difference between the fake email and the email etiquette.

So what is the difference between the two emails we did. I am not to sure. They both had to be long. And we had to talk about a bad grade in class. So you tell me whats the difference.
We had two assignments to do in our English class. First one was the fake email to a friend, second was the email etiquette to the teacher. They both had to do with having a bad grade.
The fake email we all had to write on our blogs were to a friend. Which i wrote mine to my baby daddy. I value his opinion higher than any one else's. Which is weird i know. Any who, in the fake email I can act who i am. To be my self. Not to worry how i sound. Of course I do want to make sense and have my spelling right. But it does not have to sound right at all times. The language is also not important. You can say words you would not normally say to a teacher. No one would care.
The other assignment is email etiquette. Which we had to type up on paper. When in the email etiquette i have to sound mature because your writing to a instructor. Make sure my spelling and punctuation is correct. Which we all know i do not pay attention to any of that. And in this you cant just talk like you are friends. You have to get to the point and make sure its understandable. Instructor don't want to get bother by nonsense unless there a really cool teacher who wouldn't mind a chat. But otherwise no. It was hard to do this one. I mean I would feel embarrass if i was actually writing to my instructed to change my grade. I don't think i would do such a thing. So trying to come up with this assignments was new thing for me.

refecting on your workshop experience.

In my English class we were to read our essay out loud in our groups.I am in team 3 but I was to work with Team 4 for this. At the time not all of their team members were there. Listening to what there email etiquette was about made me realize that I am a very rude person. Theirs seem so nice and not like mine. I did not really know how to do this. I was outside my comfort zone. Being in a different group than my own that is. They are very nice people. In the group they really did not tell me any thing. Just that i could not use certain words and the first sentence i had was a big no no. I mean i did not want to critics any one and did not want them to do that to me either. I knew mine was not great. Listening to theirs made me see some ideas that maybe i could use.
At first mine was to emotional and very demanding. But when i went to the writing center one of the girls there made me change my whole story. And I went with it. It was more mature and in this one i was not rude. I am so glad, I hope I do not sound rude. But I might have been a little emotional again. I could not remember what we talked about. I have such a bad memory for every thing. And i could really just sum every thing i wanted in one paragraph. Which i knew that would lead me to a failing grade. After all of this I still dont think i would want any one to critice me for any thing. Or would want to read my essays out loud. Because i know i dont make any sense at all.

articles about online dating.

To be honest, I was thinking about doing that to find some one special. But was to afraid to find some one who... you know. Having a son makes me be very cautions. I cant just let anyone get in my life. So online dating is just to scary. But even then meeting people at a club is even more freighting.
In the articles we read were about the discrimination of not being able to select the same sex on some online dating websites.The reason eHarmony doesn't have the option for same sex is that this country its illegal for same sex marriages. And they do try to match people up for marriage. But there are many web sites that the gays and lesbian can go to. So there is actually no reason for any one to say its discriminating. But they do got a point, we all should be able to have one web site that every one can use. No matter if were gay, straight, lesbian, or even bisexual. Were all humans but we were just made different.
The dating detectives is the next article we talked about. Man, I know my boyfriend would love to use this on me. But he wont find any thing. Im not that kind of person. This article is some what like Cheaters the tv show. This genatlemen was on an online site where he would chat with people. He then starting chating with some one he found interesting. Soon anuff they starting seeing each other. They were prefect, but he thought it was just to good to be true. So he hired some one to follow her. Sure a nuff she was seen with another guy at a hotel. Then he dumped her. The detective business in India is growing in each year. Which we know its a good idea. Who wouldnt want to know if the person you met online is the person they say they are. Even if you have gone on dates with( thats if they live in the same city as you).
The two articles are about online dating. With different situations, that happen. We all one day might want to try this if havent found that one special some one. Or who has lost some one and just needed to find some one who can fill that gap. Just be honest and be yourself.

Discussion on Email Etiquette.

Well what we had discussed in class was our essay assignment. I think this assignment will be some what hard. Well what i mean it's going to be hard by trying to avoid you and your. I'm pretty sure I use those two words a lot. I'm really not liking that we have to go to the writing center. I feel that they might laugh or think that m y paper is stupid. Even if Mrs.Crawford said she will get after them. But I will probably using the writing center soon. Since I do have a writing assignment for theatre due at the end of the month. And I still don't know how to start it off. I haven't even read what I'm suppose to be writing about. I just got the script three days ago.
It was very interesting learning about cc and bcc. I never knew what they meant when I first got my email. I would always think that I had to put the same email of who I was sending some thing to on those. So I guess I would send that person three emails of the same thing. How embarrassing. After a while I ignored those. But since I know now what they mean then for sure I'm going to ignore them.
I am happy that that it will be double space. It will make my paper very long. And it will make me feel that I wrote a lot. Even if in truth I didn't.
And of course there should be at least three or more paragraphs in an essay. Which should also be six or more sentences in each. I know some of my paragraphs are of four or less sentences. But that's not going to stop me from trying to write more.
What I would like to know is in this email do we use Mrs.Crawford or can we make up an instructor. I would really like to make some one up. But if I cant oh well. I think it will be easier for me to actually know this instructor is fictional.
I just hope i do this essay very well. And of course get a decent grade for it.

two articles

i think it would be a good thing if 3rd through 4th grade would use Internet in the class room. Not only does it get them ready but it ll be a lot easier for them to type everything. we wouldn't be losing a lot of trees this way either. even though i also think writing on paper for your draft are better than typing and then retyping. it works both way i guess. in the article for AL gore he states that the education department saw that 30% of the student who used the Internet for there studies did much better the other students who didn't use it at all.over all the students who used Internet was doing better at school. having more detail projects, and just getting better grades. how you say being more creative.hes trying to get all schools to have computer for students to use. preparing the students how to use these kind of technology at school is his main point. with every job out there using computers is required. so with learning how to use the Internet at a such a young age will help every one in finding jobs with out a problem.
in the next article( new ipod rules touch off heated debate) its discussion whether its a good thing or bad thing to have i phones and ipod touch to be used at school for assignments.many schools are already using this technology. which the students find its very cool to be given the ipod touch or i phone. even if for the iphone you do have to sign contract with at&t in order to use this device. all the freshmen are required to at least have this device with them. many already do. some of the professors wanted to rule this out. they didn't like that they would have to change the way they teach just because they now have to use it. the students don't even have to show up to class they can just download the lectures on the devices. which would make class to seem a little easier. for me that would be a great idea to have but also a bad one. if my son is sick of course i would miss school just to take him to the doctor. and if i had the ipod touch and all i had to do was download i wouldn't miss anything. but that would also would make me want to miss class for no reason at all. so it goes both ways here.
in both articles there just trying to make a point on how technology and education will soon be a combination you just cant separate

Two Articles Tech Helps Students Adopt Good Study Habits and Reading, Writing,iPhoning.

The article of Tech Helps Students.. is about a university called Purdue. There using technology for signals in there grades. It took three semester before its 2009 launch. The way the students can see this signals by logging in to their blackboard course management accounts. There they can see what signals their teachers send them. There are three signals; which are red, yellow, and green. Just like the traffic light, so its very easy to understand what they mean. If a student gets the red light signal it means you are failing; I will have a session for students who need help. The yellow light signal is that the students in between of passing but almost failing. If green light signal is what they get then they are doing very well and get compliments from the teachers. This program doesn't let the students know in the middle of the semester but in the first 2 weeks. Students are very happy with this program. Its helping the students know that they need to work hard; knowing if there doing bad or good.
In the article for Reading, Writing, iPhoning its about Abilene Christian University. At that university they are giving t-shirts, orientation packets and either an iPhone or an iPod touch. But their not the only schools doing this. There using these devices to to pep up the class discussions. The students who pick the iPhone over the iPod will have to pay for AT&T monthly service bill. The students who leave the school early will have to pay a pro-rated amount for the devices. Some teachers are thinking that by getting these devices they might be able to hold some class session this way. The students will be able to check their syllabi and receive emergency alerts.But of course there are some resitctions on the devices. And of course the students are happy about getting these devices.
So as you can see both of the university are either using a program or getting devices for school. In every school students will use technology. But in these schools they have special things for students who go to those university.

Reflecting on todays discussion, your group and upcoming assignments.

Having a group presentation will be intersting.But isnt it to soon, we just started school last week.Well this is college and not high school.And since I've been out of high school for 3 years I'm not sure if my writng skills are any good.But I hope we do well on wednesday. My group is very strong, we all have what it takes to do very well. Six is alot for a group to have, but having that many is also a good thing. We all have are different ideas that can help one another. But we might also have some disagreements. It will also make as learn more about each other. I know in our syllabus it says we discuss about email etiquette but for some reason I dont remember this. That is our first assignment for the class. Well its not actaully the first one since we do have blogs to do and the presention that group 3 and 4 have to do soon. Im guessing the email etiquette is for us to learn how to properly make an email. Its the social behavior of one self. Or so I think since in my sociology class we watched the Men's Restroom Etiquette on You Tube. It was very interesting and very funny as well. It was about how guys should use the restroom. So I some what think how were suppose to do that assignment.Looking more and more on the syllabus it seems we have planty of wrinting assignments. Which you should know this is an english course. These writing assignments look a little hard for me. So were going to see a video clip on You Tube. That should be interesting. Some of these assignments I wont have to do alone since I have a group. There all mostly group assignments. Which makes me very happy. Its a group effort and we should all help each other.

The Email.

Hey Elijah,
How's it going? How is school going for you?As for me I'm very upset.I really thought today was going to be a wonderful day.But today was not a good day at all.So you know that assignment I worked so hard on.Well I really thought it was perfect. And you thought it was good.As I was in class thinking I was going to get a good grade on my paper.Ms.Course hands me my paper back with a bad grade that I had to look twice.Can you believe her?I worked my ass off on that assignment.Just look on what kind of grade I got.After class I spoke to Ms.Course and explain to her that she made a mistake and should look it over again.She of course just smiled and said,"I knew you would ask me that.The grade I gave you is correct.You just have to work a little harder,Iris."This is bullshit,right?For me to work so hard on this shit.I gave that assignment a 100% of my time or even more,just to make it better.I should have thrown the paper in her face.But I know that will get me in trouble.I don't know what to do.That grade was suppose to bring my grade point average up in this stupid class.But instead it brought it down by 2 points.I was doing so well in that class.I think she's just out to get me.You remember Drew, right?Well she gave him a better grade than me.So now he's laughing it up and throwing it in my face.I wish I could punch him in in the face.That would make things worse.So I guess that's not a good idea.I just have to work harder like Ms.Course said.Then on my next assignment I'll get a worth wild grade.I'm sorry I went on and on.I was just so upset that I had to tell some one.I feel so much better now.Thanks for taking my torture of reading this.Talk to you later, bye.
Your Friend,
Iris