Preview/Trailer

Like many other students have mentioned, I am not sure how I would like to construct my preview/trailer. However I have come up with a few early ideas that I may develop. Seeing as though my topic involves the evolution of the student through the use of multimedia, I am considering showing the affects of programs such as instant messenger and its affects on student writing. I may be able to use examples of instant messaging shorthand such as "lol," "jk," and other abbreviations during my trailer. This coupled with music and other examples may show how the multimedia author has grown and evolved through time. I am considering using an old sounding instrumental song while showing words such as just kidding and laughing out loud; and using a futuristic song for the words "jk" and "lol."

Brainstorming: what I want to do my project on

I'm really not sure what I want to do for my final project. Originally I thought about writing about how multimedia has changed education and whether or not it has helped or hurt students in gaining a better education. More specifically I could write whether or not the use of multimedia in school has help transform students into better writers or if it has hurt their writing skills. For instance I have heard many teachers talk about how instant messenger and other forms of online communication has hurt students spelling and grammar. On the contrary, the internet also has many examples of writings that can better a student's skills.

Tenner Response

After reading Edward Tenner’s Technology Review of “The Rise of the Plagiosphere,” it made me think of the meaning of originality. Tenner writes about the different ways technology has increased the detection of plagiarism in the form of word for word verbatim as well as paraphrasing. He points out three ways of detection: web-crawlers, text comparison software, and “techniques for identifying no verbatim similarity between documents to make possible the detection of no verbatim plagiarism.” Thus in the future the use of plagiarism will be highly detectable. However, what is really an original piece of writing? Over time the chances of people using the same phrase or two in a particular paper will arise. Is this coincidence or is this plagiarism? If I write in a blog that I cannot wait to start my day today because it’s beautiful and sunny; and another person writes the same sentence on their blog a couple weeks later is that a coincidence or plagiarism? That’s why Tenner’s review makes me think of our research question. What is multimedia writing originality?

My first blog

My first blog!

My earliest memory of using the web was when my older brother signed me up to manage a fantasy football team. I remember the strong emotion of pride in myself for finally using the internet. I was probably only twelve or thirteen years old and was not to familiar with the web like I am today. I thought that by using the web I had grown up a little bit. Although I probably got my butt kicked in my first year in fantasy football, it began a life long hobby of mine that I cannot imagine life without.