podcast

I haven't ever listened to a podcast before that I knew was a podcast. I would love to create a podcast, it's kind of like your own blurb on a radio show, which is something I have an interest in. Fort Lewis could use podcasting for KDUR, they could make the podcast blurbs in an educational format for students all around campus especially in the English department. Sometimes its nicer to have stuff read to you instead of you reading it yourself in College. Podcast to me and structured differently than a radio show because they're not a "live feed" , they are pre-recorded to perfection to inform a listener. You can play,pause,fastfoward, and rewind podcast, in radio thats not possible.

MARRRS

Mars is Heaven by:Bradbury
This reading was great, I enjoyed reading a story rather than research which we have been doing for the last couple of weeks. It nice to break to read to.
If i was making this piece into a radio show I would definetley hype up the acting for each of the characters. In the beginning of the radio skit I would want to have like a backround knowledge to set the piece up by one of the characters. Id have the main character also do a narration from their point of view. To me a radio show would make this more of like a "book on tape" kinda deal and I'm more of a visual person, but if there were more descriptions made into the radio show, the audience would be able to grasp the story.
I read on some other classmates blogs sayin the desription might be too much for it to be on a radio show, but I think hearing rather than reading would really make a better effect so the listener could imagine everything, hopefully they wouldnt be driving while listening to this story. My favorite line of the story was.." The answer was interesting,telepathy,hypnosis,memory,and imagination".
Another major thing I would change is probably some of the words into simplier words, I do feel some of the more complicated words could possible get people lost.

disrupting intellectual property wikkki by thee teach :]

When it comes to wikis I had always thought that anyone can go on and edit and change everything, but I didn't know so many people have their wikis that they are passionate about and when they see something changed they change it back to what they feel is the right answer or argue until someone wins. When it comes to intellectual property the piece explained various examples from artists and writers."For example, the ability of an individual to manipulate digital music files through ripping, copying, downloading, and remixing has set the stage". We are trying to find a balance of what should be legal and what should be illegal. This piece is helpful especially reading this in the beginning we need to learn to collaborate it's a group effort and even though people may have the same thoughts as you do or totally different ones...its part of a partnership that you have to work things out together to make it a wiki to show a community of writers. I do feel there was some tension between the two authors because obviously as individuals they have their own mindset and they're not always going to say, "yeah thats a good idea". They're is going to be agreeing and disagreeing. This piece definitely helped me understand the wiki more from a classroom stance than the other authors piece, which will help my group along our journey with the wikkkkkki.

wikki wikkki wikkki

I was not very familiar with Wikis before reading this article. I probably knew what everyone else does.....It's not a "legit" source when it comes to scholarly papers because anyone can go on the wiki page and edit in their own facts or opinions and erase someone elses. Some advantages to using wikis have students work together and collaborating to share their own ideas on certain topics. Some disadvantages are students can right some ignorant things, but its a good thing we have teachers who can go on and erase whatever is inappropriate in their eyes. I like how you can make a wiki your own and you can put your own flare on it just if it was your own webpage. You can express yourself on a certain topic just like you can on a social networking program. I really never looked at wikis to have a realtion to social netoworking, but this piece in a way compared it to one."By observing and participating in different parts of each other’s texts, students were able to better understand writing for audiences and the importance of examining their own language and structure". I thought this part of the entry was interesting, because you can learn so much from what others have to say and they can give you their opinion to something that you have written and the best way to learn is from each other.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Kelly, Jennica and I chose to research the DMCA Act for our wiki project. I didn't know anything about this act upon todays research. I still haven't really grasped the basic knowledge of what the DMCA Act, I got a general base that it's an Act passed by Bill Clinton in 1988 that coerces with the World Intellectual Property Organization and Digital Rights Management treaties. This website highlights the main point of what the DMCA is http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/11/61232

students today

The picture to the right is a newer technology which I am sure will increase more than it already has in the past few years. Students walk to classes, drive to class listening to music with those little earbuds in their ears.


This picture is a prime example of a college student today they are using cell phones for phone calls, texts,television,internet,music, and games. We are the young adults who grew up with various amounts of technologies and the cell phone I believe is the main technology that people use for vas amounts of time usage for a collegiate student.

This picture portrays a college students in the 21st century who are computer literate. Most college students in this generation are using laptops for school and personal usage.

blog #2

Takayoshi and Selfe's main argument is students in college need to be well rounded in not just reading and writing, but with up and coming technology it is important for collegiate student to be familiar with. I do think it is necessary for students to know how to have visual and audio aids with the help of text. Most students learn more confidently when seeing or hearing something to help them remember in a way other than text. Daley's argument is very similar to Takayoshi's by wanting today's generation to be able to keep up with everything rather than the previous generations that we now have to teach how to use the various technologies. The blogging article reached to me because I was just using blogging for my classes and not for personal reasons. Being able to share thoughts and ideas on whatever is going through your head. I'm hopeful that other classmates check their colleagues blogs and have some insight on them to make it more of a learning experience some students have some of the best input. Blogging is an "online journal" and we can use it for various reasons and should.

literacy blog#1

Daley's main argument to this piece is the general consumption of the word "media literacy". She explains that generally people leak it to reading and writing, however it has all aspects of media(film,Internet,book,radio,etc..). Text and pictures can both give equal amount of meanings therefore pictures and audio are just as important as print. We learned a lot about this is Media Literacy how it literacy goes so much further into detail than expected just like Daley says. When you watch a film you're suppose to be conscious of the color,sound,labels,picture,actors. I agree with her standpoint you can't just read something or look at something and say what it means to you, theres a deeper knowing than that. The examples she used in her writing were very helpful to comprehend her points. I hope in this class we disect this reading a bit further when it comes to media literacy and pull apart different versions of the media and know the similarites and differences.