Best of the Best _ Kasey T.

Best of the Best: My favorite would have to be Tea and Weight loss Fact or Fiction. I am so stoked to find out that tea is healthy for you and possibly if you replace it other drinks for tea in the end you could see possible weight loss results from not intaking so many calories. I love tea and am always excited to find new ways to stay healthy.
Diebetes is a growing health related problem that is surging all around the world. I was very impressed by this article because how imforming it was also I have a really good friend who has delt with diabetes since we were in middle school. So I knew somewhat already about the effects.

Lauren Blake Proffitt- Best of the Blogs

I read several blogs and found a few that interested me. I particularly liked a blog about a leopard being afraid of a mouse that was feeding on its meat. It was a cute stumble and a decently written blog. I am going to be truthful and say that I really did not come up with any ideas for my future papers. I generally like to let those flow when the papers are assigned to me. I do, however, find Stumble Upon to be a very useful prewriting tool. If I were ever to get writers block, all I would have to do is stumble around until I found a topic. Then, not only would I know what I’m writing about but I would also have some information about my topic to help me write on it. The most important elements of writing according to my class mates seem to be for the author to somewhat know what they are writing about. If the writer does not have any background in the subject at hand then they should not have written an essay about it. Also listed under things of importance were all of the technical errors. Grammar seemed to be a big pet peeve of everyone and spelling was right up there with it. I don’t really see blogging as an effective writing tool as of right now but I do see its potential. It could potentially be used at a tool for other classmates to point out ones weaknesses and help me understand how to do whatever I am doing wrong better. It can also be used as a prewriting tool because if you find something interesting enough to blog about it then you may be able to extend that into an essay in the future.

The Best of the Blogs Jamara Cook

Best of the Blogs

After reviewing and analyzing my classmate’s blogs I noticed that some people like to blog because it gives them a way to express their different point of views and how they feel about a certain piece of art, picture, video, or article. On the other hand some of my classmates just give a very brief description of what they have stumbled upon, using words like “it” when there is no picture of explanation of what “it” is. I started to compare my classmate’s blogs from what I can consider one of the best to some of the worse. I will not say any names because if I feel that I was not all that great I do not want anyone to be offended or upset by some of the comments I make. Noting that I would not hurt anyone’s feels on purpose and I will not give harsh criticism I am just stating some of my opinions.

To me a good blogger is when someone takes what they have seen, interrupts it in their now words, and used past experience to make connections with what they have just learned. For example someone wrote that they always considered themselves to be a good samaritan and help people, but after reading an article he realized that he/she do not know if he/she wants to help everyone. But now he is not sure and is kind of questioning if there is good in everyone all the time. The title of the article is “We are all Dark on the Inside.”

On the other hand, some people just come across a picture and write things down just to get the assignment over with. I think a bad blog is when someone stumbles across a cute picture and recommend people to look at because it is cool or nice to look at. For example, someone wrote their blog on “it”. I have no idea what “it” is because they did not explain what “it” was. Since they did not post the picture the person could have at least told the audience what they were looking at or explained what they seen. Some people should take blogging a little more serious and at least describe what they are looking at and not just say it is cool.

best of blogs Kwame johnson

One of the blogs that I read as I was getting ready to do this “Best of the blogs” post was one that was written by Bradley King. It was a Helium post that was called “Is Facebook hazardous to your career? As I was reading through this one I found it interesting because most of everybody is on one of the famous social networks be it Twitter; MySpace, or Facebook. Thousands of people use these networks for personal, business or just as ways to meet new people. I know from personal experience that these sites are very hazardous because I’ve been caught is some very troublesome situation that have been “seen or heard on Facebook, being that my mother, father, & aunts and other family members all have Facebooks. Another thing I like about this blog was that he kept it short and to the point. He caught the audience’s attention from the start. By stating the title in the beginning, the reader already could understand what was to come. Also He used the main points that he read from the essays, with just adding the right amount of details to support them. There is a part in the writing where he states that there are different kinds of privacy setting which allow users a better way to “hide” or protect themselves. At the end Bradley states way that he himself would start off an essay using this prompt. I found this interesting because I have a hard time starting my paper because I can’t think of main issues to address. He stated that he would first let the readers know that these sites can be hazardous. By doing this it would get the point across right away to get the attention of my readers. After reading this, I found that reading this prompt could lead to some more topics that could be used to write a paper. One topic could be what effect do social networks have on society or maybe comparing two or more social networks and how they are different. By doing one of these types paper it could be helpful to parents how don’t not allow their children to have account on sites like this and maybe persuade them to change their minds.
I found that doing blog dealing with Helium and Stumble are helpful because it allows the writer to get out of the regular writing environment, and find different ideas. Stumble for instance takes a lot thing that you wouldn’t normally find while surfing the net. This could be helpful to the pre-writing process because it allows your mind to wonder or “stumble” around to find ideas. With Helium, it’s different because it could show you the good & bad ways to write a paper. With this it could be helpful because it shows what key ideas like getting the reader’s attention, having good supporting details that go along with your main topics.

"Best of the Blogs" Blog

I looked over my fellow classmates' blogs and now my head is swimming with mostly useless information about various websites. However there was one that stood out and, although not really useful, was very interesting. It did not say who published it but it was about the Pentagon's explorations into giving machine the discretion to pull the trigger or not. It went on to give the pros and cons and conclude that it is a bad idea. I whole heartedly agree with his/her conclusion. Giving the machines that responsibility is like giving weed whacker the choice to cut plants or your dog. The choice to kill or not is highly complicated and morally difficult choice that should never be made without emotional ties to the human race. This is some Terminator stuff they are dealing with and they should tread carefully. Another blog that stood out was Lauren Proffit's blog on an article that showed the darker side of the human psyche. These psychological experiments showed us everyday human beings to be capable of very evil things. She's right; it made me question who I am and what I would do in those situations.
I would love to write maybe a persuasive essay about those robots the Pentagon is looking at. it would be easy to write since I am very passionate about the subject. Another writing idea would be writing about the ethics of defending one's property with lethal force. This also could be a persuasive essay.
Stumble has definitely proven to be a very useful prewriting tool. It gets my imagination fired up and gives me a wide and diverse idea pool. The randomness of the websites always keeps me guessing and never fails to pull up a site that I am passionate to write about. That is the most important thing for my writing and as far as prewriting tools go Stumble is one of the best.
After looking over my fellows' Helium blogs I think the most important element to an essay to them is the structure and flow of the essays. These are important elements and they seem to pay the most attention to these overall.
As much as I hate to admit it blogging has been a very helpful tool for tool for my writing. Writing is important to practice and blogging has me writing at least three times a week. It also allows me to see others' writings and their techniques. Blogging has been very useful and effective in my writing.

Blog Review... Nicole Nixon

Some of the most interesting blogs I read were by Bradley King and Justin Katz. They both wrote about topics that interested themselves and me as a reader. I liked Bradley’s blogs about Michael Jordan and the Australian pole-vaulter; they both were about sports which I am interested in and about how much money athletes make. It also made me think about how I am trying to play right now with an injured knee and how I want to try to push through it just like the Australian gold medalist did in the summer Olympics, and hearing Brad’s own personal experience of how he ran track during an injury, a broken ankle at that, for three whole months added a little something extra to it that most of the students that have posted blogs on the website do not have. It drew me in even more to hear his own accomplishments. Justin’s blog about the crazy animal pictures made me want to go to the page and actually see the pictures he was describing. He gave good descriptions of the pictures and in that he even drew me into actually taking the time to go look at the pictures. I now want to write more about athletes and the money they make by playing sports. Stumble helps when it comes to prewriting because it gives you topics to write about. When you write an essay on helium most of my fellow classmates notice the grammar that is used in the posts and how people cite their pages and just give good details. I also noticed that many of the blogs have not used correct grammar and have had some mistakes in their posts, including mine. But I believe that the mistakes are what you need to notice so that you yourself will get better. I think that blogging has helped me a lot when it comes to writing because it has helped me get ideas to write about and helped me actually want to start writing and work on papers because its giving me practice by making me review other peoples blogs.

E.Jones Best of Blogs

After looking through some of my classmates blogs I found that the most enjoyable blogs were the ones with pictures. It was really interesting to see how many different topics have been blogged about throughout the past few weeks from Micheal Phelps diet to a map of the world. One of the most interesting pictures I saw was one of Neil Armstrong on the moon taking his first step and Kayne West is photo shopped in with a caption about how great it was he was on the moon but Russia still had a better space program. This was just a joke about how he interrupted Taylor Swift and the VMA's a couple weeks ago. I thought it was funny that students are even blogging about this for class.

Stumble is a great tool to use for a pre-write, because it allows you to see topics related to the topic you want to potentially use. It is similar to the idea of bubble mapping, by using stumble it will give you the ideas and sources that you can potentially use for a paper. This can often lead you to want to use an entirely different topic from he one you started with. I could not think of something to write my cause and effect essay on but using stumble I have come up with a few ideas, the effects of saving energy, the causes of obesity, the effects of people to the earth among many others. By looking through sites i could determine if i knew the some of the causes or effects of what was displayed and could be interested in writing about it, a very easy way to come up with ideas for this particular paper.

When exploring my classmates Helium's I realized they mostly had the same opinions as I do when it comes to how essays are both good and bad on this website. The good essays often have a direct point from the start of their essay and give examples of facts or personal experience to back them up to make their own arguments. For the bad essays they do not elaborate or use as much examples and often have many grammatical errors. Many of these essays could also have some of the very opposite effects and have run on sentences and not use the format of paragraphs for their blog which make it confusing for the reader.

Using blogging as a practice for writing about different topics twice to three times a week I feel is a great way to evolve our writing. Not only do you get to write about whatever you find interesting, which makes doing these homework assignments that much more fun. It keeps us writing in between essays and focuses on examining others writing, especially on helium with the good and bad essays we must read and then describe the right and wrong approaches to these. I believe it has really helped me become a better writer and notice a variety of things to write about for now and in the future.

eric jackson blog response

After reading over many blogs I have come to the conclusion that the ones that interest me the most are the unique ones, ones that are not seen on a regular day to day basis. I also have a deep interest for useless facts. For example one person blogged about how many cans of beer are in a keg. No one really actually needs to know how many cans of beer are in a keg, but the unique and useless fact of 141 cans of beer in a keg really grabs my attention.
Some topic ideas that I have gained from this activity for the future, is to broaden my writing spectrum. A good writer needs to be able to write about anything they want in any way they want, to have any random topic and always take it to the next level. Writing has a lot to do with thinking out of the box. From now on my main goal for writing anything is to think out of the box. Not only will it make my writings so much better but it will also expand my creativity levels of writing.
Stumble is the best pre writing tool ever invented. It is like a web in itself everything can potentially connect in some way and you can always look for new things that will help. Stumble helps expand anyone’s mind by looking at a topic in so many random ways.
Blogging I think is a very effective writing tool because you are exposed to so many more ideas than normal. You get to see what others say and respond to people’s ideas and thoughts. I think it is wonderful.

Super Bad Blogger-Rashawndra Doby

Not only was looking at other peoples blog was the longest thing I have ever felt to endure in my 18yrs of living, but I guess I can say this was actually an interesting experience to read up on. Such as Jordan Schreiner who stumbles about things and articles that interests him. Which is exactly what I hope all the classes do actually is to do blogs that has a certain interest of some sort or if not than write something that has the potential that shows the interest you are in. Reading the blogs was long but different compared to the blogs i write about. Hopefully this experience will help make a difference of our blogs and show how differently we write about things.
I can see there can be repetitive stumbles from people and they all have their different opinions on the articles matter. I doubt that everyone just looks at each others bloggers and copy their stumbles. So it is all about different opinions and I can learn from some peoples mistake on stumble if not my own throughout my stumbles

“Best of the Blogs” By Jordan Lawrence

So far i have like one about the High speed bullets impact I just find that to be a really cool idea for a stumble it just some thing i not really seen befor and I think the pic look really cool it one of the few thing I have not seen on the stumble myself that some one had writ about that I had not seen myself on stumble. In as for stumble being a good writing tool I love it give me idea I would never have come up with if i had not give me the idea for it I have been writing alot more sicne we stared doing stumble it help me get stared. In for the Helium if you more backing in to your writing it make a better paper. In for blogging the best thing about it is that it get you writing alot more than you would it has you writing at time that you use to not it some kind of fun to do so it dont make writing like work and that make it a really good writing tool.

Best Blogger Nemethy

The most interesting blogs I found were by Elizabeth O' Connor and Derk Bouwman. They had every informative blogs. They went into great detail about their blogs. They made me interested in new things and made me learn new things for example that there are alot of germs and viruses that can stay on your shower head eww. And they gave their opinion on their blog. Which I realized I never really included in my blogs.
Stumble helps you prepare for future papers making you think about what your talking about. So not only will you be reading your blog so you have to make it so other people can understand it.
Its a good pre writing tool becuase it helps you understand what your trying to write.

katey "best of blogs"

Blogging is very interesting to say the least. Everyone has their own opinions and views on every subject imaginable. I could never say I have a favorite though. Each one is unique and helpful in their own sense. Every blog has its own sense of style and gives me a great perspective on many different things. It almost feels like organized free writing with a lesson at the end. Also with so much variety of information the choice for future topics would be endless. Things that seemed so bland and uninteresting to me before became exciting and kept me so intrigued. I could literally just sit here for hours reading and getting lost in facts and opinions about the most random things. Just reading and writing blogs as an assignment sounded skeptical to me at first. But its actually pretty fun. Definitely a great learning tool as well. Even without trying, I feel like after reading so many blogs, articles, and essays, I may have subconsciously started to learn better and more efficient writing skills. As well as I've learned to read a little faster too. This is actually more enjoyable then I could have predicted. In my opinion, having fun while learning helps to increase the chances that one will retain the knowledge for a longer period of time as well as faster. My classmates believed that some of the most important elements of writing include content, details and understanding of the subject matter. The flow of the subject matter as well as structure of the essay are also very important. I wholeheartedly agree with them. These are all great things to learn and keep in mind in when writing an essay. But i also believe that in order to write a really great essay you have to put your heart into it and truly believe in what your writing about. Of course, that's just my personal opinion and thoughts. I look forward to learning from my fellow classmates and reading their future essays and blogs.

when i was searching through the blogs I read something really interesting about his one swimmer that eats 12,000 calories a day. when kept reading it kept going on on what Michael Phelps diet consisted of. When i was reading it remind my of all the people that love to eat and cant stop eating. i realize than that you can still eat but you just have to work out a lot more. i guess how much you eat that how much you have to work out. Then i read another interesting blog about five psychological experiments that expose humanity's dark side. when i read this i learn a lot about myself and how would other people act in some situations. when i kept reading i understand why people would do what they did. if i was in that situation, that i couldn't stop and help a homeless person on the street cause i had be at a important place. I think no one wouldn't stop and that sad to say. we are so wrap up in one self that we do not want see or help others that has less. wow. the last one that i found really interesting was about a chimp taking care of an tiger's cubs. It crazy that when it comes to animals they do not what you are they will take care of you. when come down to humans some time they do not except you because what you look like or because of of the way you act.

Melvin- Best of Blogs

Best of the Blogs – September 23, 2009

I have really enjoyed every aspect of blogging so far this semester. It is a homework assignment that I do not mind doing, it does not even feel like homework anymore. I can tell that it is helping improving my writing skills and I no longer get stressed about writing a paper.

I have really enjoyed completing the Stumble Upon blogs. They really give you a chance to discover websites that you other wise might have never come across other wise. In reading my classmate’s blogs, I really enjoyed exploring the topics that everyone is interested in. I particularly enjoyed reading on topics that I would not normal research. For example, what diet is better for a dog? Now I know if I ever get a dog to feed them Purina dog food. I believe that stumble is a wonderful pre-writing tool. You can narrow the search settings down to the topics you are interested in writing about and who knows what may come up and help jump start your mind. It seems as the semester continues to go on, my classmate’s blogs are becoming longer and a bit more in-depth. I feel like everyone enjoys stumbling as much as I do.

In Helium blogs, the most important part of a good essay seems to be the essays structure and flow. This helps students by being able to compare a strong essay and a weaker essay side by side. Also, when reading the essays, I can compare my work to the websites essays and create a stronger essay overall. Helium makes it very easy to distinguish the differences between the higher rated essays and the lower rated essays and apply the techniques to my personal papers.

I believe that blogging is a great way to involve casual writing into everyday life. This is a perfect example that shows how writing can be fun and not just typical research papers.
I enjoy finding the topics and creating the blog post every week. I hope to create a blog of my own once the semester is completed.

Hartley Best of Blogs

After reading multiple blog posts by other classmates, I came to the conclusion that all of us have many different interests and ways of writing about them. I cam across all sorts of topics and ideas including but not limited to alphabet ice cubes to selling cats. It amazes me what people will put on the web these days. It can be the stupidest most uniteresting topic to me but may mean the owrld to someone else. For example, there was one blog about theatrical dancing and the injuries involved with this activity. Personally, I am not interested in theatrical dancing but I am interested in the injuries and everything that follows an injury. I found that I may not like something but if I loooked further, I saw that I did relate to something else. Stumbleupon, especially, has allowed me to dive deeper and research more on certain topics. I tend to lean more towards health and excercise topics. Stumbleupon and reading classmates blogs gets me reading other topics and finding out what other topics I may be interested in.

Battle of the Blogs, nicole rogers

After long hours of reading through blogs and reading other peoples opinion on which blogs they thought were the best, I saw that I agreed with a lot of other people. Example, the blog that Bradley King wrote about the comedy movies, because one he had a “hook” the quote above his picture was catchy. And he had so much detail about the movies, and then he went on to say that yeah these are great movies but the site presented these in movies in the wrong way, they didn’t tell what the movies were about, which I agree with Bradley they should have done that. And the question at the end of the paper on, how much have I spent watching stupid movies like those, it actually makes me wonder how much money I’ve spent going to see those movies…..I know it’s a lot money.
Another blog I read was also by Bradley King, and it was about the diet of Michael Phelps….now I remember friends of mine talking about how he had to eat like 2000 calories just for breakfast because of how much he burns in one day. It’s just fascinating. I’ve learned a lot about these blogs and could write about the good, the bad, and the ugly. I think I’m going to take what I’ve learned and definitely put this into my future blogs, and even my cause and effect paper as well.