blog#20

Today’s experience was good and useful for our upcoming essay. It was a Comparison Contrast Worksheet in class. Also as an entire class we discussed what facebook and myspace have to offer that are alike and different. The whole class was involved in discussing what each website had to offer. For like 10 minutes we brainstormed individually what each website had that the other did not have or did have. Some things that Facebook has that myspace doesn’t is Farmville, Aquarium, Awards, Survey Questions to your friends, a wall to post things about your or others. Then Myspace has some things Facebook doesn’t have such as decorating your profile, Search for Jobs, Bulletins, and Rating the Professor. One by one we just each said something that Myspace or Facebook have to offer. I remember saying that only myspace you can decorate your profile, and then Stephen Collins in my group said that on Myspace you can search for jobs, which I didn’t know. I got a lot of information needed because I didn’t know about that 25+ minds are a lot better than 1 mind. I gained a lot of useful information from this group activity and will use a lot of it in my essay. In terms of responding to two other bloggers we never did that in class so I have no idea what to write about. The rest of the class we asked questions concerning the paper and what exactly we need to have in it. People had questions about the correct MLA format, because a lot of the papers have not had that on the paper. She said a lot of us have learned it, but there are still some students that do it the wrong way. Ms. Crawford also showed us on the green board the lay out of our essay and just things that we need to make sure and have in it. We need to have a strong thesis statement in our opening paragraph about the facebook/myspace essay, or a good topic sentence. Also need to have solid points with the paragraphs that we are writing about. Preferably she wants us to have five-six paragraphs, and as always provide useful information for the reader. Once again we never responded to two other bloggers so I just wrote about the what we did in class, and just what basically happened in the 50 minutes that we were there.