Collabraitive Writing

I think that a screenplay will be too hard to make with keeping 30+ students ideas and opinions in mind, eventually it will just be a few people who will be willing to still give ideas while the rest just sit there. Poetry or a children's story seem to be the easiest to do given the simplicity of it. Poem's can be interepeted many ways and can be mashed together so long as they have a central theme to them really. Writing a story will be hard without careful planning and letting people know how the page before them goes. Right now I am to tired to even begin to think how to even go about this, if were going to have the small groups eventually all combine their pieces I doubt it will go over smoothly but if each small group is just making their own little colab story than I suppose It won't be too bad.

Email Etiquette

Make Sure To Have A Meaningful Subject Line
-Let Them Know What It Is For

Use Standard And Correct Spelling, Punctuation, And Capitalization
-Use Microsoft Word (Copy it in Word, Paste In Email)
-Nothing Worse Than A Message In All Caps

Be Careful When Using Jokes
-Humor Can Be Hard To Come Across The Right Way

Responding To Messages
-Try to Respond In A Timely Manner
-Never Send An Attachment To Someone You Haven't Contacted Before
-Make Sure To Have An Anti Virus Software
-Avoid Unecessary Large Files If You Have To Inform Them What The File Is

Social Media Revolution

I thought that this video had some cool effects and that they must have put a considerable amount of time and effort on this. I think the way they had the information displayed really helped keep the viewers attention and emphasized how far technology has come. I also think that the choice of song was a good one "Right Here, Right Now" I believe is the title of the song and it gives a background presence of the fact that this is what is happening right now, it's not in the distant future but fast and approaching. The way that they helped show the meaning of the information was good as well such as how they said how many people were on facebook and than went and showed that if it was a country that it would be the fourth largest population wise. I whole heartidly believe that newspapers will eventually disapear as I myself forget that they even exisit for the most part only remebering them when I see some mail sticking out.

Social Media is a big thing now and will be even more so down the road it has already played a big role in my generation and it can only effect more to come. It will be wierd to see all the things that I did as a teen that were once so cutting edge be reduced to the equivilant of oh lets say dial up. *shudders*

Free Writing Activity

I remeber when it wasn't "cool" to play video games but now there seems to be a huge influx of gaming because of Modern Warfare. It was cool at first that video gaming was now getting some recognition albiet its mostly on about one or two games (modern warfare 2 and possibly Battlefield now) All i end up hearing is story after story of all these amazing scenrios that apparntly happened to players.

I am not saying that their lying per say but a lot of the stories are videos that you can find on youtube. I don't like how all you ever hear about is these epic moments of domination a.k.a Pwning the h e double hockey sticks out of "n00bs". when the majority of your playtime is you getting one or two kills than skipping the kill cam, spawning and running back to the exact same spot you just got killed in order to get a payback kill.

If you have a awesome story thats cool tell us about it but don't over emphasis it and say it every day. This game is just like halo 3 play it enough and something amazing is bound to happen.