post 5

Using the as an alternate means to a traditional clas excersise was not harder nor was it easier or more liberating it simply was just different. The reason being the instructor had the same expectations of the class as if it the blogs were a traditional assignment with the exclusion of getting points for hyperlinks. I believe with a revised grading checklist, the blogging system for doing a class assignments could have great success as portal to greater understanding popular culture.
This could be accomplished by streamlining the video process that was experimented at the end of calss onto the blogs and by grading the actual appearance of the blogs. Blogger itself is limiting in how a person can idividulize their blogs making it diffcult to customize it ,often adding bugs that can completly shut down a persons blog who decides to customize it, which happened to myself and another classmate. If this class truly wants to mimick popular culture to gain a better understanding a new venue needs to be found perhaps myspace, face book or whatever the most current trend supports.

post 4

A picture is definatly worth a thousand words, imagine what it would be to blind, every day we expireince so many beautiful things we take for granted. For instance how would a person decribe the color blue to a person who is blind must less something as gorgeous as a sunset. Often we as people are confonmted by images that invoke great feelings from sadness to great happyness, form eample as an american what kind of feeling come to you when you see pictures of the world trade centers after the to jet liners collided withe them. What di you feel when you seen them for the first time, as a person you may of heard it by word of mouth or the radio but the feeling that were felt were nothing to what was felt when the first images of the terroists attacks were seen.

A Sliper slope

Should students be able to cite databases like Wikipedia that depend on the knowledge of the masses? The answer in indefinitely no, according to Wikipedia itself strongly cautions against using Wikipedia as a reference and suggests using the material that wiki references instead. There is no way to tell who is adding or deleting information from the Wikipedia database or whether that person is even reputable. It is possible for people to delete true information from the database and replace it with false information which can make it difficult for the readers to distinguish what is true and false.
There are many who believe the Wikipedia is a reputable source because of the amount of people who are continually “improving “the site will catch the errors and random acts of vandalism. Some even believe that Wikipedia has changed the ways of truth and what it means to be false. These supporters argue that people learn from the masses starting from infancy such as speech, colors, ect. These people believe the community believes two plus two equals four the same way it decides what an apple is by consensus. If the community changes its mind ad decides two plus two equals five then two plus two does indeed equal five, now isn’t that a disturbing thought?
It would have been inconceivable a hundred years ago an unorganized army of unpaid volunteers could create anything of value but Wikipedia has the potential to be the greatest effort in collaborative knowledge gathering the world has ever seen , and even possible the largest cooperation of volunteers of any kind. The English language alone has had more than three million entries and is constantly ranked among the most visited sites in the world.
The amount of volunteers working on Wikipedia make it a useful tool for a starting place to start any kind or research, however it is only a starting place, from there the users need to practice their critical thinking and check th sources themselves to make sure the facts are true.

hum 101

One of the most influential and controversial technologies to impact America’s culture is the television. Unlike most modern day technologies the television was no invented by a single person but a byproduct of competing technologies. The first television was based on a scanning disk that was invented in 1884. This design was unable to provide a clear live action image. This technology would not become available until 1921 when two competing scientist developed two separate yet similar breakthrough in television technology that is still used today. At this time the television was unable to become popular because of the world wars but would eventually become mainstream during the 1950s. Interestingly enough at this time the obesity rate in the United States also begun to rise becoming a modern day epidemic. Obesity can lead to a number of health problems such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, orthopedic complications, and sleep apnea to name a few. The television has also been blamed for the ever decreasing morality of today’s society; a the programs and games are looking for the ever increasing shock value. Although these may be true, televisions have plenty of other good uses for them. Televisions can be used as an aid for education, to disseminate current events, improve communication, security purposes; a safe way to view a scene that’s a human could not, theater, and propaganda which can be either good or bad depending on its uses. The television has had both a positive and negative impact on our culture but as it is with anything too much of a good thing isn’t and needs to be used in moderation.

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