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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Jan. 25th, 2011 11:00 pmI woke up this morning and read my Henrietta Lacks books a bit before getting up to watch Oscar nominations. That I actually don’t miss; it is my favorite award show and I watched every single movie that ever won an Oscar and this in the years before Neflix where I had to track them down through the library. This year I’ve seen 3 out of 10 movies: The Kids and All Right, Inception and Toy Story 3.
In the morning I put together Assignment 1 for the writing classes – it actually came together very quickly. This is my question for the first 5 page paper based on Jenkins’ essay on new media: What role, if any, should traditional institutions like corporations, cultural conservatives or educators play in the new media?
I hope some would be on the side of corporations or at least make their arguments more complex than regular people should do whatever they want online, but they rarely go against authors they read or make complex arguments.
Again my Section 2 is much better than Section 1 – group dynamics and class personalities matter so much. In my section 1 of the writing class I got a few smirking boys who really don’t want to be there or want to read or care and they throw the whole class off. When I asked all students to go around the room and tell me what they thought of the reading, if they liked it and why, if they disliked it, maybe some sections they did find interesting – my first section just found the reading repetitive and boring and all pretty much answered the same way. In the second section, although some found it long, everyone found one moment or point that they found interesting. I have so much more fun and better discussion with this class. It helps that all students who had to present in the reading showed up. In the first section, two out of three skipped out.
I watched the State of the Union while cross stitching which was a great combination. I do like see the State of the Union live, even during Bush era, I get a little optimistic about our country after listening to its rhetoric although I logically know that it is not like something would be accomplished. But I did like the congress people sitting together. The standing ovations while still obviously partisan did not present such a clear division visually. Lots of emphasis on education in the speech but humanities matter too – if you can’t write or think it is hard to innovate. Good speech.
Exercise: 31 minutes on Wii. I did Wii Fit plus routines today with a combination of yoga, strength and games. I get bored a bit doing this but it was a change.
Cross-stitch: all nice deep pink on the little bear’s blanket
Late in the evening I was working on my Egypt lecture, outlines and Powerpoint until midnight.
In the morning I put together Assignment 1 for the writing classes – it actually came together very quickly. This is my question for the first 5 page paper based on Jenkins’ essay on new media: What role, if any, should traditional institutions like corporations, cultural conservatives or educators play in the new media?
I hope some would be on the side of corporations or at least make their arguments more complex than regular people should do whatever they want online, but they rarely go against authors they read or make complex arguments.
Again my Section 2 is much better than Section 1 – group dynamics and class personalities matter so much. In my section 1 of the writing class I got a few smirking boys who really don’t want to be there or want to read or care and they throw the whole class off. When I asked all students to go around the room and tell me what they thought of the reading, if they liked it and why, if they disliked it, maybe some sections they did find interesting – my first section just found the reading repetitive and boring and all pretty much answered the same way. In the second section, although some found it long, everyone found one moment or point that they found interesting. I have so much more fun and better discussion with this class. It helps that all students who had to present in the reading showed up. In the first section, two out of three skipped out.
I watched the State of the Union while cross stitching which was a great combination. I do like see the State of the Union live, even during Bush era, I get a little optimistic about our country after listening to its rhetoric although I logically know that it is not like something would be accomplished. But I did like the congress people sitting together. The standing ovations while still obviously partisan did not present such a clear division visually. Lots of emphasis on education in the speech but humanities matter too – if you can’t write or think it is hard to innovate. Good speech.
Exercise: 31 minutes on Wii. I did Wii Fit plus routines today with a combination of yoga, strength and games. I get bored a bit doing this but it was a change.
Cross-stitch: all nice deep pink on the little bear’s blanket
Late in the evening I was working on my Egypt lecture, outlines and Powerpoint until midnight.