Is facebook good or bad?

This week I read the blog “Who Ya Gonna Call? ” this blog was written by Mr. Karl Fisch founder of the Fischbowl. This blog talked about a Business teacher by the name of Carolyn Orf. She is teaching her students about wonders of entrepreneurship. Carolyn Orf used facebook to find a guy she went to college with who started a few companies. Now a day’s many people find old friends using facebook, myspace, or things that are similar. But you may ask why you would want to have an account on facebook. Well you see they’re great ways to stay in touch with family and friends across the globe. I recently just got a facebook account. I soon began to realize how much I do love facebook. But I’m cautious about which people I accept as friends on that site. All people should be cautious when using sites like facebook or myspace. Well later on in the blog Mr. Fisch explained how Carolyn Orf was able to find and ask her friend Jason Shellen about coming into her class. He said yes and now is coming into her 5th period class. Anyone in her Business class, who doesn’t have any other priority during that period, may come to watch his speech. I find it cool how she was able to use this now common website to find her friend who she hasn’t kept in touch with since a wedding after college. So many people use facebook now that it can be technically called a common website. Karl Fisch at the end of his blog brought up a question though. He stated, “It's so darn easy that I'm wondering what everyone is waiting for?” That question right there is a good one. So I leave you deciding whether or not you want an account on facebook.

T-rex theory gets challenge by a fossil.

The T. Rex theory gets called out and challenged by a... fossil. The article was called "Fossil Find Challenges Theories on T. Rex" I read was in the New York Times. It was all about how the theory is getting challenged by something not alive. I wonder how that will do. The theory is “about the evolution of T. rex, which was about 5 times longer and almost 100 times heavier.” There was another predator before the T. rex who was roughly nine feet in length. But it only weighed 150 lbs. It was said in the article to live close to 35 million years before our “king of the dinosaurs” even walked on Earth. It was estimated to live 125 million years ago. But 65 million years ago the whole group became extinct. “The thought was these signature Tyrannosaur features evolved as a consequence of large body size,” Stephen L. Brusatte exclaimed. Then how’d did they become bigger than there so called ancestors? Wouldn’t that mean they would have to grow their skeleton to fit closer to the skeleton of the massive T. Rex. The “ancestors” of the T. Rex was called Raptorex. Well like people say “how could something so ‘small’ cause something so big?”

How students play school well.

I recently read a blog from The Fischbowl. The blog was called The Possibility of More. The blog was short but gave you links to some of the post that Jeff Krause put up that he is going to try to do for his American Literature class. I adore the topic sentence of the Possibility of More part 1. It stated, "As with all crazy ideas, it occurred at approximately 3 a.m. – the time when you can convince yourself that just about anything will work." It’s a great way to start a blog. Unlike how my blog just started. It’s true though if you wake up at 3 in the morning you’re bound to have at least one crazy idea. Something while I was reading just jumped out at me. It explained that kids will take more risks when they don’t have to worry about what grade they will get. This is true. As a student personally I’m bound to do more risks if I know that I get it wrong it won’t have a big effect. What I’ve heard a lot recently is how students know how to play the game of school. This blog like some of the teachers I have restated this statement. Just in a different way. This blog jumped out to me. I became very interested in it, which is why I'm glad I took the time to read it.

Which is better for your english skill technology or writting?

Is typing and using the computer bad for some people's english and writing skills? Maybe, well John Sutherland seems to believe so. He claimed that due to technology the "dehydrated language" is "bleak, bald, sad shorthand." While on the other hand Andrea Lunsford seems to think that "we are in the midst of a literary revolution." She claimed that before the internet most Americans never wrote anything down. Same with Michael Wesch's the Machine is Us/ing Us. In this he shows the many ways using the computer is easier in writing or in this case typing things down. Now a day's kids are mostly writing to an audience. But what i would love to know is the main difference in typing and writing. Besides the obvious writing utensils and keyboards. You'd still be writing or typing the same things down. The article was very interesting to me. Especially when it stated that "we think of writing as either good or bad." i thought about it wondering about the pros and cons and then i totally agreed with the statement. The whole entire video interested me because it showed the wonders you can do with a computer. But personally im torn between technology and just plain writing.