First Listening Blog

Forgot to post this yesterday. Thank you Michael Kamer for reminding me. It is also on the website as is a link to the song on youtube.

How do your musical facts influence your opinion? What is the correlation between what you picked out from the song and your opinion? Do you have bias? If so explain.

First Reading Response Blog - Poverty

Read "Live Free and Starve" and "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" for 8/17. Write a blog contrasting the authors' opinions. Address your possible reader bias, and analyze each argument, ultimately agreeing or disagreeing with each argument or parts of each argument. Don't forget to use specific quotes to support your opinion and your analysis of each article. This is due to be posted by 11:59 pm on Tuesday 8/16.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E_kIN2Z4Lo - "Mr. Wendel" by Arrested Development (1992)

Used to rap and dance to this song in sixth without even a hint of what the song was about. The "pop" hits you first and the "song" hits you later...sometimes much later. "Go ahead, Mr. Wendel." Don't blog about it, just enjoy if you can.

Greetings & Salutations

Welcome! Your first assignment once you have created a gmail account and your own blog is to become a follower and a member of this blog. You are also encouraged to follow the other students in your class, so you can view and post on their blogs. Remember: I will be checking all blogs, so make comments appropriate. Have fun making your blog a reflection of you! And remember this is the computer age, and technology is our friend.

- "Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant." Mitchell Kapor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhS5WG9QbLM