Showing posts with label fletcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fletcher. Show all posts

Monday, August 16, 2010

Mrs. Fletcher--question about my blogs?

Um,I've looked back at my blogs and I've written four I believe but when I look at my profile it shows I only have one post. I find this really weird and it bothers me a lot because in my other blogs I've written I've gotten responses--please help!

Friday, June 18, 2010

Fletcher Checks In #2

Fifteen bloggers on June 18, and eight open invites. You kids are amazing me...at least I think you are. I really can't remember how many kids were blogging last year at this time. But just wait. People will start blogging in August, and start talking about the Postman chapters we are talking about now, and you'll think, "Oh my goodness! That is SO LAST JUNE!"

I saw Amusing Ourselves to Death at the Long Beach Towne Center Barnes and Noble yesterday on the summer homework table, and of course, Brave New World is everywhere.

I mentioned in an earlier blog comment that The Shallows is blowing my mind. It IS. I am going to want to talk about that book, too. It's about how the internet is actually changing the way human beings THINK, and therefore has an impact on how the human brain actually FUNCTIONS. Your plastic brain is shaped by your experiences, and working/reading/playing online is definitely something we all experience. When we encounter those rare people who are NOT online (great Grandma, hermits, Aborigines, Mr. Jacobsma), we consider them Luddites. The important thing is that all this cultural change is going on without analysis. We need to just stop and ask, How is this changing the Human Being?? Because we ARE being changed, and we are mostly oblivious and uncritical. We just want to see what the new iPhone will DO.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Housekeeping Memo #1

First of all, we have 11 kids signed on to the blog and five open invitations -- that has to be some kind of record for June 14. To earn the extra credit, though, you're going to have to say something, OK? You still have tons of time, though. June is only half over, and there's still 12 points on the table for July. In the big scheme of things, 3 points between June and July is not enough to worry about. It's like a butterfly sneezing on your arm.

Lenora Brown posted, and Breahna and Viola have both commented on her post. To see the entire thread all at once, click on the title of the post, and their conversation opens up. Another way to accomplish the same thing is to click on the time that appears next to the signature.

I like it that Lenora used tags -- I always forget to use tags, but these are very powerful little tools. It's a way of summarizing! I'm going to work on remembering to use them, and I want you to do the same.