Part I-

1. Pew Internet and American Life Project. 09-04-07

2. Scenarios On Digital Culture 09-04-07

3. Media Unlimited 09-06-07

4. Ender’s game 09-11-07

5. Ender’s Game*Blog 6 09-13-07

6. Blog #7- Responding to each other 09-18-07

7. Blog #8- Finishing Ender’s Game 09-20-07

8. Strange Days- 09-25-07

9. Blog #9- 09-28-07

10. Blog #10- 10-3-07

11. Slideshow- 10-07-07

12. Johnson and Video games 10-09-07

13. Leo@fergusrules.com 10-15-07

14. Wikipedia Article 10-18-07

15. Blog #15 10-18-07

16. “Participation” comparing with Jenkins 10-25-07

Elizabeth–Sept. 4- http://tremblaye.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/the-future-of-the-internet-ii/#comments

Steve—Spet. 6- http://steveo3256.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/response-to-todd-gitlin/#comments

Skrely—Sept. 6- http://didi1032.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/todd-gitlin/#comments

Louis–Sept. 13- http://louis336.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/blogpost-6/#comments

Justin–Oct. 1- http://greenj287.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/post-9/#comments

Aaliyah–Oct. 10- http://premjia978.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/12/#comments

Justin–Oct. 16- http://greenj287.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/blog-13/#comments

Part II- “In Todd Gitlin’s “Media Unlimited” he has many opinions on the media and how it affects our society. Most of them i can agree with and relate to. One that I do agree with is the fact that we can’t detach ourselves from the media. No matter what we do we are in some way connected with it and its pretty much impossible to avoid.”

 I like the point I made in this blog. It’s extremely true and has been supported by many of the different books and articles we have read and reviewed in class. This particular text that we read I found most valid and all of his ideas were supported with facts.

“Today in class we learned how to make our own wiki’s. We created, edited, and were edited on our own work. This was a very different experience and i found it to be very interesting. ‘ Creating our own wikis was a fun and new experience. It kind of gave us the idea of what it is to create, maintain and update a website. It added to our knowledge about the digital wild and what its like to be behind the scenes. “

Johnson’s way of thinking made me realize how playing this game actually affected me more than just my frustration in trying to figure out the defeat for the game. On page 40 he talks about collateral learning. This game forced me to make decisions and put my actions in order.”

Playing a video game in class actually turned out to be effective. Hapland cleared up a lot of Johnson’s ideas and made it clearer for me to understand. I think by doing more “hands on” things in the classroom it will improve the understanding of certain topics.

“I want my argument to be Society’s addiction to the media. I think that everyone in some way is connected to it and most become very addicted; whether it is to watching the news on a daily basis or being glued to the computer 24/7.”

Society’s addiction to the media is almost getting out of control. People revolve their lives around things such as TV, internet and cell phones. It just makes you think about how life would be today if we didn’t have this kind of technology.

“My group was very helpful in finding all the needed information to answer each question. Everyone used their books and knowledge about it and found different parts of each question to complete the assignment. Each person put in their own ideas and everyone else would just build on what someone said and as a group we were able to complete each question easily. “

I think group work in class is a really good method in helping each of us learn. Everyone gets a chance to share their ideas and critique or influence others. I can personally say that it helps me and I’m sure it does with my other peers as well. I like the fact we can each do a small part of the assignment then put all ours ideas together and still completely understand.