Ragin’ Kids

This past week in class we created a personal web page using Netvibes. At first I did not see the point in creating this, I figured it was solely something for our professor to teach, considering this is a technology based course, but after playing around with the site some more and talking about it [...]

“If you’re absent, E-mail it.” This is a rule instituted heavily by high school and college professors, and I wonder if that enforcement has trickled down to the middle schools. Sick day missed assignments used to be turned in the next available calss, no problem. Projects maybe would be an issue if handed in past [...]

Synthesizers were revolutionary in those seventies and eighties disco funk songs.  God I love them, those mesmerizing little melodies that sound so electric and take you to your own happy places of pure bliss.  Yea, I love that stuff, and I feel computers are only making that crazy abstract whole of sounds deeper and wider.  Trent [...]

After viewing the presidential C-span promotions on youtube.com, I thought very hard.  Since I already decided to vote for Obama, I came in with a corrupt view of the situation already, so I somehow decided to watch McCain first because I never really saw him much it seems.  I viewed all the bad criticisms I [...]

Living in America, everyone knows about the argument of obesity.  It is a very difficult stance to argue because over a quarter of the population is literally obese.  The problem is blatant, with people getting regularly destroyed by heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in their fourties, and some people are not even making it to fourty.  [...]

Research is something most students are reluctant to do.  No one wants to waste time on finding information on something they don’t have interest in.  Some topics are fun and open, but many assignments have boundaries and specific directions that require not known knowledge to be researched.  The internet already made research incredibly easier, but nowadays [...]

The internet, a blessing or a curse?  Just like everything else in life it all depends on how one uses it.  In the case of Lambdamoo people became confused between reality and the cyber space game.  With such blurry lines between cyber space and reality many people are becoming confused with who they truly are.  [...]

Once again I’m pulling this blog from my Literacy in today’s World class.  As a future teacher who already knows how to say and spell words I am going to be responsible for teaching my students the same thing I once learned how ever many decades ago.   In class we are learning about schema theory.  [...]

I am currently enrolled in a class called Structures of Mathematics and it has got to be the weirdest math course I have ever encountered. I’ve come to assume that it is math that we will eventually be expected to teach elementary level children because it is a requirement of elementary education majors AND the [...]

Every day thousands of youtube users upload videos that they hope will become a top search to the internet audience, but none thought they would come across something as interesting as lonelygirl15. Take a sick man with a creative idea, an online broadcasting site, some actors, a web cam, and a good thousand bored people [...]