IN this post I will be sharing some old post with you guys and some of my thought on it and reflecting back to the first day of class to the last

for my first post I will be hyper linking a post where I see improvements needed. The post I choose is reading like a writer/ and by islands I mean paragraphs. I chose this one because it was my very first blog post and like any other blog post it was pretty bad. with he skills I have now I realize in this post I was pretty vague and needed to be more specific. I could’ve went into greater detail on why I thought the things I thought in my commentary post. Maybe argued it a little more and had the readers actually know what I’m trying to say and have a better understanding about it.

commentary : In the article by Island I mean paragraphs I found it very hard to read because I couldn’t follow it. I’m not sure what the articles point was so its kind of hard for me to comment on it. I’m not even sure on if I read it the right way or if I even followed it correctly. it was kind of difficult to read because i wasn’t quite picking up on the directions. i’m guessing that the author wanted us to some who connect to it in some sort of way, but its hard to tell when all you have is a paragraph of instructions to read. I tried again this morning but nothing showed up.

a place where I improved would have to be the seeing ourselves through technology post 2 I picked this one because I think I did a great job with the citing sources. It may seem like a silly thing to get excited about, but it was my first time siting my post and I think I nailed it. MLA is something I struggle with so writing the post and nailing the citing made me really excited to continue doing it. Most people struggle with citing sources so when classmates would come to me for help it made me feel like I was smart. I also notice that I did a better job about explaining my point and not cutting my thought of mid sentence and starting a new one. I did a better job with my commentary as well here is the post I’m explaining.

Commentary : in chapter two the author talks a lot about filters. Author Jill walker Rettberg talks a lot about filter that you can see with your eyes and some that are in a rhetorical since. like coffee filters you use them to keep the grounds out of your cup, but if you look at it in a philosophical way its so much more. wit coffee grounds you essentially putting a threshold between the thing you want and the thing that you don’t much like when posting online you wouldn’t want your fans or followers seeing something they don’t want so you put a threshold on the real you and the cyber you comes out.

a place where I was most confident would be with the summaries I write. Just because I’m good at remembering information I take in, so it was supper easy for me to write the summaries. another place would be when I switched it up and did a key term note. I was pretty scared because I’ve never done them its always been the same two things or 3 things. which you can view by clicking on the link. I’m most proud on how much my commentary changed for the begging of the semester to the end of it. MY last post had examples and explanations for that example. which you can view down bellow

Commentary: I thought it was kinda weird how Rettberg used the term visual expression of identity, because to me I’d have to disagree i think they represent us but not as identification. If you’re like me my profile picture is of me holding a CPR infant doll to my face with the caption “my child” on it so I don’t think I identity myself as a CPR infant doll lol. I also think it is weird how she brought up the fact that you have to see someones feed to analyze them, because who is just going on Facebook and thinking. HMMM who can I analyze today. It’s sounds really suspeicous and creepy if you ask me, or it could be the fact that it is 3am in the morning and I just got home from work and am very sleep deprived but still trying to finish my notes for tomorrow.

What I have gained from this course is how to properly write a reflection and how to apply your own thoughts to someone else work. What I mean by this is being able to read someones else work, understand it and provide feed back from your point of view. I learned how to site my sources and give credit for what I’ve taken and applied to my own thoughts. I will apply these by continuing to site sources and read like a writer. I will continue to read things and not just read the but read and questioned them and think about how it connects to everyday life, and or other articles. This class has taught me that there is more to reading the just words and print. You have to be willing to sit down and think about it.

The mentor blog I chose to look at this week is a Riddle BLog. I Choose this one because riddles are like poems except you have to figure stuff out at the end. om this blog you can find a bunch of pictures and other things as well looking at this blog its not much of a riddle blog verse a blog that’s a riddle you have to figure it out kind of as you go that’s the weird part about it. you kind of have to figure the blog out, but besides that it is a cool blog to look at. you get to see what they’re up to and stuff like that. The went on an Easter egg hunt this weekend which is always fun.

this poem was basically just a fun poem I wrote. I tend to get sick of winter a lot so I wrote to express how I felt about it being winter 4 month in a row.in spring you can be out doors without having to worry about getting frost bit or too cold to go outside. I like spring because I’m more of an outdoorsy person who likes to just be in nature and its kind a hard to do that in the winter. I love the smell of flowers and all that the only good part of winter is the snow ball fights and the hot chocolate. some people say allergies but my allergies are year round.

when reading these blogs I see the difference in interest threw their eyes. starting with carmen’s blog is a fitness blog on here you learn the true value of motivation and how to stick to your work out. She talks about what kind of food to eat when you work out and the importance of discipline. Carmen does a good job of explaining the importance of food and how to fuel yourself through it. on her blog you’ll also find that she give you some examples of the food she eats to fuel her workouts. I think what separates her blog from other s is that she gives examples and she doesn’t just say stick to this stick to that. connection with the audience is what is key.

Long Dao’s Blog on here he talks a lot about the mechanic program at rctc. his blog talks about how he is completing his generals at rctc and how it is his first year. He also talks about his transfer options and how he has to have 30 credits to transfer. He tells us that this is the requirement for rctc., but how he only needs 30 and 6 or the 10 goals to transfer. he also talks about some statistics about the program. He also tells you that the required credits for this program is 124 in order to graduate with a degree. HIs blog does a great job of explaining what you can expect when going into that program.

on Asucena’s Blog is another fitness blog but it also speaks a lot on wellness as well. This blog talks a lot about the advantages of wellness along with fitness. On this bog you can also find that the author made it like an example as well she posted some machines that can help with wellness as well and fitness too. On this blog she touches on many things like making a workout schedule but making sure you stick to that schedule. She gives some helpful hints on how she choses to tone herself while giving a quote and a nice explanation on that quote. she gives good advice on resting your body and making sure you stick to your the rest. Your body can only handle so much of what you do. wouldn’t want to over due it.

I wrote this blog when I was actually in my very first relationship.it was to me what seemed like love at the time and I was so young I couldn’t explain what I was feeling I just knew I felt it, but I quickly got my heart broken once I found myself a month or so later and him as well. We both quickly learned that love or our love was more of elementary school love like how you love graham crackers or peanut butter or waffles things like that. To some people it may seem like a silly poem but for me it was written from the heart. The poem is also a play ok questions because LOVE really doesn’t have a definite answer to it. It’s kind of abstract if you think of it. No one has a definite answer in what love actually is. They have an answer on what they think it is but not what it is exactly because the truth is love is what ever you want it to be

I wrote the poem below because at the time I was in a dark place. You know you have some off days and some bad days and I wanted to remind myself that the bad days don’t out weight the good ones. At the time I was having troubles king friends and being comfortable with myself and who I was as a person and it seemed like poetry was my way out so I wrote and wrote and wrote and seemed to feel better after words hope you enjoy

Bianca Harris

Bonnie Robinson

03/28/19

Reading and writing critically 1

When you take a selfie do you think anything of it? When you post pictures of your Family, Friends, Etc do you think about what it means? You may not have an answer to the questioned asked above, but Jill Walker Rettberg does. According to the article “Seeing Ourselves Threw Technology.” When you post photo you are making a visual expression of identity. To me I think that it’s a pretty good way to describe selfies, but to go as far as saying that it’s a visual of our identities I wouldn’t think that. I wouldn’t say this, because some photos are just things that are randomly posted. I would say that the things that you post have somethings do with your identity but not you as a person. Rettberg mentioned that artist show themselves in all their art , and its true one of my favorite artist is Pablo Picasso I reference him a lot but he is a great artist to reference, because in every art piece of his you feel something in it whether its his blue period or cubism you feel what he is going through. I think that all in all reading this chapter it gives me a lot to bounce off of, and opens your mind.

Rettberg, Jill Walker. “Seeing Ourselves through Technology.” Seeing Ourselves through Technology, Palgravepivot, 2014, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F9781137476661.pdf

Digital self-representation: The act of representing ones self

Digital self-representation: The act of representing ones self threw technology?

Race can affect what you post?

you need to see someone feed in order to understand them

profile pictures are a visual expression of identity

Commentary: I thought it was kinda weird how Rettberg used the term visual expression of identity, because to me I’d have to disagree i think they represent us but not as identification. If you’re like me my profile picture is of me holding a CPR infant doll to my face with the caption “my child” on it so I don’t think I identity myself as a CPR infant doll lol. I also think it is weird how she brought up the fact that you have to see someones feed to analyze them, because who is just going on Facebook and thinking. HMMM who can I analyze today. It’s sounds really suspeicous and creepy if you ask me, or it could be the fact that it is 3am in the morning and I just got home from work and am very sleep deprived but still trying to finish my notes for tomorrow.

I’ve taken a good 16 hours to think about the article we read in class and I would say that to me when it says filters all that keeps coming to mind is coffee filters. Coffee filters crazy right, but it makes perfect since to me the coffee filter is designed so you wont have coffee grounds in your cup. Now to break it down more. Coffee ground would be everything you don’t want people seeing like bad acne or your true colors. Like who you really are inside. The filter would be the way you choose to funnel that stuff out or the things you don’t like about yourself, and the coffee would be the perfect picture that you think you’re supposed to look like or think like. I know that my understanding isn’t the same as everyone, but like I said it makes the most since to me.

Commentary : in chapter two the author talks a lot about filters. Author Jill walker Rettberg talks a lot about filter that you can see with your eyes and some that are in a rhetorical since. like coffee filters you use them to keep the grounds out of your cup, but if you look at it in a philosophical way its so much more. wit coffee grounds you essentially putting a threshold between the thing you want and the thing that you don’t much like when posting online you wouldn’t want your fans or followers seeing something they don’t want so you put a threshold on the real you and the cyber you comes out.

Connection: the best thing i can connect this to would be snapchat. snapchat because you see a lot of people using filters with their snaps. looking at it in surface area people think that the filter is funny or silly sometimes maybe cute. they may send one trying to goof off with their friends, but what if that s not the case ? imagine a world where everyone was comfortable it their skin and they didn’t need to put “TOUCH UPS” on photos? Do you got it? Good! Now imagine the complete different thing and you have todays society. i used this connection because to me it helps me understand it better people use technology for conformation and acceptance.

Work Cited

Rettberg, Jill walker. “Seeing Ourselves through Technology.” Link.springer, Palsgrave Macmillan, 2014, link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/9781137476661.pdf.