sommers

Sommer's writing was really turned on the light in my head while reading it. The emphasis on how important revision when writing a paper is almost mind numbing. Revision turns out to be one of the most necessary parts when writing. I always knew it was important but after reading this it really makes me realize that i need to start revising my papers more closely and often. Then last weeks reading informed me on what was considered cheating. I didn't think half of the methods of cheating she mentioned was even cheating. Being informed about these two articles is very helpful since we are about to do our cycle two project that deals with research and citing. It was also helpful to know how important revision is.

The article that was more interesting to me was Nathan's on cheating. This caught my attention right away i mean what student hasn't been in a position where cheating is present. I feel like it surrounds a lot of students. While reading this i never even considered some of the methods she explained were considered cheating. I like this article because it makes me more aware of what is considered cheating and what i can do to not put myself into a position where i could get in trouble.

out loud

Reading out loud is proably one of my biggest fears. to be honest i thought that i was going to have to read it out loud in front of the whole class. when i found out that there would be only 3 other present it was a sigh of relief i think that it helped me in that i got to see how to write my paper better and made me see some of the grammatical errors

2 reading thing

Coughlan, Sean. "Phone Texting Helps Pupils Spell." bbc.co.uk. BBC News, 19 Nov. 2010. Web. 2 Feb. 2012.


In a newspaper article written by Sean Coughlan he talks about how there is a controversy between kids and their writing and reading due to texting. At first it states that many people think that it has a negative impact on the child's learning due to texting language. However, he goes on to say that it actually helps kids learn more. With texting kids are constantly reading and writing much like what Lunsford was saying in her article. For example if a kid text the word "l8er" they should have an understanding of what the actual word should be and actually know how it is spelled out.

I think that this article is right in multiple ways. When i am texting my friends and i dont know how to spell a word i have to sit there and play with it for a little while till i can figure out the correct spelling of the word. This method has helped me learn how to spell multiple words correctly that i use to have trouble with spelling before hand. Also computers and phones has auto correct so you can see what you did wrong. One thing that i have noticed to is that if i text my parents or someone of older age they usually do not understand some of the "texting language" that kids use this day and i usually have to spell correctly or they wont be able to understand what i  am talking about.


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 Toppo, Greg. "Social Media Finds a Place in the Classroom." usatoday.com. USA Today. 24 July.2011. 2 Feb. 2012.

In the second article that i found it is about a high school teacher who pushes his kids to use social networking. He includes it in his class and sometimes has kids plan things on theirs. His belief is that kids are brought up in the world of the 21st century and that it is a digital age and that's how they have been raised was to use things more digital. He also believes that using this method wont bore kids as much as say a regular book might. However, there is controversy on what the kids might be looking up on the internet in school. The solution they came up with was to just block certain sites like they do now. They also say they like to use Youtube videos, but the solution to that is to just pick out the videos before hand that the teacher might show in class.

I believe that this is a very good idea to incorporate social media like facebook and youtube into schools. my belief is that it will grab the attention of the students and encourage them to do better on their work with something that they are more familiar with. I think they should show more youtube videos in school and let them use facebook however with limitations appropriate for school.