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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 4, 2011

A vision of students today.

When I saw this video I couldn't believe that an average student has to multitask 26.5 hours of work, school work, tv, eating, sleeping a day! And what I believe that they are truly trying to say is that technology today doesn't help today's average students. It only seems to making it worse. By having to do so many task in one day cause to have a lot of stress on one person. And having them say that an average students leaves college with 20,000 dollars in debt sure doesn't help either. By having today's technology moving forward may help in the future, but with today's school system it doesn't seem to be helping that much. We need to modernize our school system to make it interact with the technology more so we are able to to learn and work better. I feel if we are able to transform the school system we can decrease the drop out rate for students, and help them learn and understand things better.
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  1. MichaelFebruary 4, 2011 at 11:44 AM

    The understanding that students typically leave college and enter their "productive years" burdened by the cost of their education, being $20,000 in debt helped me to better grasp why our educational systems needs overhaul, especially from the student learner perspective.

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  2. sfowler318February 4, 2011 at 11:55 AM

    from my understanding 26.5 hours a day, was the combined, group effort. In another words if a bunch a people got together and added everything they do in a day together, of course it will be more then 24 hours. Some people don't spend time watching tv, or spend 3.5 on the computer/internet. Instead of adding everyone’s times together, maybe an average time between everyone would have been more accurate

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