collaborative writing project

This project sounds interesting, but I'm not sure how I feel about writing something like a story and everyone adding in a page or so. I am not very good at being creative with writing, so if I had to write a page for a story everyone in the class would read and write part of, my part of the story would be really lame. But I did like the website we looked at where there were all those choices on what we could write about, like the multimedia scrapbook. That would be fun to make, and for my last year of high school, it would be really cool. Also, I saw a thing that you can make comics and characters, that would be more fun too, it could set the story up and the setting more I think. I would rather do something like that than a story. Or even poetry might actually be kind of interesting to write, but about what ever we want to though. I am not a very strong creative writer, but writing somewhat useless poetry, who knows what might come to me to end up writing about.

focused freewriting

The future of communication video was weird, but mostly true from what I took out of it. I think it was posted in 2007, which makes it like three years old, and they talked about some futuristic things happening in the coming years, like one of them, in 2011, that's next year! To me now, it doesnt even seem like it is the future. But I feel like the future with all the companies buying out other companies--like amazon buying out yahoo, I just think that the bigger companies will continue to buy out the smaller ones, which is no good for our economy or for our smaller companies. I don't really like hearing or learning about the future, it scares me. And most of the future is only technology, and I cannot imagine like with more technology than it has right now, I think we have enough, if not too much.

email etiquette notes

-meaningful subject line.
-standard punctuation, spelling, capitalization--way to check spelling, write into microsoft word then paste into an email.
-clear, short paragraphs and be direct to the point.
-be friendly and cordial, not very many jokes.
-respond within a reasonable time frame.
-trim back old messages.
-don't send emails that may hurt your reputation.

focused freewriting

I have seen this video before, it's really weird to see all of the statistics about our world and the technology. our media has become very dependent on the social market, of online whats the word, communications. how facebook and youtube are the most popular and the most users is weird, because five years ago, barely anyone knew what those were. i don't know how i really feel about the super hi-tech way our world is becoming, i like the tradtional way, just like how the video said "it used to be we searched the news, now its the news finds us." that is so true because the news will appear on our facebook or internet homepage, while before we would watch the news or read the newspaper. i think it is kind of sad about how the news paper barely gets read anymore I'm sure, when there is the internet, no one really needs the news paper.

freewriting activity

this morning I planned to wear shorts, not realizing it was pretty dang cold out....45 degrees! not cool. well it was cool, cold, but oh well. today is supposed to be almost 60 degrees with lots of wind. lame, but its warm so i still wore shorts. hah, ever since i was in the beautiful Florida, i cant bring myself to not wear summer clothes. tonight i am going bowling with some friends. tomorrow is my cousin's (who I'm not that close with) confirmation...but i figure, she never comes to anything of mine so why should i go to anything of hers? but i will probably end up going anyway cause i have nothing else to do. i dont know what to write i dont know what to write. i dont know what to write, i cant believe we have less than two months left of school. its crazy, but im so excited to be done. i dont know what to write. the noise of everyone typing is kind of annoying, this will probably get old...
dont judge me. haha.