pandora or last fm

Today was a good day in class: we got to do my favorite thing, which is surf the world wide web. Our assignment was to look at Pandora and last fm. Ill tell yall now that I use Pandora a lot so ill try not to just automatically dislike the other site.
Who ever decided to come up with an idea like Pandora was a real smart person. For those of u that have no clue what Pandora or last fm is let me explain: its sort of like an online radio station, except for the fact that you can choose the music that you want to hear. All you do is go to either of the two web sites you have to register for an account. You don’t really have to get an account if you don’t want to, but its free and it makes things a lot easier if you do. You type either the name of the band or song in the search bar, and it creates a radio station for you with that music and anything similar to it for you.
Last fm was pretty much the same thing, you type what you want to hear and it creates a station for you. Now I said that I wasn’t going to automatically pick Pandora over last fm, but I have to. Both of the sites of things that I didn’t like though. I don’t really like the fact that you can’t skip to many songs, I mean why would someone try and force you to listen to something that you don’t want to hear? Also you cant skip more than seven songs an hour, and if u pass a song on accident you cant go back. When you type in a certain song to hear ya it creates the station but the specific song that you wanted to hear doesn’t come on for like an hour. Last fm I think was a pointless website. It doesn’t have as much music as Pandora does by far, and it has all of the same problems as Pandora. There is a lot of good things about the sites though, and I love to listen to them

writing center

Today was a good day. I had my second writing center experience it went well. It was a little different this time, instead of me reading the paper out loud this time the tutor did. I kind of like it when the student has to read the paper out loud because you can catch a lot of the mistakes that you might of made. Never the less it’s a good experience. When Mrs. Crawford first told us that san Antonio college requires all students writing a paper has to get there paper looked at in the writing center I was a little mad. I thought that it was stupid and a waste of time. Turns out I was wrong. The writing center is a really good thing. It helps out so much, ill never write a paper again without going there. Back to my paper, the tutor did a good job helping me on this assignment I pretty much nailed it she just had to help me with a few little things, and of course I had to add details. I was really happy when I got the tutor that I got assigned because she really knew the assignment and what Mrs. Crawford looks for. The girl mad my day when she said that my writing paper was excellent. I think next time I will defiantly get an appt in advance. The only the bad about the san Antonio college writing center is that it is always booked up, you have to get an appt like two weeks in advance. Our next writing assignment is coming up Mrs. Crawford hasn’t really told us what it about but I already have my appt ready to go. I would also like to say that I wish they would get more writing counselors so that maybe we could get an appt easier. They have plenty of computers in there and it’s the only computer lab on the whole campus that you are allowed to have food and drinks in, so it’s a real relaxed place to go and work on papers. I would recommend everyone go there even if you’re the best writer ever

commenting

Well today we went to the writing center the task was to read our classmates blogs up to this point. After looking over the entire classes’ blogs I decided just to comment on two blogs from my group. I decide to do Jesse and Stevens’s blogs.
The first one was jesses, he wrote about to of the four articles that we discussed in class. The first one was reading, writing, Iphoning. The second was e campus news. My comment was: I like your opinion. I think it is crazy where technology is at in the world today. I would rather have a laptop. Personally I don’t even like iphones; I’m more of a blackberry man myself. I also don’t see how a college can require the students to have an iphone, I’m pretty sure they already have a cell phone so why would they need to have another one. It’s just a waste of money that college students already don’t have. I also like hoe you touched on the article talking about the red, yellow, and green light. It kind of gives the students an idea where the stand and if they need to buckle down.
The second one was Stevens, he wrote about Brazilian obesity, and colleges scan facebook during admissions, I wrote: Way to go on your blogs. You were descriptive enough to where I knew exactly what you were talking about in the obesity section. I think it’s really sad when people get that way. When it comes to colleges getting to look at your facebook I think that is a big invasion of privacy. Its not right to let some stranger that you don’t even know yet go thru your stuff. I think that it isn’t there business what you do in your off time as long as you do well in school. I think it’s just another way that the college tries to use to boss you around.
I think it is a good idea to comment on other people’s blogs, it’s a great way to get insight on what the classmates think about what we do in class. I didn’t mind having my blogs commented on it’s a great way in kind of interact with our peers.

timeline

Everyday I go to my English class and I actually can say that I learned something new not many people can say that. Today we got into groups and started to work on our vlog essay assignment. I paired up with Jesse. Our assignment for that day was to create a time line of what happened in our video blog. For those of you who might not know what that means it’s easy all you do is make a time line, and in the beginning you write what happened in the first minute of the video. At the end of the time line you write what happens at the end of the video. For the middle parts all you have to do is and what happened in sequence what happens for the rest of your video. For some people this is real easy, for the other students who loved short videos it’s probably hard. My video was the perfect length so it was pretty easy.
I like the time line idea it really helps the writer get a good plan going of what he wants to write about, and where he wants everything to go. It really makes writing the paper o much easier. When I sat down to write my descriptive essay on my you tube vlog I know where everything is going to go no questions asked.
When it comes to starting to write my essays it’s like I freeze up, I’m not sure why I do that I just do. This new timeline way is the perfect way to write something so ill have no excuses on why I can’t start to write the best paper I can possibly write. I’m not to sure if the timeline method is only for video essays or not but I can promise you that I’m going to use it for every paper from here on out no matter if it’s a descriptive essay or a research paper.
Like I said before this is a great method the only thing that could probably help me more is to add more details. It is always good when writing a paper to have a lot of details so the reader gets a sense of being there with you.

my Vlog

After watching vlog after vlog I think I finally found one that I can write about. First off let me tell you what a vlog is. It’s like a blog just like this but instead of going to a website and typing it in its all done by video on you tube. I’m writing my paper about this guy from Wisconsin. Online he goes by Couver87. It talks about things that he does in his life. He seems to me like a weirdo but at the same time his vlog gives me a lot to write about. The first part of his video talks about how he went to a presidential speech. He is also very into movies… weird movies. It also talks briefly about an internship that he does.
He had never written a blog before but all of the fans he has wanted him to. I don’t know how he had so many fans, but he does. The guy has tons of videos posted online. Now back to the speech. He attended a presidential speech addressing the educational system. 75,000 people attended this event and it took three hours to get through security and two hours to get into your assigned seat. His friend was working the security at the venue and was able to escort him to the side of the stage, so he was very close to the president. I’ve never ever gotten to go to a place like that before I can only imagine how cool it would be.
He really enjoys going to the movies, he says that he is going thru a movie phase in his life. He talks about a recent movie that he has seen called earth it’s about human nature and how animals eat each other. He also like wolverine and star trek personally ive never seen any of the three and I’m pretty sure that I never will. He also like twilight the movie and the books. Once again ive never seen it.
Lastpart of the vlog he talks about his appearance. He dresses like a slog and doesn’t care about how he looks. He tries to clean up in the video but it does no good.

an anthropological introduction to you tube

Today I watched The You Tube video “An Anthropological Introduction to You Tube” Wesch talks about the popularity of You Tube. It talks about how the three guys decided to make you tube and they’re first video. He says that web links everybody mainly people. Also he communicated with somebody from Africa to put a video onto the page he was making. He is a teacher and has about 10 students. In classes they’ll talk about You Tube. Surprisingly 35+ men and women are the ones that upload videos the most. He shows “Charlie bit my finger”, which is a baby who has the coolest accent ever. Then about the song “Soulja Boy” and shows how quickly people all over the world watch these videos, and then make remixes to the videos. Also people about web cams, and when you talk you’re sizing up the context and you don’t know when you’re getting watched. Mike then talks about vlogs, which are video blogs. I noticed how people are nervous doing it for the first time. People in the videos were stuttering and did not really know what to say. You Tube has sections of most viewed, top rated, because people will try to be stars of You Tube. There are so many different types of videos on You Tube, you can look up anything and most likely they will have a video about it. Whatever you can think of, You Tube will have it. You Tube has brought the world together, people communicate and comment videos from Japan, Korea, and Africa. I know I always talk about this, but I still can’t believe how far we have come and how far the internet has come. I think it is safe to say that we would be so lost if we didn’t have the internet and you tube. I’ve always been a big fan of you tube, I’ve posted several videos on it I just wish I could remember the links. There is always something funny to watch on you tube. I love the crazy Indian videos of Romulus and Edgar. I can always rely on you tube to brighten my day.