Thursday, January 28, 2010

The effect of Youtube on student culture

Youtube will and already has had a profound effect on student culture because it allows them to connect and collaborate with each other and produce media in ways that weren’t possible before as well as providing them with a massive amount of content that they didn’t previously have access to.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Learning to Write in 148 words

All through my school years, I had a problem that can be best summarized as “extremely short attention span.” This proved to be challenging when I was forced to sit down and write. For one, I couldn’t sit still for longer than a minute and a half at a time. Second, I couldn’t think of anything but what else I could be doing. As a result, I didn’t actually learn how to write until my senior year of high school. By this point in my life I had settled down a bit and I was in an English class that I actually enjoyed. With the development of a little bit of self-control, self-motivation and some gentle nudging from my instructor, I learned how to produce clear, concise, well-written work.