You Tube

I didn't realize we had to post about You Tube also. Yesterday I was listening to the radio and Rocky Allen was talking about Lilly Tomlin and the I Heart Huckabees movie. There is a video posted of the director going crazy and screaming outrageous obscenities at Tomlin right on the set of the movie. So I checked it out. The director was crazy. I also watched Hillary Clinton sing the National Anthem. She wasn't very good. Today I went on b/c I reread our assignment. I typed in field hockey and up popped pages and pages of videos on field hockey. I watched some of them. I think You Tube is neat. It is another source of information that is available to everyone who has a computer. It would be fun to browse through if a person has ALLLLOOOOTTT of time.

Hopkin Green Frog

Well that was interesting. I dont know if i really believe the story or how much i believe. The idea of a meme is the internet form of the old school game telephone. The story is constantly changing and being spread across the world via the internet. The information can be in the form of rumors. The meme on the "60 minutes" piece was surprising because I view 60 Minutes as a reputable source of information. But I dont know where to find the truth. There is even a wikipedia page on the Hopkin Green Frog. Why did this issue become so large scale across the internet? Where is the orginal news story?

I think a meme is something valuable to tell my students about becuase it will show them why they shouldn't believe everything they read.

Reading

I hate to say this but I am not a reader. I have never enjoyed reading. My mother used to take me to the library but it was never a hobby I enjoyed. I was an active child. I enjoyed playing outside.

Reading did not come that easily to me. Now I am a Reading Teacher! Go firgure. I encourage my students to read and i let them read things they enjoy during silent reading time b/c if i dont let them pick, they wont read at all! I help my students pick books that are on their level and books that they are interested in. I try to make reading fun and interesting for my students.

I dont mind reading off of the computer and i think that technology has increased the time I spend reading. i will read the news online. I email people often instead of talking to them on the phone. I believe all the typing and emailing I do enhances my writing skills. In the New Literacies book they made reference that the computer has become the telephone and the telephone has become the computer. I used to call people to say hello and what's up now I send an email or a text message.

The Matrix

I was not thrilled about having to watch The Matrix. I had seen it once before but I didn't remember it because I didn't like or really understand it. I went over to my sister's and watched it with her and my brother-in-law. He likes the movie and was able to explain some things to me which helped. I am just not a fan of Science fiction, alternate reality, computer mumbo jumbo kinda stuff. I just can't relate to all of "unreal" or "impossible" things this movie discusses, but then when you think about it is it so impossible. I probably won't be around when or if any the technology of the movie becomes available.

Last Week

I was on vacation all last week which was nice. I had a good weekend watching the Daytona 500 with my friends and family. On President's Day I went skiing with my sister. We didnt last to long, but it was fun.

I ordered new skis online. I payed extra to have them by Thursday b/c I was going skiing again on Fri/Sat. The skis arrived on time but to my dismay they were ugly. What can i say? I am a girl and I shop by color. So i had to pay to ship them back. A few days after I shipped them back they were returned to me!! ugggg. That was annoying!!! I took them back to the post office and we resent them. I didnt have to pay anything extra.

I worked on my graduate work basically all day on Tues, Weds, and Thurs of last week. That was not too fun much but I wasn't doing anything else.

I went away with my friends to Lake Placid this past weekend. We had a great time. Everyone liked the hotel i found. The skiing was tough for me b/c im not in shape. My legs were burning. We ate and drank plenty. We went to an Italian restaurant for dinner Sat night and the food was fabulous. The pasta was homemade!!! I had the most delicious tortellini with vodka sauce I have ever had and a bottle of wine!!!

It's started to snow Sunday and i was hoping for a snow day. Well my school was not off but I didnt go to school b/c at 10pm we called the fire dept. We had a chimney fire. The house was smokey, the roof was damaged and the chimney is shot but thankfully everybody is ok. So we can't use the wood burning for the rest of the year. That is how we heat our whole house.

So this week seems to be going by fairly fast, thank goodness. I need to watch The Matrix for my grad class and i am not looking forward to it. I didn't like the movie the first time i saw it. This time I will be watching for media so i will have another focus.