My focus on Literacy

29Sep09

I really want to focus on learning how to better research with the internet. I really firmly believe that the internet should be used for the bettering our minds and our understanding of the world, and I personally want to learn a lot more from it. I’m having some issues with it for the moment, [...]

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What Does it Mean to be Literate?

24Sep09

When it comes down to asking what I think literacy is, I’m sort of old-fashioned. But literacy is a new concept within itself these days, and there are many new ways to describe literacy, as Mr. Rich has explained to us. We’re in a new world with many new environments, and to not be literate [...]

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Group Project

24Sep09

In a world full of limitless possibilities on the internet, life can be potentially dangerous. There are many, many ways in which a child can get caught up in the wrong places on the internet, and frankly I wouldn’t want that happening to my child. There are also many dangerous things for any age on [...]

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What I Think the Internet is used for, and How it Should be Used.

21Sep09

I think the internet is used for a huge variety of things, and it all truly depends on the person. As, the YouTube video says…some people actually do use it for it porn(sadly). But many of us actually use it for knowledgable purposes. Many people use the internet solely for the use of reasearch on [...]

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How I Use New Media.

17Sep09

The ways I use new media today are endless. Whether it’s from jamming to music off of my MP3 player while I’m working out or just plain old sitting on the couch and watching high definition television. I constantly use new technology day-to-day. Despite this, I happen to use two things way more frequently than [...]

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New Media :)

16Sep09

AH, thank God for new media. I’m sure the rest of the world my age agrees with me 100%. New media has given us so many endless opportunities, and so many different things to do. We have the opportunity to get to talk to someone miles away in just seconds or milliseconds due to the wonderful [...]

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