Saturday, January 31, 2009

Blog #2- Course readings

I am honestly not sure which course readings this blog is supposed to be about. I am going to write this blog on the basis of the various readings that we will be doing while in this class, that Dr. Chandler briefly told us about, while in class on Thursday Jan. 29th.

Some of the readings that Dr. Chandler talked about, captured my attention, while others turned my attention off. Right off the bat, the articles that captured my attention were as follows:

1. "Flashmobs"- While hearing what this article was about, I began to grow some interest in it. The title itself, is enough to make you wonder what the article is about and make you want to read it. It almost sounds like one of those space stories (which is something I am not interested in, yet this title caught my attention). While presenting this article topic to the class, Dr. Chandler mentioned that youtube can be a source of our presentations. I regularly use computers, but do not have a lot of experience with youtube.com. I tend to only go on youtube when a friend of mine tells me of a video that is sure to make me laugh (or just worthwhile to watch). Overall, this caught my attention.

2. "Friend Game"- This article caught my attention as well because it is about cyberbullies. I use social networking programs such as Myspace and Facebook, and never picture myself getting cyberbullied, yet it is possible. When Dr. Chandler was talking about this article, it caught my attention because I am going to be a teacher, and part of my job is to protect my students. I can do my best at protecting them in my classroom, but what happens when they leave my doors. There is no way of preventing them from having these social networking websites, nor ensuring their safety outside the classroom. There needs to be some sort of protection that can be put inplace to prevent these cases of cyber bulleying and horror stories that come from it.

The second part of this question asks for us to talk about any personal experience we have with any of the topics related to these articles. I have personal experience with the Friend Game article, as mentioned previously, that I do have a Myspace and Facebook account. Additionally, I would like to know what and how can we deal with cyberbulleying? The article entitled Flashmobs, I don't exactly have personal experience with, but I have interest in reading more about this phenomenon that people show up in an agreed upon destination, do their thing, and all disperse within minutes of their arrival. It sounds like a cult or something.

Those are the two articles that I hope to be assigned to report to the class.

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