Final Blog Post

1. How does the revised version of our class differ from the first version?
- I feel the revised version is much more interesting. Including the blog and the wiki has made this class interesting and fun to go to. Not telling us our grades the whole time was a twist, but overall this revised version seems much better than the original one.

2. Which one do you prefer? Why?
-The revised, because of the reasons stated above.

3. What could be changed next time? Why?
- Only thing i would change is the whole not telling us our grade thing, it freaked me out to not know what my grade was the entire semester. Showing the progress in my grade frequently would have helped. But again, overall a great class.

4. What did you like/dislike about the Clark 111 classroom itself?
- The Clark 111 classroom was awesome. Really liked the whole technological aspect of the whole room. Made the class much more interesting and i found myself looking forward to going there before class often.

Assessing Assessments

The resources i still need to get:
1. More articles out of Mauk & Mets
2. Some of the sources i provided won't help me so i should find ones that will

Have i assessed my resources effectively?
- Probably not, i should take another look at them.

Resource Reflextion

1. How did you find your resources?
- I found most of them on google! Except for my interview (my sister)...she wasn't hard to find. She lives in my house. The book i found on the SJSU database website for the library. I later went to the library and found it to see what it was all about. The video, newspaper, journal, and magazine i just found on google like i said earlier.

2. How has research altered your original idea?
- It's given me insight on both sides of my thesis, it's given me more info on it than altered it Its given me opinions which are going to be very important in my paper.

Book Assessment (Facebook)

 Online social networking

 Sylvia Engdahl, book editor.

 Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2007.

This book is all about how social networks are a bad influence on kids and how parents should limit the usage of them. It bashes some websites like myspace and facebook by telling you there are sexual predators that find victims through online social networking and pornographers that expose children to obscenity at online social networking sites. Overall this book pretty much hates social networks and gives a one sided view. It talks nothing of the good things about social networks, only the bad. But it is authoritative because it was in the library and gives lots of info on the topic. I would use this in a paper about social networking if i wanted to see the bad side of myspace, facebook, ext. 

Personal Interview (Facebook)

For my interview i interviewed my sister:

Me: How often do you use facebook?
Sister: I check it on my free time, to see if my friends have left me a comment or anything.

Me: What do you like/dislike about it?
Sister: I like that i can communicate with my friends easily on it and that it doesn't take much to do it. I dislike that i don't always know who's looking at my profile.

Me: How did you begin to use facebook?
Sister: A friend made one for me, i didn't like it at first but i grew on me.

Me: Do you find it easier to communicate with friends now?
Sister:Definitely, i can see whats going on with them and leave comments for them to see later.

Me: Do you feel facebook is a good thing for college students?
Sister: I do, college students are very busy so its nice to have facebook and other social networks to be able to communicate with my friends quickly.

Me: Are you comfortable with people you don't really know looking at comments and pictures of you?
Sister: Not at all, i wish there was more security features on it.

Video Assessment (Facebook)

Although this video is obviously a joke it bring up good points in it's lyrics:

• "Theres an online world where I am king of a little website dedicated to me" - This is one of the reasons why facebook and myspace are so popular, its that persons own little space where they are "king". The personal nature of these social networks are very appealing to some.

• "Before the Internet friendship was so tough, you actually had to be in peoples presence and stuff" - Also a good point to the affects of social networks, people become less accustom to actually meeting with people face to face. Social networks to a certain extent make people lazy by people having mostly an online relationship with friends and having the Internet be the main way of communication.

• "I used to meet girls hangin out at the mall, now I just wait for them to write on my wall." -This is a sad but true statement about how some people are today. Again bringing the laziness point up.

• "If the internet crashed all across the land,or my facebook account was deleted by the man. Id carry around a picture of my face and a summary of me typed out on a page" -The song pokes fun also at what would happen if facebook went down, they said they would carry a picture of themselves around with a summery typed out. This wouldn't happen obviously but i think if facebook or other social networks went down people wouldn't know what to do, they have become so use to a online way of communication.

Overall this video is very humerus and bring up a lot of good points in it through the lyrics and graphics. These are not professionals that did this just regular people but i still think it would be very useful in writing a paper. The points they bring up in a comedic why would fit well into my paper. It may not be "authoritative" because it is from youtube and made by some dudes but informative non the less.

Newspaper Article Assessment (Facebook)

Facebook
Brad Stone, Dec. 7, 2007; updated Feb. 18, 2009

This New York Times article is not too interesting because it does not have an opinion but only states the facts like most of the other articles I've read about facebook. Its boring but still is a authoritative source because new york times is a major paper with respected journalists. It talks about the history of facebook from the beginning to the present and how it has quickly become a part of social networking. The article focuses on the financial success of facebook more than the social part so i would not necessarily use it as a source in a paper about social networking.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html