For my scouting report, I looked at one of the past Xbox Live interviews on file from March–a girl (a college student in Illinois) uses Live to tutor students from the local high school in math. While English is definitely…
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Intimacy in New Media
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
This week I wrote about how relationships are shaped by the New Media. As shown by the YouTube videos about Facebook, technology has had a powerful effect on the way we view intimacy and relationships. I believe that this technology…
Making Friends in New Media
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
In “Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media,” the authors writing the paper explored the “ways in which youth may be redefining identity, privacy, ownership, credibility, & participation as they engage with the new digital media” (James, et. al).…
With Great Power, Comes Great (Ir)Responsibility
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
In Selber’s “Reimagining Computer Literacy,” he makes some very good points about computer literacy as it currently stands and what it could be in the future. One thing I noticed in both Selber and then in Rheingold’s interview “Shifts of…
JZ: The Future of Internet…Part II
by Jeong Kinser • • 0 Comments
Zittrain drew some risks that Internet face in Part II. For one, there the rise of Internet appliances: mobile phones, Kindles, and X-boxes. These gadgets can provide non-risk environment and they are costly to restrict programmers’ ability to be more…
where is the class?
by lminnis209 • • 14 Comments
I came to class late and I cannot find u guys? please tell me???
Please sir, may I have more Simpsons?
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
In my blog this week, I took issue with Hobb’s “The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement,” specifically her third issue– “Should media literacy have a pop culture bias?” I felt that Hobbs was really oversimplifying the two…
5010 W2 Reflection:Promising Future of Writing
by Jeong Kinser • • 0 Comments
Marc Bousquet’s article, The Figure of Writing and the Future of English Studies hit the nail on my head. One example I really like from this article was his comparison and analysis between literature and writing in historical practices, and…
Class Blog Post 1
by lminnis209 • • 0 Comments
Two of the articles I liked one I found extremely offensive! Maybe I am too embroiled within the subject, since I have taught and believe in technology integration. I thought Neil Postman had some good points but most of his…
Research Paper–Language Diversity in the Classroom
by lmarik • • 0 Comments
Language Diversity in the Classroom A pervasive, collective memory in our culture is that of the “Melting Pot” as a force to amalgamate all immigrants coming to United States shores into the ideal “American.” Unfortunately, along with the rather…