Reflect On The Difference Between Blog3 And The Etiquette Essay .

Let me tell you that there is a very big difference between the e-mail that I send to my friend and the one that I send to my teacher. Both of them were about the same problem, a bad grade that a teacher gave me and I believed it was unfair. When I wrote the e-mail to my friend Alicia I just grabbed my keyboard and the I started typing all my reasons why I desirved a better grade and how much time I spend studying, all of those things. When I was typing I did not have to worry about grammar or making my paragraphs long or anything like that. But when my teacher said that it was going to be for a teacher, I was so scared cecause I might not know all tha steps that we are suppose to followed but I sure knew that it was not going to be like my friend's e-mail. First of all you have to write a rough draft just to know what your are going to talked about. Then I went to the writing center and spend like half of an hour talking with one of the tutors about my draft. The tutor do not judge you they just listend and gives you better ideas. They also helped me make my e-mail longer and they show me how to find supporting details. They also help me with my grammar error, I went home and I started to write my e-mail like three times and when I turned it in, it was not perfect but now a least it look better. And for sure it does not look not even a little like the one I send to my friend. As you can see they are very different from each other. It took me less than 15 minutes to write an e-mail to my friend, but it took me almost four days to worked in the one that I was sending to my teacher. Maybe you are not going to believed me but I prefer the one that I send to my teacher because it looked more organized and more professional.

Reflecting On My Workshop Experience.

It was kind of confusing, because almost every one in my team are a little shy, so we did not wanted to read our e-mails out loud. But at the end we had to, so we stared reading our e-mail to the others. The workshop that we had helped me alot because, all the members in my group told me a lot of good things about my e-mail, but they also told me the errors that I made. Almost no one like to hear their errors but we relized that if we want to hava a nice e-mail we have to correct our errors. I asked them how can I make my e-mail more longer because I had just like three paragraphs with four sentenses each and it was not long enough. They suggested a lot of good things like, adding more details to my e-mail and be more specific about what I wanted to say. One of the opinions that I liked the most was the one about supporting my sentenses, that means that I have to show proof or evidence so that the teacher would understand and believed what I was saying. Also what I liked about the workshop was how important was our opinion to the other students. When one of the students started talking about hers, I notice that she has a lot to say, and I liked her e-mail, but I alsto have to let her know that she had made a little mistakes. She was so in to her e-mail that she wrote some feelings in there. And we are not supposted to be dramatic. I was a little shy to told her but, at the end I did it , what was my surprized, that she did not got mad or anything like that the only thing she said was " upps you are right I am mixing feelings and I am not supposed to, thanks Maria". So at the end I was ready to fix my paper and write those new ideas that they gave me . I really enjoyed working with them.

Summarize Today's Articles

All of them have something to do with internet. The first one was about "eHarmoney Biased Against Gays", it says that eHharmoney has only two choices in the first page "man seeking woman" or "woman seeking a man". Neil Clark Warren founder of eharmoney and a conservative chistian says that gays are some kind of different species, Warren seems like a sweet guy in those ads, but this line of reasoning is transparently convenient:" Gays are just such an exotic and curious people why I could never understand them! and anyway their reltionships are illegal so best to ignore them completely". Which of couse discriminate all gays by not letting them use eHarmoney site. But my question is why gay people have to go there? they should find another site, now there are a lot of different sites for gay people not just eHarmoney. The other articles about "Dating Detectives" just give us informtion about a matrimonial site where people like Sharman go. Sharman a 28 years old man met a girl on the matrimonial site, they spend months chatting. When their relationship reached an advanced stage Sharma decide to married her but, firs he hired a detective who quickly stablished that Sharma's online paramour had been seen checking into a hotel with another man. In my personal opinion I prefer to know them face to face and not by a webcam. The last article named "Getting Back To It" is mostly about all those people who after a marriage of several years one of them die or because whatever reason they have to start again. And there is nothing wrong with that but they say is both easier and harder these days. In some way, it's easier for people in their 5o and 60 than for those in their 20 and 30 to date, since they been in a committed reltionship before and know what is involved when it comes to marriages. But that is not a reason for them to date younger girls. They should be more aware of the consecuenses of a relation like that .

Reflecting about today's experience.

It was a interesting discussion, the one that we had on wednesday. Talking about sending a e-mail to one of our teachers letting them know that we deserve a better grade. It is difficult than it sounds, cause I do not even know who I am going to send it to. It is not like just writing a e-mail for a friend of us, is very different from that, you have to al least follow a few steps to make it sound serious and professional so the other person can take it serious too. I loved that way miss Crawford gave us an example of our coming e-mail assignment. She used an example of a girl sending e-mail to another girl telling her that she needs to live her boyfriend alone. You had to see how easy she make it. But like she said, you need to go direct to the point and show some detail or proofs of what you are saying, so that the other person will know that you are being serious. And let the other person know exactly what you want and why. At last she explain very carefully the meaning of CC and BCC. It is funny, because I have a lot of friends who I usually send e-mails to them and I did not know what those two words were, but now I do. So now that I know what those words are, I am going to use them more often, so I can get use to them and use them if we need to. Now I am starting to like this class more and more. I know that I said before that I did not like to do almost every thing like assignments at the computer but, if we think at this is better for us, because in the way we could be more familiar with different staff and the most important thing, we have to be prepare for the future that includes technology. Do not forget that this discussion was one of the best ones for me.

Discussion of the two articles we presented.

At the beginning of the class I was very nervous because I was thinking in all the students who will be there asking a lot of question and what if I forget every little word I read about our four articles? It could sound very ridicules saying that I not use to this kind of presentation or saying that I am too shy to speak in front of the whole class, maybe I do not look like a shy girl but I am, that is why our team take some time to prepare all the small details about the articles. Believed or not I spend like one or two hours texting with one of my team members and also with the team leader deciding which and in what order we will be present the articles. It sound kind of easy but it’s not because you have to focus in the author’s article and hardest part of it is getting the most important points. At the end we figurate out what the author wants to say with this kind of articles. So when the teacher said that we were going to present our articles, it’s funny but Angel and I wanted to go away, because we were very nerves. At the end we decide to go and present our work, I was going to be the first one to speak. I felt my voice shaking but I controlled it, and I said what I tough were the important points of my article. Then all the members of my team talked about theirs and it sound like if we had practiced this presentation for a long time ago. When we were done talking all the other students in the class started to ask a lot of questions like a predicted before the presentation , but it make me felt kind of fine because if they were asking question it was not just because of the points but also because they are interested in what the future and technology will bring to all of us and how we can prepare ourselves. So for me this was a great presentation and I hope they liked it too.

Summarize the two articles assigned for today.

In our discussion that we have today about the articles that were presentated by the third group today, we talked and compare all the differences between how people is changing their way to write because of the technology. I notice that we have diffent points of view, some of them look at this technology as an easier way and faster too to do things but, I disagree based on things that happend to me lately when I am texting to a friend is easy to text but, when some of my teachers ask me to write something in my notebook is hard to do it because I'm always trying to use the same short words that I use when I am texting and its a bad habit. But like one of the girls said you just have to know when to use it and when not to use it. There are also good thing about it, in one article it says that people who has more skills are the ones who get the jobs because in this time a lot of jobs ask for technical skill so, we need to know al least something about it. What I do not like about our discussion was when one of the students talk about one University who is offering Ipod to convense the students to enroll to their campus and then they said that it has a GPS so they will know every little place that we go. I totally desagree with that cause like a young lady I think we have not that we need but we have to have a time but ourselfs . But it was a great discussion and I love it cause you should see all the different opinions between the students about technology , but at the end every single one of us will need to learn something new do not forget that this is just our present but a different future of technology is waiting for us.

Reflecting on today's discussion

Today in our class, when my teacher was speaking she gave us a lot of lecture and discussion about future events and she mademe think about the importance of being in a group because we can help each other, but I didn't like that all our assignments have to be done by computer because not all of us have the opportunity to work in a computer. One thing I liked about this class, it's that all our assignments and test are in the schedule, so that I will be able to be organized and be prepare with a week of anticipation. Sometimes I have some problems to understand some of the themes and I am sure I will need some extra tutoring but with the links that Miss Crawford offered me at the PALS account, it makes it much easier to get involve and develop my essays.I do not feel comfortable typing an essay in the computer and my reasons are the following: first because I need glasses and it's kind of hard when I spend too much time in front of the screen and second because I can concentrate even better in handwriting than in computer. I feel confused about the changing schedule between the classroom and the lab. Sometimes I forgot that we have to meet at the lab and I usually get late because I went to the classroom. And talking about my grades, I'm kind shy and that will be a problem when I want to participate or to talk in front of the class. I have to be up to date with my assignments given to me in the schedule so I can prepare more. And how I am going to do that? I am going to follow my teacher's rules.

Dear: Alicia

Alicia, remember that last week i spend almost all my time studying for our final test. I did not went out for the whole week because I decide that my test was more Important than having just a good time. well just imagine my self sitting in my room by myself trying to understand those hard questions and reading all kind of book that will help me understand those things in a easy way to solve them. One of those day, was my bestfriend birthday and she want me to be there with her and I did not went because I was focus on my books. Guess what the big day was yesturday at 8:00 and I was the finish to start the day but when I start reading all the questions I relized that I did not know any of them , because I have studied the wrong material so as quickly as I coul I stand my self up and I told my teacher all the problem, she did not gave a chance even that it was not my fault it was hers cause she gave me the wrong study guide. I felt so sad and dissapoinment at the same time, but i just went back and try to solve those problems but it was just a waste of time. I can solve even one, twenty minutes later she gave us our grade and there was mine a big, fat zero. You can not believe how but my heart was feeling about that, is unfair you know the list she coul do for me aleast is giving me another chanse is was her fault not mine. Girl i hope you understand why i feel so sad and i won't forgive her for making such a big error with me. Bye talk to you later.