Blog Post #8 Schermerhorn

With the future comes questions; questions that a followed by ideas and assumptions of what will be. EM Forester shares his vision of the future with us in has short story, “The Machine Stops.” He sees the world as a place where people live in “cells” captured by this machine living below the earth’s surface, unable to have face to face communication. Only people who allowed to go above the surface can. This reminds me of the movie “The Island.” It’s about how people pay for a jelly like structure that has clones of their organs so if they get sick, they have a replacement. Little to their knowledge the company is making real human clones in an old military bunker below grown. The clones are told that the outside world has been contaminated and they are survivors. Each day they have a lottery where they can go to “the island” but really this is just people needing the clones body parts. Two of the clones escape informing their “investors” of the situation and the investors are so concerned with their lives they don’t even care that there are real people dying for them to live longer. It’s incredible the Sci-Fi similarities between “The Machine Stops” and “The Island” and how the technology plays such a huge role in the lives of people, but in the end technology always fails.

Schermerhorn Creative Proposal

1.    My group presentation topic is health; I believe that in the near future, within 10 years, everyone who is slightly motivated will be in great health because of new workout machines and discovers of medicine that will probably keep you alive and healthier for an extra 20 years.
2.    I would either like to research finding that nutritionist are working on and create the outcome of their experiments, I would like to film this or do an experiment of our own.
3.    If we did an experiment of our own we would need to record all data but I would want to video the process to a video camera as well.
4.    Depending on what my teammates want to do, I would like to start the experiment this week and continue filing and recording data until a few days before the project is due. I would want to start putting the film together by the end of next week. Then record our final conclusion the day before so we have as long as possible to complete the experiment.

Blog Post #11 Schermerhorn

Online Privacy is not existent. Although people believe they are safe online there are still ways to obtain any information wanted to obtain. For instance, if I did my banking online a hacker could easily, at least for them, hack all of my information and probably even wipe out my bank account. The term online privacy is simply there to make people not be afraid of putting information on the internet. This I hard to fathom, that everything that is put online is shared with the world but it’s true. Facebook claims to keep the information private that is requested, yet they continually get penalized for this deceiving term. I personally don’t put anything on the internet I would want the world to know or see. I believe companies and consumers should come to an alliance on what privacy really should be, and what both sides want out of it. I personally believe that everything you want to be private should not be shared with anyone that you do not consent to. With Googling my name all that came up was my Facebook but its private so all you can see in my picture and name. I believe this is because I haven’t had anything published, I don’t have any of my own accounts; it’s all under my parent’s name. I was expecting more to come up when I googled my dad’s name, there was literally nothing on him and he is a pilot and owns a store. Although my searches were invalid I do believe that privacy is an issue online which is causing distrust in the internet.

In Class Writing #9 Schermerhorn

     The audience of this article would be toward people who are probably a little older not teens mostly beacuse it refers to issues that mostly adults would be concerned with. Teenagers dont usually have grocery cards or read CSO. This article is responding to the issue of privacy with regards to buisnesses and consumers, with commercial transactions and cyberspace cookie-tracking. He uses CSO magazine and also that government records can be found online along with SEC violations. He uses CSO to support his claim with agreeing and using quotes from it and also uses the online records to support his claim. He uses logos alot along with pathos. When he talkes about using a dead persons grocery card this makes you feel almost discusted with those ways. He uses logos when giving hard facts about whats posted on line and how, making the reader come to the logical agreement of his argument. I would not use this article to back up my argument, although he uses a few sources it is too one-sided. His opinion is too blunt not having any understanding for the other side of the argument.

In class writing #8 Schermerhorn

My top 5
1.That 70's Show
2.Pirates of the Carribean
3.Harry Potter
4.The Hangover
5.The
Notebook

Group top 5
1. Harry potter book, The Sorcerer's Stone stone
2. The Hangover
3. Lord of the rings, The fellowship of the ring
4. The Matrix
5. Backstreet boys, I want it that way

Citations:

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Print.

The Hangover. Dir. Todd Phillips. Perf. Bradley Cooper, Ed Helmes. 2009. Film.

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings. Dir. Peter Jackson. Perf. Eligah Wood, Ian Makellen. New Line Cinema, 2001. Film

The Matrix .Dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski. Perf. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburn. Warner Bros, Distibutor, 1999. Film.

The Backstreet Boys. Millennium. "I Want it That Way". Cheiron Studios. 1998. CD.

In class writing #7 Schermerhorn

1.This video was about Glen Beck's opinion on how video games are teching kids to kill. He backs this by saying video games evolved from teaching soldiers to shoot people durring World War two. The tone in his voice is discusted by the video game Grand theft auto and the horrible ways to acheive winning the game by having a prostitute or lighting a police officer on fire; these actions that kids see as normal in games, Glen Beck believes is runing children.
2. In his statment about the horrifying game he stated that the game began with teaching soldiers to kill. First, the military used paper targets with body figures on them then began using simulations. The video game, as Beck proclaims, originated from these simiulations to help soldiers be more comfortable with shooting a real human being.
3. In this video Glen Beck is enthusiastic about the horrifying aspects of the game, Grand Theft Auto, and how awful the detriment is to kids. His voice is overwhelming and extreamly biased. He continues to only focus on the sex and prostitutes and mearly speeks of the killing of police officers. He attempts to say that this video game is teaching all children to be killers when really only kids 17 and up can buy it without a parent there. He is preaching about his views without having any solution.

In class writing #6 schermerhorn

Honestly, I really don't know that much about music piracy, other than what the reading covered. I know that there are sites like limewire and putting peoples songs onto their own ipod, but I wasnt aware that it was an issue so big that artist could see the effects in their income. I have never bought music, I just downlad my friends itunes on to my ipod. I never really thought about how much it could damage the indsustry. I realize that people want everything "free" but if everyone gets everything free then no one will have the ability to make a living.
I read How to Save the Music Buisness. The author really feels in his heart that the music industry is slowly going down the drain because of music piracy. He wants to make people aware of their actions and come to the realization that the music consumers love may disapear beacaue the artist are not getting the income they need. It does support my opinion now that I am aware of the issue, he truly changed the way I will get music.

In Class Writing #5 Schermerhorn

She portrays herself as this optomistic free spirit. Her photos are either outdoorsy or with friends. She quotes alot of music or says things like, "Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right." Her statuses are qorkey and witty. She wants people to view her as a person you want to be around, someone who would make you smile and always have a good time. Her posts are always agree with this image she is setting for herself, her friends will leave posts talking about how much they miss her simle and goofy ways.

I am using a loner computer so the ads are aiming for a Virginia Tech college student. One advertisment is for Campus Cookies, that company is located in Blacksburg, Virginia usually college kids are the ones to order these cookies. The next advertisment is for housing near Campus for the fall semester 2012, this once again is aimed for a college student who goes to Virginia Tech. This ad is not aimed for my likes directly but for a more broad range of people. The next ad is about playing Marvel "to help save the world" this is definently not directed toward me considering I have never even heard of the game Marvel until just now. The last advertisment presented to me on this page is about a webiste that can make math easy. I particural am good at math so this ad would not attract my eye in any way; plus the word math on facebook probably gets overlooked quite often.

Schermerhorn Blog post #5

1. Rosen's overall argument is that in today's world networks have given people the ability to share with millions who they are as a person and how they want people to portray them.

2.The audience of this article would be anyone who is caught up with the digital technologies. I know this by the examples she refers to like  WELL, Friendster, and Orkut she just expects you to know what she is referring to. She does explain WELL a little more in detail but if the viewer is not technologically up to date they would still be clueless on the matter.

3.Rosen is credible because it is her own opinion. She doesn’t particularly state facts she is more or less stating the obvious truth you could find out yourself. 

4. Rosen is very biased but not in a way that would push a different opinionated viewer away. She is biased in the fact that she believes technology has changed the way people present themselves. For instance she says, "today, in the world of online social networks, 

the oracle’s advice might be show thyself." She is biased in the belief that networking has changed the human species.

5. I love the way she rights this, pulling in history into the new technological generations comparing and contrasting the different aspects of how people share themselves online; this makes her seem more credible. I completely agree with his article I also believe that networking has changed people, not for the better or the worse, just changed in general. The way people write, talk, and present themselves.

Schermerhorn blog post #4

A drink with the ability to make your life into an adventure seems empowering. A drink that can flow through your body, from your head to toes, overwhelming the body with that good, free, and optimistic feeling seems extraordinary. A drink that turns an ordinary day into a day that the world is a place of full of happiness is remarkable. This is Lipton Tea. Well, at least this is how it is portrayed in its advertisement. Humans strive to be happy, healthy, and daring. The world is engulfed with so many negative affairs it slips in to the lives of everyone.  As Aart Van Der Leeuw once said “The mystery of live is a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” In the Lipton Tea advertisement the maker is suggesting a way to escape the everyday routine of life and escape into a world of pure happiness nothing more nothing less.

               The music played throughout engages the mind to feel “good.” The beat is positive, almost uplifting. The rhythm makes the listener want to move, get active. The woman’s voice first grabs the attention of a female, because we are expecting her to say something geared toward women, but the way she speaks it toward a man. Her voice is serene yet has this tone of being strong, she says, “I belong, to all that I’ve been through.” This way the commercial grabs both the female and males attention. The upbeat song sets the mood for the rest of the commercial, allowing the viewer to get the mind set of happiness and sink into the advertisement allowing them to take a breath from their everyday routine; just like the girl is doing in the add.

               The woman is a model, tall, thin, has perfect hair, and an earthy look about her. Her clothes are casual and simple yet stylish compared to everyone else wearing suites, conforming to their everyday routine. This also appeals to both men and women. It appeals to women because majority of women strive to look as she does; just simple, yet perfect. It appeals to a man senses because she is, well, hot. Men see her as something they can’t have yet the male comes up to her whipping her away on his motorcycle. This gives men hope that if more women drink Lipton Tea more women will be up for any adventure.

               As she is drinking the tea her body begins to turn into a pallet of leaves, water and light, almost as if she is glowing of happiness. A look of fulfillment and delight come upon her face as if it is the best day of her life. The music then becomes more upbeat and brisker. She then released a butterfly, representing celebration, lightness, and transition; the transition into becoming a free spirit. This is something everyone wants in life, the ability to just live and not worry about work, road construction, and traffic. Lipton Tea gives you this. She begins to walk across the street and spots a male on a scooter. This once again appeals to both female and male audiences in the fact that women will be drawn to his gorgeous facial features and males will have hope that they could swift, a woman like her, away.

               They both look free, free to the world around them. They pass a little girl with a face mask on. This little additive creates such a large part to this commercial. Masks are a way to hide the true self, as if it protects you. The little girl looks at the woman on the scooter admiring her beauty and glowing ways; take away by the majestic woman and man with pure happiness on their faces. The little girl is the only person in the entire city crowed that even acknowledge this beauty, everyone else is immersed into their routine. The woman on the scooter waves to the little girl showing her compassion and enjoyment. This is now the little girl role model in the fashion of the way to live life as an adventure.

               They begin driving away on the scooter out of the city and the narrator says, “With the goodness of fresh picked tea leaves, water, and sunshine.” As she says this they go through a tunnel and on the other side there is a beautiful mountain seen with the ocean, giving the viewer a since of awe. This pureness is now radiating not only through the woman but thorough her surroundings as well. This feeling of “good” becomes stronger. The narrator explains why she is glowing and full of tea leaves and water, this is all the tea consists of pure ingredients. Before the viewer can make an assumption about the tea being natural and good for you the narrator says, “New 100% natural Lipton Ice Tea.”

          This video was posted on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FFQ6Qq91bM

In class writing #4 Schermerhorn

There are images of students who have either achieved something or are working hard on a project or computer. In every picture the students seem happy and interactive in some way. They use Virginia tech maroon and orange showing Hokie spirit. They also use blue on the sidebar to contrast the maroon and orange to direct you to other sites. The Virginia tech site is very easily navigable, and if you can’t find what you are looking for there is a search box in the right top hand corner. The headline says Virginia tech, invent the future; this is the biggest text on the screen. The website also has quick links and my VT. This homepage would either appeal to people researching the college or students that already go here. I go to the homepage if I’m searching for any information on tech that I do not already know. The homepage says that Virginia teach is a place full of students that love what they do and how they are accomplishing their degree. The site says that Virginia Tech is a place to “invent the future.”

In class writing #4 Schermerhorn

There are images of students who have either achieved something or are working hard on a project or computer. In every picture the students seem happy and interactive in some way. They use Virginia tech maroon and orange showing Hokie spirit. They also use blue on the sidebar to contrast the maroon and orange to direct you to other sites. The Virginia tech site is very easily navigable, and if you can’t find what you are looking for there is a search box in the right top hand corner. The headline says Virginia tech, invent the future; this is the biggest text on the screen. The website also has quick links and my VT. This homepage would either appeal to people researching the college or students that already go here. I go to the homepage if I’m searching for any information on tech that I do not already know. The homepage says that Virginia teach is a place full of students that love what they do and how they are accomplishing their degree. The site says that Virginia Tech is a place to “invent the future.”

Schermerhorn Blog post #3

I Googled rainforest frogs.

1.     The first site that came up was http://rainforest-australia.com/frogs.htm, this is a site referring to the frogs in Australia’s rainforest. It contains facts about the deferent species, along with their scientific name and a picture. The second site contains photographs of the rainforest frogs. It is similar to the first site in the fashion that is has the picture of the frog and a link underneath with the name and scientific name of each species. This site although has rainforest frogs from around the world. This site is http://travel.mongabay.com/topics/rainforest_frogs.html, it does not seem as reliable as the first, it contains a lot more advertisements. The third site is a slideshow of frogs with little fun facts under each picture. This site is http://kids.mongabay.com/slideshows/rainforest-frogs/, it is another page from the previous site. These results are fairly similar in the idea that they give a picture and some information about rainforest frogs.

2.     I chose to have my roommate Google rainforest frogs as well. I was really surprised; she had the exact same results as I did. I guess they were the same since we both probably Google the same kind of words considering our classes are mostly the same and we visit the same sites.

3.     Doing this experiment I was really surprised that Pariser’s argument was not supported. I think that the individual search is a good thing because it usually gives you what personally you are looking for. Personalized research impacts our research in only showing the user their views, but that is usually what we want to read anyways.  

In class writing #3 schermerhorn

1.      The image of the man and woman wearing similar clothes and the text “good Work Sister” at the top shows the equality between the two genders.

2.      The purpose is to inform women of their new role and acceptance in the workforce, the text “we never figures you could so a man-sized job” is creating a sense of amazement in the abilities of women in this era, they are also congratulating them in their ability to get so far.

3.      The audience would be women who are in the workforce or are thinking of joining, the ad is setting a sense of welcoming from the men in the factories by the smile and expression on his face.

4.      I believe the creator is the government or big companies trying to recruit women to the workforce.

5.      They appeal to logos with the text “America’s women have met the test,” if other women can meet the requirements why can’t you. This ad appeals to ethos by creating a sense of ethical appeal in wanting to do your part, to help do a “man-sized job.” Last but not least the ad also appeals to pathos with showing that everyone needs to help do their part to have victory.

6.      With the culture context women in this era were supposed to stay home with the kids, cook and clean; this ad is defying all odds stating that women can equal men in the workforce and industry jobs. 

Schermerhorn blog post #2

Digital Natives have been conformed to a school system that does not fit our current generation and generations to come. I more or less agree with Nicolas Carr, I believe that the internet is changing the way the human mind works. Not only Google, but the internet as a whole, is making our attention span shorter and destroying our capacity to think on our own. We need a school system that teaches kids to think on their own before conforming to society becoming digitally literate.

The buildings would be more welcoming, with a lot of windows and inviting colors. This would create an enjoyable atmosphere where students would look forward to spending seven hours in. Each classroom would have one teacher to every ten to fifteen students creating a classroom where each student is involved. The subjects would be the same as they are now but you wouldn’t be graded on busy work and test. Students would put the material to use with projects expanding their knowledge, not just working to pass an SOL. When students work to pass a test they just do what needs to be done to get by, that’s why the internet has become so depended upon. Google thinks for students so they don’t waste time brainstorming or truly creating their own opinions. I do not believe the problem is what is being taught, it is how teachers are expected to teach the material.

Nicolas Carr believes Google is rewiring the way we think and diminishing our attention span, but that is not the only thing making humans stupid. It’s the ability to learn information without having to put time and effort into it. Students learn information, take a test and never revisit the information they had just obtained. That is the true problem, the material covered throughout high school is vital to understand simple things in life. Although not everyone will use geometry or writing stories with their future jobs, it still makes that individual better-rounded. Students need to learn, obtain, and put into action the material taught in school.

blog assignment #1 Schermerhorn

1.I always had been the person that is behind when it comes to the new technology out. I was the last of my friends to get a cell phone, laptop, even camera. I’ve always tried to not start relying on technology because I truly believe it will one day be the demise of the human race in some way. Whether it’s our health, or learning abilities, or even just life itself, but I won’t get into that. The most technological device my family owns, well to me, is probably our IPad; and Microsoft Word is reassuring me that this is a new technology because it isn’t yet a word in the spell check dictionary, unlike “IPod” which is considered a word. When my parents brought home the IPad I looked at it kind of confused, like it was an alien from a different planet or something. I honestly didn’t even know how to turn it on much less use the IPad to its full potential. I’m not the type of person who is going to read an instruction manual, I’ve gotten through my entire life not yet using one; the IPad was not going to defeat me. I just continued messing with the IPad until I got use to using it. It still amazes me that my finger can be used at a mouse. I finally figured out how to download apps, I’m not going to tell you how long because it is kind of embarrassing, but I downloaded games that’s the important part. If it wasn’t for my determination to figure out the IPad the phone I just got would have taken me three times as long to figure out, I also would have had no idea how to use the mac computers at the emporium. My parents’ buying the IPad actually is a technology that I consider a defying moment in my ability to adapt to other technologies in my life.

2.There are many similarities, not in the experience I just wrote about but in my life for sure. On the digital literacy online Molly wrote about how she used AIM and Myspace. I actually laughed out loud it brought back so many memories of how into my profiles I would get. I would literally spend hours deciding which song or background color I should choose to shoe “who I really am.” Unlike Molly I did not use the internet to creep on boys I had a crush on or girls I didn’t like. I always used technology in a positive way.

3.The digital literacy narratives that I read weren’t exactly informative on their opinions of what being digitally literate means. They just simple wrote about their use of technology through life. I on the other hand truly believe being someone who is digitally literate just gets technology. When I say the get technology I mean it comes easy to them they can just look at a digital task and do it, no questions asked.

4,Each statement I made on the ability to be digitally literate is simply an opinion. There is no fact or wrong or right answer. I have come to this conclusion through the experiences in my life where people older than me have taught me something new with technology. These are people who are not the “digital Natives,” I am. I am awful with technology we just don’t go well together. For instance I didn’t even know how to set up my printer or turn the alarm off on a clock in my dorm room so I just unplugged it. I have to be taught to do these things; I am not digitally literate even though I am considered to be digitally native.

In class writing #2 Schermerhorn

A. Hey! You should get facebook so we can stay in touch better and you can put up all those pictures from senior year and summer they ring back so many great memories.

B. You should get a facebook so you can make a group for our class, we could post questions or out of class experiences that would be informative to your subject. You could, if you had the time, post our homework assignments or interesting videos as well. You can also get back in touch with old students you had or even family members on the other side of the country.

C. Hey mom, I’ve missed you! It would be so much easier to show you my pictures and new friends on facebook we could also send messages on there. I check it a lot more frequently I also update it about once a day as well. You can also make sure I’m satying in line while I’m here in college, I’m sure you would love that J          

  with oceans of love, 

  Lillian

In class writing #1 Schermerhorn

1. I use my cell phone as my alarm clock and the weather station, check my emails, facebook, scholar, hokiespa, used an iclicker in biology, projection system and sound system, elliptical at the gum with an individual tv screen and place you can plug in your head phones, the bus to get to the empo and all the computers there

2. Technology is any new found device that makes our lives easier, ability to get jobs done faster, it expands our ability to discover new information, and travel to places faster and further.

3. Instead of going outside or looking out the window to see how the weather is i just simply go to my home screen and there is the forecast. Everything use to be printed out or at least in hard copy, but now everything is online. Spell check has made my spelling awful and so is my hand writing. I can also google thesaurus and use larger words instead of using what I really am thinking.

4. To be digital is to use the new technologies that are out, to be up to date on the technology side; like smart phones, tablets, ipads, and kindels.

5. Being a digital native is to be born in a world with technology; cell phones, computers labtops, gps's, even ipods.

6. To be a digital immigrant would be a parent or grandparent trying to use these technologies to advance there knowledge into the 21st century, tempting to transfer there lifestyle.