Blog 5- By: Marco Conte

The name of the first podcast that I listened to was “Middle School Art Teacher”, and this podcast talks from a teacher to teacher point of view. You have one teacher speaking to others about teaching techniques, blogs, news, and just daily events at school. The second podcast that I listened to was “Sonny Rollins in Conversation”, which is a podcast that allows me to listen to an autobiography of a jazz artist named Sonny Rollins. After listening to these two podcasts, observations that I have related to this course is from the first podcast, it relates perfectly to our unit on blogs and podcasts because this shows, how lessons and techniques can be taught over an audio recording and how significant the use of podcasts and blogs are becoming to people. The second observation that I noticed that I can relate to the course is throughout the period of this course, we have to read about many autobiographies, but with the creations of podcasts who needs to read when people can have the opportunity to listen to someone’s life then have to read about it. I would recommend this podcasts to people who are interest in these types of things. The reason for my decision is because not everyone enjoys autobiographies or the life of being a school teacher. I would only recommend these to people who enjoy these topics.

By: Marco Conte

activity #1 - Blog 4

Name: Immigration’s Katrina

(Controversy) http://www.radioopensource.org/

Two observations I made from reading this blog is the situation with immigration in The United States Department of Homeland security. Many people, hardworking and good people, looking for a chance to build were a victim of raids and deported to their homelands. Their lives are in utter distress because they can’t live where they came from because of poverty or other reasons, and they cannot reside within The United States because they are considered illegal aliens. It is a difficult situation for people because they feel like they have no rights and the government can do whatever they want with them, including throwing them in detention centers without hearings and straight deportations. The connection with this in terms of our course is simple. People who go through these tough times will eventually write about their past and their stories in the coming times. Whether through publishing, podcasts, or weblogs, these will be personal narratives, their life in a journal. People will utilize this technology to write their journals, giving students of the future and people knowledge about things that come easy. Many of us take simple things for granted and we don’t realize the liberty we have. For some, they have to earn that freedom yet far from doing anything wrong, that liberty is taken away by government policies and policing.

I would highly recommend this blog because I’ve had friends who have had problems with immigration, from detention centers to deportation. We should be informed and up to date about current events because immigration is one of the hardest and strictest form of government policing after September 11^th.

Blog #4

I chose a technology and education blog, which is called “Education/Technology - Tim Lauer” One observation from the blog is the outdoor classroom which Lewis school attempted to build. The school needed $800 to complete the pouring of the pad with concrete but the school couldn’t raise it. Luckily, Lakeshore Entertainment was filming a movie titled “Untraceable” In Portland. One of their sets is in the Lewis neighborhood and they needed a place for cast and crew to park their cars while filming this week. Since this week was spring break in Portland, it worked out that they could use the school’s parking lot, and in return they covered the cost of the concrete and pumper truck. Another observation was “Jott” which is a feature that allows you to call a phone number, and leave a voice mail message that is then transcribed into an email and sent to you or to others in a text or e-mail. This blog is connected to the technology segment of this course because aside from talking about Lewis’ schools outdoor classroom mission, it talks about technological advancements such as the “Jott” feature which was previously listed. Yes, I would recommend this blog because it is interesting and it keeps you updated on technological advancements, which I consider fairly important to know.

Blog # 4-By Marco Conte

1) The blog that I decided to do was from the website http://www.blogscanada.ca/politics/, and the the name of the blog was, "Why not a drug policy just like our anti-smoking efforts?". This blog discusses the political view on smoking and drugs and also the effort that is being made to try to and stop the usuage. 2) Two observations that I made to from this reading to the course is that (i) is the use of being untruthful. Even though the stoppage of tabacco and drugs is trying to be stopped, I honestly believe it is just a waiste of time because when people have an addiction it really isn't that easy to take them away from it. I just believe that these political views are just being stated to make the people hear what they want to hear and make it like an effort is being made. (ii) This blog relates to this course because over the term we learned about some of the authors that had drug problems and needed help with these problems and their addictions. (3) I would recommend this blog for many others to read because it just goes to show how the use of drugs and tabacco addictions are so largely spread that no matter how hard an effort is made to try and stop these uses, their will always be people that throw their lives away because of these addictions.

By: Marco Conte

Blog 4

1) This blog is from www.mindspy.com. It discusses the matter about suicide. These postings contain some who want to commit suicide or some who know loved ones who went through suicide cases. 2) One thing that was general in all the blogs was that everyone who posted an entry lost an important person close to them. All the posts had links to this course in one-way or another. People desperate to commit suicide find the solution to end all the problems are to end your life because everything ends with ones life. As well, the articles we discovered on website evidently give the equivalent reasons to commit suicide. 3) I would definitely suggest this blog to others because after interpretating these posts they will understand that ending your life is not the solution to all the problems in life

Blog #3 – Robert Chiussi

Blog #3 – Robert Chiussi

This memoir is without villains. There is a thin line between being a villain and not a villain. I believe that the things that her father did were not right, but it does not make him a villain. I believe that a villain is a person who goes out of their way to be a certain way. A villain is a person who was brought up and raised to be a better person but chooses not to. There was not enough background given to explain why he did the things he did. Everybody does bad things in there life it does not make them a bad person. We saw one perspective of a character and unfortunately did not get to see their side, or another view on things. I am sure that many people think I am a villain but they don’t know me and judge me on one thing I did which may have seemed horrible to them. They do not know my reasons and maybe I was doing it for the better of something or someone else. I do not believe there is a villain in this story however I do believe that he was in the wrong for the choices he made.

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I think that the fear of confrontation and her father are two elements or villians. First, the willingness or the strength to put up with something so wrong and bizarre is a challenge and when your father is involved, it's beyond abnormal. Though never heard, incest does occur in this case with slyvia. Over the course of time, i think her talking about it and actually realizing that this happened even possibly into university, she finally builds enough strength or courage to fight this monster living inside her. Not only is the father the villian here but the entire predicament and the effects add in to the depressive state. It's sad to hear about things like these, but if no one talked about their experiences, many more would go unnoticed and without measures being taken.