Blog #17

Well being off for a week it's hard getting back into the swing of blogs. I'm sitting here wondering were to start. Well here goes. We had to read articles so the two articles I picked were, My space v. face book competing addictions and colleges scans. These articles were the most interesting out of the bunch. And since our comparsion and contrast essay is about face book and my space I figured I would read more on each website.

My space and face book has become addictions in today's society. The article compares the two websites to a drug addictions. Network junkies, count the minutes til there next profile fixing. Which I thought that was hilarious, because I really feel that way when I'm on face book, I try to log off but for some reason I just can't log off. According to Hit wise as of last week my space domain is one of the most visited amongst U.S. Internet users. Meanwhile , Face book has been increasing steadily, taking the position of the ninth most popular domain.

Colleges scan facebook during admission, was the next article that I was interested in. colleges admission officers are viewing students online facebook pages before final acceptances in college.That means a face book picture from a weekend party can cost a student a spot on a premier campus. Mark D. Weinstein stated "I believe most colleges will do whatever it takes to recruit the right type of students to their respective institution.

Well I exactly made it through this blog, I don't think that week break from writing was a good idea for me. But I talked about some interesting statics about face book, and myspace. I also talked a little about how colleges scan facebook for students that they see fit for admission. I talked more about myspace and facebook, it was a little more exciting than college scans.

Pandora And LastFM

Today's lesson was very entertaining we discovered something new, Pandora and LastFm.
these are Internet radio stations. It was a great day in class, after working hard on an essay and getting it in on time. It felt good to go to the computer lab and listen to some music surf around on it, and just took a break today. But I'm sure its a motivate or five page essay behind this relaxed day, just to good to be true.

Pandora you have to sign in and join, which its free. After logging on you can type in a song or an artist of a song and it will give you a play list of that artist songs and similar artist with the same type of music style. You can skip through it, but it only allows you to skip through so many an hour or create a new play list. It also allows you to judge the songs, if they are played to much, and other options.

Between the two, I think I like Pandora. Lastfm I had a hard time just logging on, when signing up with Lastfm you have to use your e-mail address, then go into your e-mail to confirm your membership, Pandora you choose a user name and password and your in. Lastfm shows the videos of most of there songs. I tried to log on to the videos and they kept cutting out. LastFm is a busy site and I am a simple person, I just want to get to the point, and Pandora is very simple and to the point.

Its good to have discovered these website, especially for a college student. You can plug your head phones into your computer and listen to music while you write your paper or just listen while on the Internet. Both websites are pretty cool to play around with and get the fill on which one fits your computer experience. But my opinion if you like a busy website go for lastFM. But if your a get to the point type of person go for Pandora. Both websites are fun to play around with in your spare time. But college students don't have a lot of spare time.

Reflecting On my Writing center Experience

Today's blog is about our writing experience at the writing center, On our assignment Descriptive essay. Going to the writing lab helps me out a lot it gives me that extra boost I need to get my essay started. Its really hard to get an essay started if your not use to writing. And having someone sit with you one on one really helps you out.

In my tutoring session we sat at the computer, and she read my paper out loud. We worked one paragraph at a time, after reading paragraph one, she told me I needed to focus on the person that I am talking about, I need to use him,he or she, more, or the persons name so the reader will know who you are talking about. But she told me the description of the character is good she can picture the comedian.

Well, I am not going to sit here and go paragraph to paragraph, this essay has six paragraphs and if I go through every paragraph my blog will be as long as my essay. Basically through out my essay she told me the same thing, I describe the scenes well, I need to let the reader know who I am talking about. She help me a little on my grammar, and I know I suck at it. I have a lot of quotes in my essay so she help me with, when I can use quotation marks. The thing that I like about the tutoring sessions is that they tell you the truth about your paper, and let you know if your on the right path, and if your not, they help you get their, They give you ideas to get you going in the right direction.

I would not have done anything different with my sessions. The two tutors help me out and gave me good feedback on things I need to work on. She also told me I needed at a little more to my ending and give my opinion on the video which was good advice, because I did not know how to end my essay. Overall I was really impress with her feedback, now I will see if I listen to her feedback correctly in my final grade.

Reflecting On today's assignment 10/05/09

Today we went to the computer lap and today's assignment was to post a one hundred word comment on another classmate blog. I commented and Adam and Etauj blogs. There blogs were totally different in length and conversation, you can see the two different attitudes in each of their blogs. Etuaj was upset about his grade and wanted to go off on the instructor about his grade he received. And Adam was talking about his vlog and not knowing what a vlog was. He gave a few details about what his descriptive essay was going to be about. It was good reading different blogs everyone had something different to say.

I also had a few comments on my blogs. I received good feedback and some opinions to improve my blogs in the future which was good. I even had one post where she said, she was glad she read my blog it will help here start here descriptive essay paper, she didn't know where to start it. That was good, I was able to help someone out. Blogs can be hard; I don't know if it’s the blog are the length requirement of the blog that makes it complicated. But having feedback and reading other people blogs helped me out on making the blogs longer.

Reflection On Today's Descriptive Essay 10/02/09

Today's class discussion really helps out a lot on my descriptive narrative essay. I was just in lost of word on how to start the essay thank god I didn't miss class today. So tonight I am going to sit down and start writing things down. I might change my vlog video also to something with a little more action in it; I need more activity, after listening to today's instructions.

We created a timeline in class and that was the best idea for this assignment. You really need a time line to help you put your paper together. In the time line you have your beginning, middle and end. In the beginning, you should start your paper with the time and date, then introducing the people in your video, what you see, and what’s going on. You should use your five senses, touch, hear, smell, feel, and taste. And if you use these methods you should have no problems starting your essay.

The middle of your paper should be paragraphs, two, three, and four, so I figure I will take one minute out of my six minute vlog and write a paragraph for each minute, to have five complete paragraphs. In the middle part of your essay just discuss what’s going on, and repeat your five sense in each paragraph, tell the persons emotions, the back ground noises what you see in their back ground to ensure you have five full sentences. Be detailed about the vlog and you will create a successful essay with no problems. Your ending you should take the last minute of your vlog and capture everything that person is saying and summarizes what you have already talked about. Again your five senses are very important in the conclusions also.

We broke into a group of two and took the timeline method and started brain storming our vlogs which helped out a lot getting an opinion from another person on how to go about writing your vlog. And with the person you are paired with you discuss your vlog and what it was about and write it down from beginning to end. So now that you have a timeline you can use that as a guide throughout your essay.

Vlog

Well after missing class on Wednesday I finally got around to viewing my vlog's thanks to my team members for passing down the information. We have another essay coming up, again. Wow. This essay is a descriptive narrative easy of a vlog, and my opinion, it is going to be a lot more complex than the first essay, and I struggled with that one. So I am going to just pray and start writing.


A vlog is a audio version of a blog. It's another form of communication is today's world. People use vlog to express them self, are just acting crazy, I don't think I could do a vlog, I would be so nervous to post myself online and have no control over who watches it. I never heard of a vlog until this assignment. Our essay is to pick a vlog and write a descriptive narrative about the vlog. So I was looking through the vlogs trying to determine what blog to choose to make this assignment as easy as possible, and honestly I don't think its an easy way to go on this. So I told myself the next vlog I clicked on I was going to use it for my essay, and here is the link to that last click. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKI38Mi2jlg

When I clicked on the link the first thing I notice was how long it was. The video is six minutes long so that should give me enough to write about, plus it has a few more vlogs attached to it. The vlog is on Brent Butt, that last name said it all. He is a comedian on television show, and his network suggested that he start a vlog to reach out to his fans. He's wierd so he might just give me something to talk about. I'm not going to go into to much details about him I will save that for the essay seeing that its going to be five or more paragraphs long.

I think I might have lucked up, and found a good vlog to write about, but it always seems to be going well until I go see the tutor and find out I'm going in the wrong direction with it. tomorrow in class I will get a better understanding of the essay and decide if I want to stick with this vlog I picked, or choose another one. But for now here is where my essay stands.