Blog #6

I have listened to many podcasts before but I have never created one. Most of the information I read in these articles was familiar. I think I would enjoy making a podcast for a class assignment or something but it is not something I would do for fun. I enjoy making movies and music much more than podcasting. But I have never tried it and look forward to doing it someday. I think podcasting could be useful at FLC like they said in the article for "information areas that are difficult to express text". I think for some assignments podcasts would be very useful on campus.

Blog #5

It is hard for me to imagine what this piece would look like as a radio show because I have never done anything with radio and I don't listen to it either. But I would imgagine it could not be this long? If that's right, then you would have to take out any inofmation that is not necessary to keep the story going. However, I would keep everything about the story the same. I loved the story and I think a lot of people would listen to this if it was a radio show. I think it might be easier to change the characters names into names that are more simple so it's easier to follow. This story might also be a little too discriptive to have read on the radio. Some viewers might be easily confused or lost when hearing so much information at once. I would make it a little bit more funny to keep the viewers interested. I did not like the ending of this story, I wanted it all to work out and everyone to be happy!

Blog 4

I thought this piece was interesting because it showed the differences and uniqueness of how students write. I enjoyed reading about their explanation of "patchwriting". Their explanation was "a practice that involves individuals stringing together multiple authorial voices and sources then adding their own voices to the conversation". I think their definition is correct and I also think students do use this form of writing. Something new I learned was that collaborative writing is rare. I never thought of it much, or tried it, but I definitely sounds hard. This piece helped me understand how wiki's are made and how they are put together by all the people who add to it. I liked when they talked about how any social space must follow two guidelines. Those helped me understand wiki's more also. I could relate when they said "we do explore the ways wiki can encourage students to move beyond traditional notions of ownership and academic writing into more collaborative public discursive practices. I do think this piece was probably hard for these authors to collaboratly write together because everyone has a different opion of things and I think thats the hardest part about writing things together. However, they did a good job and it came together well.

Blog #3

Before reading the Martin and Dusenberry piece on wiki's, the only thing I knew about them was how you could edit them anytime you wanted, and write whatever you wanted. I never thought of it being used in the classroom the way Martin and Dusenberry did. Everything else I learned in this article was new to me. One thing that surprised me was that "Wiki is Hawaiian for "quick" or "informal"". I was glad to see that wiki's are monitored so any inappropriate or hurtful information will not be posted. That makes me feel better but it still bothers me how misleading or incorrect information can be posted. Eventhough you can edit the incorrect information, it still may not be good enough if someone comes along and reads it expecting all the information to be correct. The entire article helped me understand wiki's better and I'm glad I had the chance to read it before we start our wiki project in this class. I think building a wiki can be a productive addition to the classroom and some of its advantages are "creating an equality of authorship and collaboration" as well as "inspiring people to be creative and create a community". The more I read about blogs and wiki's, the more I begin to think they are all the same as facebook. They all create a community that is appealing to each and every person. I see how interactive people are in their blogs and wiki's, and I see similarites in how I was with myspace and facebook. I loved myspace because it was web page that I could design and make all mine. I loved having a background that was appealing to only me and having my favorite song play when someone viewed my page. It was fun to read about other people and see your friends while looking at things that interested you on other peoples facebooks, and myspaces. Some disadvantages to wiki's I would see as "No one's thoughts and entries stay untouched by others". I agree with the students who say this bugged them about wiki's. I would hate making an entry on a wiki just to see it changed the next day.

Wiki project

1. In my group for the wiki project we have three group members. Myself, Hillary, and Kelly. We have not assigned who will be working on what for this project yet. None of us knew what DMCA was, so we spent the first day of class doing only research. It took us a while to find a simple definition for what the DMCA is. Once we found it, it was easier to go from there and we found out a lot of useful information about it.

2. I didn't know what the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protected prior to doing my research. Once I found out what it was and protected it seemed to be a pretty obvious topic. I always assumed there was some sort of act like this that protected the internet and what was on it, I just never knew what it was called. I found out the general highlights that create the act and protect it. I am still a little fuzzy about what it totally consists of but I know that further research will help clear these things up.

3.http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act:

3 most important things to college students

I believe facebook is one of the largest part of some college students lives. Most the people I know check their facebook the first thing when they wake up, go to sleep, and multiple times throughout the day. Its very popular for people to have internet on their phone today so they can "creep" on facebook all day. Reading the blogging article last night made me recognize the idea that facebook could be a type of blog. Everyone can know everything about someone just by their facebook, and its a very important form on communication these days. Along with facebook, I think technology today in general is a large part of college students lives. We use our ipods, laptops, cellphones almost all day everyday. It's how we basically do everything and without it we don't really know what to do. College students who use facebook and technology generally enjoy partying and having fun too! I don't think technology and facebook are how you have fun but I think college students are at a time in their lives when their only responsibilities are to show up to work on time and do your homework. Therefore we try to have as much fun as possible right now while we have the chance, before we have careers and families to watch after.

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Blog #2

In the Takayoshi and Selfe article I see their main point as being the importance of teaching multimodality in college level composition classes. In this article multimodal texts are seen as "texts hat incorporate words, images, video, and sound". Takayoshi and Selfe believe that its important to teach these things becase "whatever profession students hope to enter, they can expect to read and be asked to help compose multimodal texts of various kids, texts designed to communicate on mulitple semiotic channels, using all available means of creating and conveying meaning". I do agree that students will do these things because like they said, most professions will require it, but I am not sure if composition teachers should be the ones teaching it. I think it is equally imporatant to learn both. I think this piece and Daley's piece both bring up excilent points as to how important techonology is in our lives. I found this piece to be much more understandable and interesting than Daley's piece. Thinking About Multimodality made it more aparent how "visual compositions carry different kinds of meanings that words are not good at capturing". This was a point I had never thought of but it seems to be almost obvious to me now. The blogging article written by walker and Nardi opened my eyes to blogging. I have never read peoples personal blogs and until this article I never realized that people used blogs a online journal. I do see it as fitting in because it will help our class form a community and hopefully our classmates will comment on eachothers and it can be a new form of discussion. However, I don't see people in our class using it as an online journal/diary. Hopefully students will use it to their advantage and start a community instead of just doing it for class!

Blog #1

I think Daley's main argument in this article is to show how important media literacy has become to our generation. She states that "film, television, computer and online games, and music constitute the current vernacular". Daley is arguing that media literacy, for average citizens, is the most common way for us to recieve information. She goes on to explain that it is important to understand that "text and multimedia construct meaning" differently. I think her argument that text and media literacy are different is very interesting. I do agree with her that students recieve their information mostly from the media and we do want to be understood by our professors and classmates. After taking many classes about this subject, I was intrigued when she said "Multimedia and cinema, though sometimes enriched by language, embrace moany other elements as co-equal-not only image but also sound, duration, color, and design". I am constantly looking at those things while reading a magazine, watching television, or seeing a commercial. Her implications for a class like ours show how color, sound, duration, and design are easy to manipulate and have a large effect on our target audience. If she supports media literacy she must understand the power it has. I think in this class we will be learning about how to manipulate the media and understand the affect is has on its viewers.