Comments for Mahoney's Honors Composition

Comment on S. Craig Watkins, “The Young and the Digital,” interview by artzgirl

artzgirl — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:38:50 +0000

Their reason for the migration from myspace to facebook is very interesting. When I switched, these factors did not cross my mind unless it was subconsciously and I never noticed. I understand the safe sharing factor but the racist reason? Wow.

Comment on blogs in the classroom by arutayro

arutayro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:56:30 +0000

I have to completely agree with you. Blogging is not a typical tool for teachers to use. I had the same experiance in highschool when my teacher would assign us work to write on the wiki blog thingy that I cannot remember.
I just find the whole blogging outside the classroom too much of a hassal. I am the type of person who likes to let things go after I leave the classroom, and thinking at home is just too much work

Comment on The Classroom and the Blog by plummette

plummette — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:54:30 +0000

Perhaps my response was a tad vague. I feel like I should elaborate on my opinion a bit more. I honestly think that classroom blogs are an extremely essential tool for bettering student-student/student-teacher communication. It allows for students to post things and get feedback from their teachers. It also allows for students to communicate with one another to not only get peer review on their literary works, but to help one another study and bounce ideas off of each other. It’s definitely an excellent linkage amongst members of a classroom setting.

Comment on The Classroom and the Blog by plummette

plummette — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:37:09 +0000

I completely agree with your summary, m’dear! Classroom blogs are an essential learning and communication tool for students…such as this lovely blog. Hahaha. =D

Comment on \^/02|)5, 7#323 423 _||_|57 700 /v\4|V`/ 0|= 7#3/v\ by Linkat3

Linkat3 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:49 +0000

“Words, there are just too many of them.”

It took Fallon and I, working together, way to long to figure that out. But we did it!

And as for you actual post, lol, I like the idea of blogging being seen as a completely seperate entity from other forms of writing and language. Its jsut too difficult to really compare it to written fiction, newspapers, etc. Of course there are similarities and many arguments can be made for the legitimacy or illegitmacy of blogging, but it makes the most sense to me to just accept it as a new form of wriitng and move on. Where is all this back-and-forth debate really getting us? Blogs are here for good, or atleast until something new and better comes along.

Your second article interested me as well becasue it vaguely relates back to one of mine, which was more about the use of pictures in blogging, but the same basic idea of a visual element was there. I’d never thought about the possible differences between how males and females approach the visual element of blogging.

Comment on \^/02|)5, 7#323 423 _||_|57 700 /v\4|V`/ 0|= 7#3/v\ by plummette

plummette — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:34:15 +0000

OHMIGOSH! I TRANSLATED YOUR TITLE WITH LINDSEY, AND WE ARE SUPER PROUD OF OURSELVES! XD

Comment on Common Visual Design Elements/Blogging as a Social Action by artzgirl

artzgirl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:53:48 +0000

I think it’s really scary that our private and public lives are becoming one in the same thanks to blogging. It is getting hard to tell what is a “breech of privacy” anymore and it’s scary that the privacy rights pages are so long and detailed. “Blogging as a Social Action” sounds like an interesting article!

Comment on Blogging about blogs… by Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:26:00 +0000

just realized in this, i did summarize the two we are reading. that is my summary of them.

Comment on Review of “Blogging As A Social Action” by sablex14

sablex14 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:22:22 +0000

I havent read this article so I don’t know much about it in depth but I would definitely have to agree with their thoughts on public information becoming more popular in society today. The current society no longer keeps their personal life personal; facebook, blogs, myspace, webshots, twitter, etc. are all extremely popular tools used by the current public. Almost everyone in society (in the current generation) is putting themselves out in the open, not only physically in pictures but also internally by putting their individual and very personal feelings and emotions out for others to read. It is so easy in today’s world to go on the internet and find out almost everything about a person. This can have its benefits in the way that everyone in society is more connected, but I also think having some aspects of your life kept private is a definite necessity.

Comment on Article Summaries by vjune2

vjune2 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:55:32 +0000

I agree with the central concept of the article: blogging is a good medium for developing children to be more literally inclined. Blogging allows for students to not only practice writing but to begin to identify with the important part of writing – distribution. It is a whole different ball game when a young student learns to write for an audience rather than just a first grade teacher.