Class Blogger Reflection

     My Class Blogger experience was pretty good. I noticed that it made me focus more in class and I definitely retained more information because I took notes and basically had to go through everything twice. I focused more on the main points that we went over in class. Most of the class time was taken by the power point and it was pretty monotonous. I basically just brushed over the topics that we covered. I feel if I went more in depth to every point that we covered in the PowerPoint that the class blogger post would have been pretty boring.. I also briefly went over the game we played in class. I could have definitely written a little more about it but I feel like I got the best parts in my post. If I were to cover ever question that we did it would have been lame. I chose two gifs for my blog post. The first one was chosen because it related to the class and I thought it was funny. I chose the second gif because I was salty about not winning the jeopardy game. Being class blogger didn’t really change my perspective of the class. If anything it just made me more alert in class because I knew I had to cover everything we were doing. Overall I think this is a positive experience and maybe now ill pay a little more attention in class even though I’m not the class blogger.

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Class Blogger

     We started with the class blogger from the class and everything went along smoothly. Ms. Lang addressed a few questions and then we quickly moved on.  Ms. Lang goes on to tell us that she has a dream where she says “And We’re” and we respond “Moving on” so we all played along and made her dreams come true. Ms. Lang then asked us to take our MLA handbook so we could start learning how to format and cite properly. We're told that we all need to be focused and that it is going to be “boring and terrible” but she reassured us that if we made it to the game, that we were going to have a great time. She then decided to show off her New Mexican roots and give us a little motivation by saying “Si se puede” (yes we can) for the non so-flo kids. 

     Although the MLA lesson was going to be boring, Ms.Lang recommended that we all buy a handbook because they can be extremely helpful. She even has hers from her freshman writing class.  We then moved on to the lesson and we are told the best way to learn citation is to do citation.  Next on the agenda was a super exciting MLA PowerPoint. The power point was gone through at a very fast pace. The lesson included formatting details like spacing, heading, margins, and font size. Additionally, we went over how to cite properly when given certain situations like not having an author or how to cite depending on the kind of medium you’re using. After finally getting through the PowerPoint we moved on to the game. Teams 2 and 3 were ahead of the pack most of the game and unfortunately team 5 was in the negative for most of the game. Team 2 landed on a daily double and made the rookie mistake of not wagering everything on an easy 10-point question. Unfortunately, final jeopardy got the better of most teams and team 4 came up with the W.  Their prize was ten points of extra credit and some candy. ( BIG WHOOP) :’(

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This is an image of a crashed airplane from San Francisco's International Airport. The picture shows how badly damaged the air craft is because of the crash. It is also trying to show exactly why the plane crashed.  The intended audience could be people wanting to know about causes of airplane crashes or even just weary travelers reading up on accidents. The intended audience most likely has some prior knowledge on flight paths and common airplane behavior because the info graphic leads to charts comparing its path to other flights. Even though anybody is really able to decipher the graphs if they really wanted to. The medium is a photograph. The genre can be considered “Accident Photography”. There isn’t a caption but there are just some letters and numbers shown on the broken plains wing. The style is very formal because its just documenting something that happened. Nothing about the photo shows any visual metaphors.

Path Of San Francisco Crash Shows Plane Was Too Low, Too Slow (INFOGRAPHIC). 2013. Photograph. By Jan Diehm. The Huffington Post, 8 July 2013. Web. 4 Mar. 2014.