings on it. After she introduced herself she explained that she didn’t know how to start off or what to talk about on her first vlog so she decided to talk about herself. Holly is 18 years old and she goes to high school half a day, she is a graduate but she goes for the labs. After school she usually goes to work or goes home and sits and plays video games. A lot of her friends went off to college but she decided that she was going to take some time off and save money and to make sure she new what she wanted to do. Holly also said that it was pretty scary thinking about leaving home and maybe that could be one of the reasons why she also stayed. Holly has two cats named smokey and squeaky, then she picks up smokey from the floor to show to the camera so you could see him, he was black and fluffy, she said he’s about 9 now and before she put him down she gave him a kiss. After that she also wanted to show her other cat named squeaky. She gets his attention by making a noise with her mouth so he could come to her then she bent down from the chair and picked him up. Squeaky is a white cat with black on the sides of him and with a black spot on and around his nose. Holly says that he is a runt because he was the smallest out of the litter, even though he is a runt he likes to scratch and make a lot of noise.. In this vlog there is a jazz or classical type of background music. Holly says that her vlogs are going to be just her rambling about things she sees on tv or what she likes or doesn’t like. She doesn’t have any viewers yet, but she is trying to make her vlogs more interesting rather then sitting in front of the computer with no one in the room but her cats, she plans to do more then just vlogs shes hoping to do other stuff like music videos. Holly closes her vlog by ending it with thanks for watching and shes planning to post up more vlogs in the next few weeks so to look out for them.












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