My attempt at the assignment

The assignment for this unit in Child Abuse and Neglect has been structured to challenge your inner powers to emphasize and interpret the feelings of a victim of abuse. These skills are necessary for all of us that are working in this field. I would like for you to enter into your dyad and travel the Internet to the following site;

http://www.geocities.com/afterthestorm1/therearesecrets.htm.

Please open this site, read and reflect on this poem. In your dyad, begin a plan on how you or your dyad would represent to others the feelings expressed in this poem without the use of words. Your next task in this assignment is to formulate a strategy for the implementation of this plan. Once you have formulated the strategy, your next task is to create a workable plan of action to fulfill this assignment. The next step of this assignment is to present your representation and then present the material on this site that represents a true picture of the victim for all to review and reflect. Succesful completion of this assignment will evaluated upon how well the final product meets the standards that have been set within the text of this assignment. Good luck and enjoy.

Readings for Wednesday, August 15

For Wednesday, you might want to read the article suggested for today, on theorizing the dangers and risks of introducing free-for-all online discussion into your classroom teaching. This is an article called "Adams Sherman Hill meets ENFI". It references some of the early work of Trent Batson and others who used online discussion to teach writing; Trent may or may not refer to it but he knows that I've mentioned it to you.

As to the Bean Chapter 4 reading suggested for Thursday: do it at your leisure. When we planned this workshop, we imagined that people would express a lot of concern about how to teach grammar and style, so we wanted you to read what John Bean had to say on the topic. As a group, you've not expressed that concern, so we won't spend time directly discussing that reading on Thursday. We still think everyone should be familiar with it, so hope you will read it eventually, if not tonight.

Farewell for now....

I loved working with you all this week, and especially loved seeing the rich array of ideas, assignments, and blog pages you came up with. I hope you felt the same way I did about the variety that emerged from our diverse disciplines and ways of thinking. We covered a great deal of distance by by working together.

I'm quite sure you'll enjoy Trent's workshop tomorrow, and then the opportunity to hone your own assignment.

See you in the blogosphere....

for now,
Wini

Using Flickr

This is just an experimental post--I wanted to see if it was easy or difficult to use a Flickr image in a post. For those that are interesting in using images in their blog posts, here's how I did it.
This is a picture taken in the Worcester Art Museum that I found by:

• Going to Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/
• Entering "Worcester Art Museum" (with quotation marks) in the Search box
• Clicking on the Advanced Search link
• Scrolling down and clicking on the checkboxes for Only search within Creative Commons licensed photos and Find content to modify build or adapt
• I clicked on the image I liked, then clicked All Sizes/Download/Small, saved it to my desktop.
• Went back to Blogger, clicked post, and then clicked on the Add Image icon (it looks like a landscape).

Mark's Post

There are many resources available to you as you study these subjects: textbooks; peer-reviewed journals; popular journals; material given you by your professors; and multiple Internet sources. (Remember- if it is on the Internet, it must be true). As your education proceeds, you will need to be able to evaluate these different sources for reliability and accuracy. For this assignment, we will compare and contrast different sources. 1. First, look at something very concrete and well-defined. Such as the innervation of a specific skeletal muscle. Use an anatomy textbook, and then compare this with sources such as Wikipedia and Google. 2. Second, investigate something slightly more subjective. Examples could include criteria for diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, or systemic lupus erythematosis. Again, use multiple sources to compare: textbook, journal article(s), Wikipedia. 3. Now get really fuzzy. Look up something controversial, or at least less well-defined. Acupuncture, aromatherapy, magnetic therapy, or megavitamin therapy. See how the different sources treat these subjects. Rate your different sources. Were they well-referenced? Did they explain the material? Did they seem biased one way or another? Do you believe everything that you read?

Ron's Assignment on Karl Rove's Resignation

IC105 College Writing I Professor Drogy

Thought Letter # 1:
Assignment: In 300-500 words, compare a newspaper account from the New York Times with the report in ALJAZEERA ON CARL ROVE’S RETIREMENT FROM BUSH STAFF. It is titled, “Bush Aide Karl Rove Quits.” The url for Aljazeera is http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/46127961-D436-40B3-922B-92CFC96F5A4E.htm.

Who is the author of each article.
What are the similarities and differences in the various aspects of the two reports? Consider length of article, the use of facts and opinions, and the overall tone of the writing.
Is the event treated in very similar or different fashion? Explain.
Is there a difference in the quality and/or correctness of the writing?

Responding to Parody

Please view the “Facebook Infomercial” parody video on the YouTube site at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0. (The video is three and a half minutes long. You will need to have a computer that will play sound—if you’re using the FPC computer lab bring a pair of headphones.)

The video is a parody—it was created for a college TV station and is like a comedy sketch, such one might see on Saturday Night Live or Mad TV, about the social networking website Facebook. It’s imitating, and thus poking fun at, the website Facebook. It is similar to a real commercial for the online dating service eHarmony.

The main purpose of parody is usually entertainment, to create something funny. Parody can also inform and persuade—comedy can sometimes provide special information and insight that direct discussion and description of an issue might not.

Please view the parody, and then write a response of several sentences about your reaction to the parody. Include in your response your answer to at least one of the following questions.

Did the parody help you understand what Facebook is like?
If you have heard of Facebook before, did the parody confirm or contradict your impression of Facebook and how people use it?
Did you enjoy watching the parody? Explain why or why not.