Tweeting Tweets on Twitter and What Others Have to Say

To fulfill an assignment for my Introduction into the Writing Arts class, we were responsible for adding a “friend” onto our twitter account.  However, the addition was to be someone not already in the class.  I chose my friend Becky to help me with this accomplishment.  Finding Becky to be an interesting character both in [...]

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Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0……..an epiphany!!!!!

          At first when we were assigned the Web 2.0 reading, I assumed that it would be some sort of new variation of the internet.  I wasn’t sure if would be similar to the difference between the base model of a car compared to an upgraded version with new features such as leather seats, a sunroof, [...]

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viewing the world one click at a time

Recently we went vent over the web 2.0 readings for our Introduction into Writing Arts class.  Through the readings and class discussions the only thing that I was able to get out of the whole thing was the following:  the world is just one click away.  In other words there really isn’t to many things [...]

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Viewing things 1″ at a Time

In a recent Writer’s Mind class, my professor had us describe everything that we saw throu a 1 in picture frame.  As a class we were given the topic of school lunches, and the assignment consisted of us listing ,with as much discription, everything that we could see.  One could also take this a step further [...]

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Better Answers for Those Open Ended Questions

As you can see, a few of us have been on a banned book trip.  In an earlier blog I personally posted, I talked about the importance of our children reading and how it can help with many different academic areas: vocabulary, parts of speech, context, and structure are just to name a few.  Continued [...]

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