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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

Friday, February 18, 2011

Something interesting for you fellow students.

So this has nothing to do with the article today that we are posting about, but it does with the past ones. This morning I was listening to the radio and they were talking about how on a show they have two of the most smartest people going up against a computer. I don't remember the shows name, but it was something to do with answering questions... But anyways, he was talking about how the computer new all the answers, and the computer would answer off of the question. For example, it would listen to the question and then scan it's data base and find the answer. I was really intrigued when I was listening this morning because of all the articles about how the internet it pretty much taking over and becoming a part of our everyday life. And then the radio person started talking about this philosopher (he wouldn't say his name because he said he didn't know how to pronounce it) but he said how the philosopher was talking about how scientists today can scan are minds while we are sleeping and how they can watch our dreams. He also mentioned how they have this new tool, that if we have any childhood memories or any memories in general that we don't want to remember or ever think of, that the scientist has this special way of removing it from our memory. And then the radio host when on saying that this philosopher had stated that in 35 years human minds and computer will join together.. Sound familiar?! But it's different from what your thinking right now! He was talking about how we would live inside computers?! Confusing and crazy?! Yeah I was thinking the same thing! Anyways, I don't know who all listens to the radio while getting ready so I thought I would share that little piece of information with ya'll just incase you guys didn't hear it. Feel free to add on to this blog too if I left anything out!.. Think about it... There just might be ROBOTS in the near future :) Haha!
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  1. EvelynFebruary 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM

    Dude that is interesting! we will be living with robots just like in the jetsons!!!!! pretty soon we'll have flying cars and air tube things that take us from room to another! CRAZY!

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  2. DcarlsonFebruary 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM

    This sounds more like the matrix where the AI take over and enslave the human race eventually sucking off our body heat to power themselves.

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