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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!


--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

More then one way to learn.

In the article by Peter W. Cookson Jr. “What Would Socrates Say?” he writes “The linear literacy of the age of print gave birth to the concept of accumulating knowledge systematically in archives, libraries, and databases.” Cookson makes a great point as one amasses a collection of writings they must be put in order with some type of a system. Now that we have a system for the writings we needed a way to access them. As time goes on the system gets bigger and faster. Now we have tools Cookson likes to call the Learning Sphere a web based platform free and open-sourced. Now people can access organized inquiry, demanding courses of study that reaches around the world. With all the new technology the book has almost been forgotten, the book can be called obsolete.
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3 comments:

  1. mswrayFebruary 2, 2011 at 11:41 AM

    If you were to, so to say, "get rid of books" then places like Wikipedia would have to be taken as true facts. Even though with Wikipedia you can edit and add information at your own leisure, it doesn't make it all true. We still need the back ups to make sure what we are reading online is truly true. It's like having a back up hard drive when your computer crashes. You might be able to get some things back, but without a back up hard drive, you wouldn't have everything..

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  2. Keaton13February 2, 2011 at 11:44 AM

    I really like the way you describe the learning sphere it cleared up a lot of questions and made what Cookson was talking about a lot more clear. The learning sphere is what is going to take over our ignorance not necessarily just Google. It's the how database which we call the internet.

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  3. sfowler318February 2, 2011 at 11:55 AM

    I lied the way you described the database of information

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