Think Before You Act

This week I read Which Campaign is More Effective by Karl Fisch. The first campaign was LG’s Give It a Ponder Campaign which stars an actor named James Lipton. It was about how this kid was texting or “sexting” his girlfriend. Then he was going to send picture of his “junk” to her. Then he remembered that she was a twitter addicted and stopped talking to her because he didn’t want her to “tweet about his Petes”. So he stopped talking to her. I liked this one because even though the commercial is funny it is actually and a good reason not to send girls pictures of you “junk”. I think it was cool how they took a serious topic but made it funny a relatable. I know people that have got in to a lot of trouble for that and I think it is a big problem these days.
The second campaign was MTV’s a thin line campaign which is very different than LG’s one. This campaign is a lot more serious. It is kind of about those meth commercials but talking about a not as known topic. It starts out showing a kid getting a bunch of tattoos of things that people have said to him like loner, loser, freak, moron, faggot, nobody likes you. Most off his body is filled up with these words. Then he gets a text and tells the lady that he has another one and, it looks like its going to be worthless, and then says there might be room on his back. Its main slogan is that there is a thin line between words and wounds.
Most people say sticks and stone may break my bones but words can never hurt me. That is so far from the truth though. It seems like every day you hear about a kid committing suicide for being made fun of. It’s crazy how people don’t even think about what the people are going to do when you say something like “faggot” to someone. Some of the words I hear come out kids’ mouths these days are so horrible. Most the word that kids say they don’t even know what it really means. Both of the topics truly need to be talked about in schools today. I think they should start it in elementary, well I mean the kind of talk about but they don’t talk about the consequences. I hope the next time you or someone you with falls on either side of these situations thing before you act.

Makes Me Wonder

The video “This Will Keep You Thinking” tells a story about a professor of philosophy who was a deeply committed atheist and a young man who changed many peoples lifes. The teacher’s goal was to prove there is not a God. Some kids tried arguing with him but most were afraid because of his reputation.
At the end of every semester on the very last day, he would say to his students, “If there is anyone who still believes in Jesus please stand up”. In twenty years nobody had ever stood up. Then he would say, “Because anyone who believes in god is a fool. If god existed, he could stop this chalk from hitting the ground and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that he is God, and yet he can’t do it”. Every year he would drop that piece of chalk and it would break. Most of the students thought god certainly couldn’t exist.
Well a couple of years ago a freshman enrolled. He was a Christian and heard stories of the teacher. When he found out he was required to take his class for his major he was scared. For the semester he prayed every morning that he would stand up no matter what the teacher said. When the day came the professor said “If there is anyone who believes in god standup”. Everyone just looked at him shocked. Then the professor shouted “You fool!” “If god existed, he could stop this chalk from hitting the ground and breaking”.
He went to go drop the chalk, but when he did’ it slipped out of his fingers and just rolled down his body and it rolled on to the ground and it didn’t break. He looked at the student and just ran out the lecture hallway. The student walked in front of the class and shared his faith in Christ for the next half hour. All the students stayed and listened to the young man and how he stayed with his faith.
This story really touched me. I am a Christian but this story made me want to share the word. I just wonder what the teacher did after that. Did he start believing in God? Did he keep on making kids not believe? Could this experience have changed his whole philosophy? I really don’t get how after reading this you couldn't really believe in a god. Its funny how people don’t believe in god but everyone wants to go to heaven. I just ask to everyone out there, how can you not believe in god? All it took was one kid standing up for god for the chalk not to break. You can walk away with this story and think it was just a coincidence or you can see that it was destiny. That maybe it only takes one to show that there is at least a higher power.

Impotance of Collage

I saw the YouTube video, A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch. Dr. Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University. His work in digital ethnography has gained national and attention. The most visible project is his work on YouTube and a video entitled “A Vision of Students Today” that was a project with 200 of his students. According to YouTube, this video has been viewed close to 3 million times. It has made Dr. Wesch’s work a lot more popular. In fact, he was recently named the US Professor of the Year for Doctoral Universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Support and Advancement of Education. The video has a lot of facts about collage. It shows important characteristics of students today and how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams and what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. One thing really can to mind when the video said most kids well be at least 20,000 dollars in debt. I don’t know how they get out of that. In the end it pays off though. I also think it weird that most of them don’t use their textbook. I don’t know why they just don’t do everything with technology. I think a lot of kids mind set when they get to collage is to party and have fun. But in reality if they don’t come to class like the video says collage won’t be worth it. Your parents spend so much money and for you to blow it all off on having fun is stupid.

What Some Teachers Would Do

I read Who Ya Gonna Call by Karl Fisch. Carolyn Orf is one of the Business teachers at the school he teaches at. Her students are learning about entrepreneurship and starting a business. Orf wanted an entrepreneur speak to her students about their experiences. Then she remembered that she went to college with a guy that had gone on to start a couple of companies. She saw him at a wedding about three years back but other than that she really hadn’t kept in touch with him. She ended up finding him on Facebook. She asked if he’d be interested in Skyping in to share his experiences and do a question and answer session with her students. He said yes, and so they will be Skyping during her 5th period class on October 6th, from 12:14 – 1:12 pm. His name is Jason Shellon. He’s the CEO of Things Lab. He was an employee of Pyra Labs and worked on Blogger. I really think it is cool how our technology today lets us do things like Skype and still talk and see each other. I think it connects to me because it’s happening at my school. I thought it was great to see him take up his time in his busy like to do the discussion. I have to ask my self if I would do the same thing. It’s great to see teacher who love their job as much as her. A lot of teachers don’t care about their students enough to put that all together. So many kids now a days don’t see what their teachers really do or don’t do. I just want to end on this, thank you to all the teachers out there and for all the things you would do for your students. So the next time you hear someone says the kids are the future you know inside without you the past, present, and future would not be what they are. So truly this is a thank you.

Did Kanye go to far?

I read an article called Kanye West calls Swift with 'sincere apology' . Okay so everybody knows what it feels like to be put down. But not the way Kanye West did to Taylor Swift. Here’s a quick recap for what happened. Kanye West stormed the stage just after the first award, for Best Female Video, it was presented to Taylor Swift. He cut Taylor Swift off, grabbing the mic and protesting in support of Beyoncé. Then he said, “I'm sorry, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time," then he gave back the mic and walked off the stage. Well, my feelings on the matter are that Kanye shouldn't have gotten on the stage. Really Kanye, really who in their right mind takes away the microphone from someone who just one an award and says by the way your opponent should of won. That’s like a kick to the family jewels if you know what I mean. It was a pretty harsh thing to do for Swift and West. I hurt swift’s pride but now everyone pretty much hates west. This topic actually does hit home to me because I know how it feels to be put down. Also, I’m not going to lie I’ve put someone down before to. I have to say neither feels good. I have to give west some slack though because he did apologize on Jay Leno also he called her up and apologized. it wasn't the most sincere apology but at least he gave one. even though the only reason he apologized is because if he didn't he would be in even deeper you know what. But I have to leave you with this. Did Kanye go too far this time? And if so, can he recover?

We're in a Media Revolution

Hello everyone this week I was looking at Mr.Fisch’s Fischbowl and I found the post called “More Than Passing a Trend”. The post was about this video called social media revolution by Erik Qualman. That title just wanted to make me watch the video so obviously I did. It was kind of was like this video the machines are using us. It pretty much said how we are in a revolution and how its not just a fad its going to keep on growing. This video showed me how people are really getting connected. I really never thought how many people have a facebook our how many videos are on YouTube. It makes me really wonder if we are so connected know what it will turn into in the future. I really can’t even imagine. The thing that was most fascinating me the most though was that if facebook were a country it would be the fourth largest. That’s just amazing that so many people are using the web to talk. I thought that it was mostly the youth that used it but now I realize it is most of the world. There could be some consequences though like getting to reliable on the web. So people would not be able to talk in front of other people. Just must social skills could just go down the drain.

WEB 2.0

Web 2.0 is what the web has turned in to now. I watched a video by Michael welsh call the machine is us/ing us. It tell how the web has turned into web 2.0. At the beginning i thought it was kinda weird what was happening in the video but as the video went in it kept on getting more interesting. His video really made me think of what the web has turned in to. Like how we can talk to virtually anyone in the online world and really without web 2.0 the world wouldnt be the same. I guess to sum it up this video showed me how everything we can do and how we are building are future into something i cant even imagine.
I read an article the other day and it was called New Literacy Article by Clive Thompson. It was pretty much going against how people think texting an being online make your social skills worse and your writing skills worse also. I'm pretty much all for this article mostly cause i do both . Also because you are writing in front of a audience so it makes you better i think. Plus i think it the new era i you cant stop it.