I really thought the chat on Friday as something beneficial to the module. Not only was it something different to do in class, but it really showed how writing can change from formal to informal..and really informal..depending on what you are doing. Although I am sure all groups went off the topic of the quotes we were handed, I think it was a very good learning experience for a writing arts class.
Have a nice weekend!
Jen
Just wanted to say Hi, and see how everyone’s weekend is going! I’m home for the weekend, have to go to a Christening tomorrow.
Anyway, I also wanted to see what everyone thought about the chats on Friday. I thought it was a really cool way to conduct class. We got to talk about a lot more than we would in normal hour and fifteen minute class period, and it was interesting that we didn’t neccessarily know who exactly we were always discussing the topics with. So, just for the record, Dr. Wolff, I definitely think that was an awesome idea for class. 
Has anyone done the readings or watched the videos yet? That’s my plan for tomorrow while I’m in the car! I’ll blog again soon Have a fun and safe weekend!
-Darcy
After reading the articles, I definitely agree with Chuck on how scary teachers make plagiarism seem. Not that I have ever done it, intentionally, but I’m sure after doing research (especially on the Internet) and reading articles over and over again, things I have written in the past could be considered plagiarized. I also know of students (in my high school days) who would actually take whole passages from research they did, to create papers of their own–and NEVER got caught! As serious as it may be, and I understand if caught you can get into serious trouble, I feel it is really up to the teacher’s discretion on how much they would want to research each student’s information.
See you in class!
I think in every year of school that I’ve experienced, plagiarism has always been discussed in at least one or two classes. Plagiarism is a pretty big deal…it’s such a big deal that I’m too paranoid to do it…not that I would if I wasn’t paranoid about it, but you catch my drift. I thought it was really funny how the article mentioned a plagiarism site that offered a paper about plagiarism. Pretty ironic if you ask me. I agree with Darcy when she mentioned that there is so much information out there, that it’s hard to realize if you’re taking someone else’s ideas. Some people might plagiarize and not even realize they’re doing it, while at the same time, try to make sure they’re not doing it. It’s an honest mistake, right? And it’s funny to read about Napster because I haven’t heard anything about Napster since 8th grade, when Lars from Metallica made a big thing about it. What I got from the article was that Napster matters to writing because in the digital age, writing, or the expression of ideas, doesn’t have to be in the form of text on paper (that kind of sounds weird because you didn’t have to express ideas on just paper before the digital age, because you could do it through art work or things like that but i don’t know how else to say it). It can take the form of audio, and if you wouldn’t plagiarize, then you wouldn’t download music illegally. I do it anyway because it’s just too convenient to get the music I want to listen to at that very moment, right now. Usually though if I download some songs from a band, and I like them, I’ll go out and buy the CD. That’s why I bought the Killers’ album, and all of Pink Floyd’s albums, and even AC/DC’s…from downloading their songs from the internet.
-Chuck
Hey there. Just wanted to say that I like NetVibes too! I have been using it since Wednesday and I love it!
Also, as far as the articles go, I was surprised to learn so much information on both plagiarism and Napster. I was never really keen on what was going on with Napster, but now I understand why it is such a big deal when it comes to copyright laws and such. I always seem to get very heated when talking about plagiarism because it is so easily misunderstood. It is hard to realize when you are plagiarizing or not, especially on the Internet. If you happen to write one sentence that someone else has already published on the Internet, it could turn out to be plagiarism in another person’s eyes. Has anyone ever gotten pulled aside by a teacher for a situation like this? That happened to me in my Sophomore year of high school. An idea I had written in a paper happened to have been written by someone else on the Internet, and I had to have a meeting with a teacher to sort it all out. That really upset me. The Internet is so full of information and it is so widely packed with what other people have to say, that it is hard to realize if you are actually taking what someone else has to say. Ohhh, the world of the Internet! That’s it for now!
See you all tomorrow!
Darcy
Is plagiarism a growing problem nowadays or is it just looked at more critically? Thats the real question in my opinion. There has been minor and major cases of plagiarism since the first idea. Some of the greatest ideas throughout time are modified copies of other works. I am not promoting plagiarism because in my opinion we are not approaching the situation in the correct way. I feel like it a moral choice, if you feel like you can’t create your own ideas and you need to copy what someone else feels or thinks then thats what you have to do. I feel like you tend to lose yourself when you copy other peoples work. You lose a sense of self because the ideas and points that you are writing your name on top of are not yours. Other then the penalties that you will get from plagiarizing it will effect the future papers and projects that you do. Getting away with plagiarism is something like a drug in my opinion once you do it and you don’t get caught it seems alright in your mind to do it over and over. Overall plagiarism in my opinion is wrong so don’t go copy and paste my blog on your site and call it your own feelings and responses!!!!!!! LOL thats all for now check in this weekend for some more posts
-Kyle
Interesting article. What struck me while reading it was the way it was written. Very surreal and artistic. It reminded me of the novel, The Stranger, by Albert Camus. It was also pretty crude…like the description of Mr. Bungle’s clothes…whoa. I wasn’t too surprised when I learned the rape was virtual…because of the title and all.
- Chuck
Ok..random blog (sorry it’s almost 11:30pm and I still need to study for a test!)
I’ve decided that I’m really into this netvibes thing that we learned about in class today…I haven’t figured it all out yet, but it is now officially my homepage on my home computer! Haah.
See you guys on Friday morning!
This is my first post ever so don’t be harsh on me. My name is Kyle McCormick by the way just incase you were wondering. It amazes me how much deception can come from cyber space. When reading the rape article it was very surprising me to that it was all in the cyber world. The language was very interesting to read but it was very intense. The idea of rape in general makes me cringe.
Moving on to a semi-lighter topic but still one that upsets me is how these two guys and one girl can form a video blog to fool a massive number of people across the internet. I heard about Lonelygirl15 previous to this assignment but i never took interest in blogs or video blogs. I started by watching a couple of her posts or should I say shows because they are all staged and fake. It kind of upsets me that someone would intentionally fool people for no logical reasoning. Before finding out that the whole thing was fake, I thought it was a little suspicious that it was not a very choppy feed. It made a lot of sense when I found out that it was all fake because it put a lot of questions I had to rest. To end this posting I would like to just say to anyone out there that is thinking about doing fake blogging or staged blogging, don’t do it, although it was interesting it wasted a lot of people time and probably upset a lot of people in the process for watching all that fake footage.
Thank You for taking the time to read my first post check back later in the week for more insight…
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