Blog 8

I thought our classroom discussion in MOO was ridiculous! I, personally, feel like a permanent classroom done in this way would be completely unproductive. It seems like its to hard to stay on topic, get a feel for what everyone is trying to say, and stay on track. I have no idea what we talked about in MOO and it really just gave me a headache. Maybe if the website was set up differently, with different fonts or colors, it would help the follow-along process more, but i doubt that would even help that much.

As far as TOPIC is concerned, i have never personally experienced it. I don't think I would like it if I did though. I am the type of person that wants to know why im getting a specific grade and ways to improve myself. I feel like TOPIC might make a student feel like they are unimportant and that all their hardwork is just "graded" for the sake of grading, and not really taken seriously.

Blog 7

In terms of the internet, I think it is a great tool for communication. You can catch up with old friends through Myspace or Facebook, meet new people on line through chatrooms, pay your bills without leaving your house, or find out new information within a split second. However, I think the internet hinders composition and help do people's work for them. Rather than going to the library and investing hard work and time into research, it's just way easier to "google" something and the paraphrase it. What is also discouraging is all the videos and movies I have been exposed to in classes that portray how America is a struggling educational nation is comparison to countries like Japan, China and India. I think that the internet gives us an "easy way out" and allows us to say/do alot, but without a 100 percent effort. I think it's important to look back at all the amazing scholars and inteventors that America has produced and remember that they didn't "google" themselves into history!