unit 3 blog

Blog Unit 3

            This was a very interesting article about how language goes back in time with very different styles. This was about how books were all started and who would have figured you could have this one little item the Amazon Kindle book that will store several hundred books and you can take them with you everywhere you go that is how amazing our sources have become.

            Why There Are Pages and Why We Must Turn Them by Robert Bringhurst has very great views of the books and goes really deep in discussing the history about all of them. The art of storytelling has not really changed in my opinion now days the storytelling is more adventurous and has different twists in books. The older books are more truthful and are still very interesting. A book is not a catalog or list; it has to make more sense than that. It is not a stack of cordwood but a tree; a branching, leafing, flowering structure, unfolding in the mind, where it can find the space it needs (21). This really shows me how people use the tree as an explanation on how they want their story to start and begin.  To me a book is a very creative piece of art it gives the brain something else to think about. What makes a book a book, in the fullest sense of the word, is its plausible claim to be a fairly self-contained component of the essential human legacy (22). Does this make printed books obsolete? It does nothing of the kind- not in English, French, or Russian, and not in Inuktitut or Cree. Books are not in competition with the computer any more than they are with the typewriter or with the pin (24). This just shows to prove on how much we actually rely on computers now versus books.

Works Cited

            Bringhurst, Robert., Bay, Heriot. “Why There Are Pages and Why They Must Turn.” World Literature Today Vol. 82.5. (2008):21-26. EBSCO. University of Oklahoma Library. 17 Feb 2011. http://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/eds/detail?hid=2&sid=30ebfd3d-79b1-4de6-adfd-da38feab90ad%40sessionmgr4&vid=3&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#db=f5h&AN=34365977.

Peer's Blog Unit 2

Peer’s Blog Unit 2

            I was reading Christie’s blog and I completely agree with everything that she suggests for parents and school officials on handling students the proper ways instead of just expelling them or taking care of it themselves. I don’t believe in taking kids out of the classroom if not necessary. There is always better ways to get the point across! She strongly suggests for parents to get familiar with the social websites to learn what their kids are actually doing which is a great idea. I actually had to teach my parents what to do and that was the only way I was able to get online. Christie to me has very good points to her decisions.

Unit 2- Internet Bullying

Blogging- Against Bullying on the Internet

            During kindergarten on up in life you will notice the bullying life. People not only do it face to face but on the internet as well. Now day technology has social web pages as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace that people are constantly posting mean and hurtful things. David L. Hudson has made a book containing on how school officials are trying to handle this matter in their own hands and taken to the court of law. The jury points out “that the first amendment protects critical speech on the Internet” (63). I feel that if the parents were more involved in learning the new types of technology and following them on these social websites they are more likely to solve the problem before they start. Also, when school officials learn this they should bring it to a parent-teacher conference to see what the trouble is and try to find out a solution that better suits both parties.

            With these gestures given to teachers outside of school I do not think that they should be punished in school for something outside the campus and not on some school trip. To me this is unnecessary. Because everyone is entitled to their own opinion and they seem to take it another way. I don’t believe that children should be throwing gestures up like that but still it was not right to take matters in their own hands without consulting the parents first.

            I believe if parents would just stop and talk to their kids and spend more time with them it might just be a better place.

Works Cited

Hudson, David. Blogging. Chelsea House, 2007. University of Oklahoma Libraries’. < http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/lib/sooner/docDetail.action?docID=10284452>.