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New Media vs Mass Media

Excerpted from Robert Logan posting on PBS/MediaShift One of my objectives in updating Marshall [McLuhan’s] work is to identify the characteristics of new media and contrast them with the electronic mass media that McLuhan dealt with. Given that the medium…

Engl 1002-7 Student Blogs

Ok! You have now not only registered here, but have set up your own blog.  You are ready to start participating in Web 2.0.  Yay! Maribel Andrade  http://maribel5.wordpress.com Stefanie Arevalo Brittanee Avila  http://bavila3.wordpress.com Grant Berlanga-Hurst  http://gberlangahurst.wordpress.com Amelia Blades   http://ablades.wordpress.com Emily…

Engl 1002-9 Student Blogs

All of you will be setting up your very own blog to use for class.  You are joining the participatory culture that characterizes Web 2.0. Yay! Let me know if I have your name wrong! Valery Anguiano    http://vanguiano.wordpress.com/ Jesus Arriaga   …

Inviting and Embracing Cultural Conflict in Writing and in the Classroom

Once I said “esa,” (the female form) of “ese” (meaning homeboy or homegirl) from around the way way back in the day, during class and a student responded with “what?! you’re a scrap.” I didn’t know it, but I guess to him I was. I was talking like “a scrap.” And come to think of it, I did useta kick it, for a quick minute, with some vatos locos back in the day. Instead of inviting language diversity (my own) into the classroom, I alienated him because “esa” and “ese” are forbidden adversarial terms in his cultural language community.

Vico’s and Melina’s Humanist Side

I’ve grown since that uncomfortable first experience with multiple intelligences. I understand that learning and teaching is a balance between abstract truth and common sense. And at the same time life is balance between chance and choice. Vico, very early, scrutinizes that “those whose only concern is abstract truth experience great difficulty in achieving their means, and greater difficulty in attaining their ends.”