Blog #14

I thought it was cool being able to comment other people’s blogs. I enjoyed being able to see how other people answer to the blog questions that you ask us to write about. I put comments telling them how I liked it and gave them insight from my style of writing. Although it was good being able to get writing ideas from their point of view. Everybody has a different style of writing or ideas, so while you give them your opinion you learn new things as your reading theirs. I didn’t feel bad about commenting them, because I didn’t criticize their writing, or said something harsh in their comment box. All I did was read their blog and tell them how I feel about their journal entry. It is kind of cool being able to comment other peoples writing. I enjoy reading the comments of what people say about my blogs. I didn’t get criticized. Lol. They agreed with what I was saying and gave some positive feedback. It is good seeing what they think of my article. It is helpful knowing what people think of your blogs, and it will only make you a better writer in the future.

Blog #13

Today in class we discussed a time line of our descriptive essay with Mrs. Crawford and a team member from our group. She told us how we should be very descriptive in our writing. For example, instead of “The cat ran down the street”, you could say “The black with brown spots cat ran furiously down the street”. Like she said you have a more visual picture in your head with the second example, rather than your first. You really just want to be describing with good details the video that you pick, if someone were reading your paper about the vlog you picked you want them to be able to have a clear visual picture in their head. You want to have all your senses in the essay, and if you don’t know them they are sound, taste, feeling, smell, sight. Sound you want to use voice, background. Taste you really can’t do unless the video is over food. Feeling you want to describe the emotion’s the person is using. Smell you most likely won’t use, and sight to describe the persons background. Mrs. Crawford told us that for the beginning you want to use sound, visual, and feeling. Preferably the best length of the video is 5-6 minutes. Before she had explained how to write the essay, I thought it was one of those 6 paragraphs that I use to write in middle school and high school. After she told us how it was going to be written, it seemed a lot easier to me. All you really do is talk about the video and just describe what he or she is doing. The girl is riding a bike, you can add her emotions, race, how fast, what kind of bike. It is all about creating a vision for the reader. The timeline helped because it is a guide that shows you where to put the ideas in your essay. For example, if you have 6 paragraphs, the third and fourth are the middle paragraphs. Definitely the time line helped me a lot because it changed the outlook I had of what we were having to do.

Blog #11

The You Tube video “An Anthropological Introduction to You Tube: by Mike Wesch talks about the popularity of You Tube. Mike says that people view You Tube more than the TV network NBC. There is a video of this popular song that people enjoy in one country, and then people in Korea or Japan animate the song. He says that web links everybody mainly people. Also he communicated with somebody from Africa to put a video onto the page he was making. He is a teacher and has about 10 students. In classes they’ll talk about You Tube. Surprisingly 35+ men and women are the ones that upload videos the most. He shows “Charlie bit my finger”, which is a baby who has the coolest accent ever. Lol! Then about the song “Soulja Boy”, and shows how quickly people all over the world watch these videos, and then make remixes to the videos. Also people about web cams, and when you talk you’re sizing up the context and you don’t know when you’re getting watched. Mike then talks about vlogs, which are video blogs. I noticed how people are nervous doing it for the first time. People in the videos were stuttering and did not really know what to say. You Tube has sections of most viewed, top rated, because people will try to be stars of You Tube. There are so many different types of videos on You Tube, you can look up anything and most likely they will have a video about it. Whatever you can think of, You Tube will have it. You Tube has brought the world together, people communicate and comment videos from Japan, Korea, Africa. Its awesome to me how people can communicate with each other from all over the world. This man credits You Tube for bringing his life back, and You Tube has helped people a lot. If you are ever sad, you can watch “Charlie Bit My Finger”, and I’m definitely positive that it will make you smile. I have my own You Tube video that me and my friends made, and I’ll look at videos of all different things. Sports, hunting, funny videos is what I’ll mainly look at. It is amazing how so many different ideas from the world come onto one website