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Hi all:

For this blog comment, first read the materials by Huther in the reader and online; (note the use of a semi-colon here to join to sentences that might otherwise stand alone) then please select a quotation from the reading (we started doing this in class yesterday), paste it into the comment box, and then write a short paragraph about why you think this quotation important.

While this reading is a bit dense, as Maira said, it gets clearer and picks up steam as it goes along.  I think it has interesting material for a possible paper one.

Oh, please remember you entry might not immediately appear when you post it.  For some reason, my program is asking me to OK your comments before they are posted.

Nick

Hi all:

For this entry, please first download to hard copy, read and mark up the online reading, "Advice about Installations Already in Place."

Then pick what you think to be the most important PARAGRAPH in the article.  You won't have to type in this paragraph.  You can cut and paste from the online article to the blog comment.  Then write a number of lines about why you think the paragraph important.

As I said in class, I think these writings by Huther may be more "write-about-able" than the materials on Phineas.  So take some time looking at them.

Thanks.

Nick

Hi all:

The rough draft of paper 1 is due this Wednesday, and the paper itself is due this Friday.  Now is the time to get started.

Write the first two paragraphs of your paper 1.  This may change of course. But now is the time to get started.

Also do the reading "The Sentient Interpretation of Biological Evolution," from The Empathic Civilization, 69-79 in Reader. 

Happy writing and see you Monday.

Nick

Hi all:

By this point you will have read "Life in Two Dimensions" and "Being Nobody" from Greenfield's ID:The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century.

As with previous comments, please locate a quotation from either of these readings, type or paste it into the comment box, and write a paragraph or so explaining why you think this quotation important.

Thanks.

Nick

Hi all:

For this comment, read "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" 

Cut and paste to the blog entry what you think to be the most important paragraph or few sentences, and then write a bit about why you think this important.

Also for class, be sure to download and print out the article, and bring hard copy to class.  Set your printer to fast or economical to save on that ink.

Nick

Hi all:

When you have completed your deep reading of "Is Google Making Us Stupid" and "The Juggler's Brain," write a two paragraph response to what you have read with the general title "What Do I Think (about what Carr has to say).

Nick

Hi all:

Start paper 2, at least a page.

Try not to summarize what you are thinking about, but pretend to actually start the paper.

Bring hard copy of the page to class.

Remember this paper need be only on the articles by Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid" and "The Juggler's Brain."  You could reference also if you wish the Utube video of Carr we watched in class.

What is he saying and what do you think he is saying?

In a way your paper will constitute an exploration of your "deep reading" of Carr.

Nick

Hi guys:

Do ONE of the following:

1. To the best of your ability and in your own words (in a paragraph or so) summarize Power's argument about being connected and being disconnected.

Or:

2.  Explain what Powers means by a deep experience and give an example of it from your own experience.

That should get us rolling.

Nick

Hi all:

For this comment, locate a longer quotation (could be a whole paragraph) in the chapter from Hamlet's Blackberry called "Gone Overboard."

You can cut and paste the longer quotation from the online article into the comment box, and then write about why you picked the quotation.

We will spend time in class Wednesday running through the quotations you pick out.

Nick

Hi all:

Start your paper 3.  Write at least two paragraphs and bring hard copy to class.

You might want to keep in mind as you read and write one of those questions we formulated in class yesterday.

The most basic question was:  According to Powers, what are the effects of the new digital technologies (cell phones, the web) upon the quality of our lives (for good and/or bad)?

Thanks...

Nick