The document discusses MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and provides tips for writing assignments. It highlights two key points from King's letter: raising tension through nonviolence to shed light on unjust laws, and that opposing forces are working hard against progress. It then provides writing exercises like clustering ideas, drafting quickly without editing, and summarizing in 3 sentences to overcome writer's block. Partners review each other's rough drafts by creating a reverse outline and editing sentences one by one.
No idea where to start with social media? Too many people saying too many things?
Social media expert Adam Larter breaks it down nice and simple.
Perfect for marketing professionals, beginners and anyone wanting to refresh on the basics. Up to date as of 2013.
If you want to study Airframe Mechanic in Oklahoma City, there's a prestigious academy in this area that offers that. Check http://www.metrotech.edu/course-programs/transportation-distribution-logistics/airframe-mechanic, for more information.
The use of complex derivatives instruments to transfer and hedge risks have grown significantly since 1970s, but the use of these instruments often create risks itself. This slidecast discusses the relationship between complex derivative instruments and risk management with a focus on technological tools that are available to C-Suite executives and the CA profession. It closes with hot topic in the field.
No idea where to start with social media? Too many people saying too many things?
Social media expert Adam Larter breaks it down nice and simple.
Perfect for marketing professionals, beginners and anyone wanting to refresh on the basics. Up to date as of 2013.
If you want to study Airframe Mechanic in Oklahoma City, there's a prestigious academy in this area that offers that. Check http://www.metrotech.edu/course-programs/transportation-distribution-logistics/airframe-mechanic, for more information.
The use of complex derivatives instruments to transfer and hedge risks have grown significantly since 1970s, but the use of these instruments often create risks itself. This slidecast discusses the relationship between complex derivative instruments and risk management with a focus on technological tools that are available to C-Suite executives and the CA profession. It closes with hot topic in the field.
Metro Tech, a popular trade school in OKC, offer a versatile Electrical Technology training syllabus, made up of two different courses: Electricians Assistant, and Residential Electrician's Assistant. http://www.metrotech.edu/
English 113A Rhetorical Prospectus Answer the questions .docxYASHU40
English 113A
Rhetorical Prospectus
Answer the questions below as fully as you can about your chosen topic
for the “Adding to a Conversation” essay. Be as reflective and detailed as
possible. Remember you are trying, in a sense, to convince me as your
potential “editor” both that your topic is worthy of your and others’ time,
and that you’ve sufficiently researched what others have said to be
prepared to contribute to the conversation.
1. Why am I invested in this topic? Why do I care? How does it matter to
me?
2. Summarize the nature of the conversation about your topic in 2-3
paragraphs. Be sure to include the variety of positions people hold
about your topic—i.e. don’t reduce it to a pro/con or argument or
either/or topic—the groups which hold these different positions, and
the reasons these different groups might take the positions they do.
3. What is your purpose in “adding to this conversation”? What do you
want to communicate with your paper? (e.g., inform, persuade, argue,
shoot down another position, propose a solution, etc.)
4. Who do you want to address your paper to? Why this group given your
purpose and your reading of the conversation?
5. What do you think this audience needs to know or consider that they
don’t already know?
6. What kind of reaction do you want to get from your readers? What do
you hope they’ll do as a result of reading? (e.g. take a specific action,
change their opinions, get angry, etc.)
7. What kinds of written sources will you need to help you accomplish
your purpose?
8. What kinds of written sources will be most convincing or needed by
your audience? Why?
9. What other kinds of information can you draw off of in this paper
(personal experience, surveys, etc.)?
10. If you could imagine publishing this paper in a public venue, where
would you like it to appear?
11. What questions do you have about writing this paper? What do you
think will be most difficult about what you plan to do?
Connected, but alone?
Sherry Turkle, March 2012
Just a moment ago, my daughter Rebecca texted me for good luck. Her text said, "Mom, you will rock." I love this. Getting that text was like getting a hug. And so there you have it. I embody the central paradox. I'm a woman who loves getting texts who's going to tell you that too many of them can be a problem.
Actually that reminder of my daughter brings me to the beginning of my story. 1996, when I gave my first TEDTalk, Rebecca was five years old and she was sitting right there in the front row. I had just written a book that celebrated our life on the internet and I was about to be on the cover of Wired magazine. In those heady days, we were experimenting with chat rooms and online virtual communities. We were exploring different aspects of ourselves. And then we unplugged. I was excited. And, as a psychologist, what excited me most was the idea that we would use what we learned in the virtual world about ourselves, about our iden ...
Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
By Sherry Turkle
· Sept. 26, 2015
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COLLEGE students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. They say it’s a skill they mastered in middle school when they wanted to text in class without getting caught. Now they use it when they want to be both with their friends and, as some put it, “elsewhere.”
These days, we feel less of a need to hide the fact that we are dividing our attention. In a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center, 89 percent of cellphone owners said they had used their phones during the last social gathering they attended. But they weren’t happy about it; 82 percent of adults felt that the way they used their phones in social settings hurt the conversation.
I’ve been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years. For the past five, I’ve had a special focus: What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many people say they would rather text than talk? I’ve looked at families, friendships and romance. I’ve studied schools, universities and workplaces. When college students explain to me how dividing their attention plays out in the dining hall, some refer to a “rule of three.” In a conversation among five or six people at dinner, you have to check that three people are paying attention — heads up — before you give yourself permission to look down at your phone. So conversation proceeds, but with different people having their heads up at different times. The effect is what you would expect: Conversation is kept relatively light, on topics where people feel they can drop in and out.
Young people spoke to me enthusiastically about the good things that flow from a life lived by the rule of three, which you can follow not only during meals but all the time. First of all, there is the magic of the always available elsewhere. You can put your attention wherever you want it to be. You can always be heard. You never have to be bored. When you sense that a lull in the conversation is coming, you can shift your attention from the people in the room to the world you can find on your phone. But the students also described a sense of loss.
One 15-year-old I interviewed at a summer camp talked about her reaction when she went out to dinner with her father and he took out his phone to add “facts” to their conversation. “Daddy,” she said, “stop Googling. I want to talk to you.” A 15-year-old boy told me that someday he wanted to raise a family, not the way his parents are raising him (with phones out during meals and in the park and during his school sports events) but the way his parents think they are raising him — with no phones at meals and plentiful family conversation. One college junior tried to capture what is wrong about life in his generation. “Our texts are fine,” he said. “It’s what texting does to our conversati.
If we are ONE people, one human race, then person-to-person (P2P) we can courageously up-end any stereotype or generalization that makes us feel separate or different. I asked these authors to be the audacity of that!!
The subtitle of our ebook could be "This Little Light of Mine...". It features 37 authors from 5 continents, ages 10 to 63. I, Kyra Gaunt (kyraocityworks.com) curated it through Twitter and Facebook in only 3 weeks. It has been read by over 10,000 people here on Scribd.com since April 3, 2010. It is also available on Slideshare.net.
Join our Facebook fan page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Audacity-of-Humanity-Fan-Page/114692675212231
This ebook is free. Liberate these authors' testimonies of being here and being audacious. Help them let their little light shine. Tweet it, email it, post it on your own site.
#FollowTheFear: Do Things That Scare YouAnn Handley
I used to think that being afraid of everything was a weakness. Then I learned how to use fear to my advantage. Here's how. This is an annotated version of a talk I gave at Hubspot's INBOUND event.
Metro Tech, a popular trade school in OKC, offer a versatile Electrical Technology training syllabus, made up of two different courses: Electricians Assistant, and Residential Electrician's Assistant. http://www.metrotech.edu/
English 113A Rhetorical Prospectus Answer the questions .docxYASHU40
English 113A
Rhetorical Prospectus
Answer the questions below as fully as you can about your chosen topic
for the “Adding to a Conversation” essay. Be as reflective and detailed as
possible. Remember you are trying, in a sense, to convince me as your
potential “editor” both that your topic is worthy of your and others’ time,
and that you’ve sufficiently researched what others have said to be
prepared to contribute to the conversation.
1. Why am I invested in this topic? Why do I care? How does it matter to
me?
2. Summarize the nature of the conversation about your topic in 2-3
paragraphs. Be sure to include the variety of positions people hold
about your topic—i.e. don’t reduce it to a pro/con or argument or
either/or topic—the groups which hold these different positions, and
the reasons these different groups might take the positions they do.
3. What is your purpose in “adding to this conversation”? What do you
want to communicate with your paper? (e.g., inform, persuade, argue,
shoot down another position, propose a solution, etc.)
4. Who do you want to address your paper to? Why this group given your
purpose and your reading of the conversation?
5. What do you think this audience needs to know or consider that they
don’t already know?
6. What kind of reaction do you want to get from your readers? What do
you hope they’ll do as a result of reading? (e.g. take a specific action,
change their opinions, get angry, etc.)
7. What kinds of written sources will you need to help you accomplish
your purpose?
8. What kinds of written sources will be most convincing or needed by
your audience? Why?
9. What other kinds of information can you draw off of in this paper
(personal experience, surveys, etc.)?
10. If you could imagine publishing this paper in a public venue, where
would you like it to appear?
11. What questions do you have about writing this paper? What do you
think will be most difficult about what you plan to do?
Connected, but alone?
Sherry Turkle, March 2012
Just a moment ago, my daughter Rebecca texted me for good luck. Her text said, "Mom, you will rock." I love this. Getting that text was like getting a hug. And so there you have it. I embody the central paradox. I'm a woman who loves getting texts who's going to tell you that too many of them can be a problem.
Actually that reminder of my daughter brings me to the beginning of my story. 1996, when I gave my first TEDTalk, Rebecca was five years old and she was sitting right there in the front row. I had just written a book that celebrated our life on the internet and I was about to be on the cover of Wired magazine. In those heady days, we were experimenting with chat rooms and online virtual communities. We were exploring different aspects of ourselves. And then we unplugged. I was excited. And, as a psychologist, what excited me most was the idea that we would use what we learned in the virtual world about ourselves, about our iden ...
Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
By Sherry Turkle
· Sept. 26, 2015
·
·
·
·
·
·
· 300
CreditYann Kebbi
Image
CreditCreditYann Kebbi
COLLEGE students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. They say it’s a skill they mastered in middle school when they wanted to text in class without getting caught. Now they use it when they want to be both with their friends and, as some put it, “elsewhere.”
These days, we feel less of a need to hide the fact that we are dividing our attention. In a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center, 89 percent of cellphone owners said they had used their phones during the last social gathering they attended. But they weren’t happy about it; 82 percent of adults felt that the way they used their phones in social settings hurt the conversation.
I’ve been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years. For the past five, I’ve had a special focus: What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many people say they would rather text than talk? I’ve looked at families, friendships and romance. I’ve studied schools, universities and workplaces. When college students explain to me how dividing their attention plays out in the dining hall, some refer to a “rule of three.” In a conversation among five or six people at dinner, you have to check that three people are paying attention — heads up — before you give yourself permission to look down at your phone. So conversation proceeds, but with different people having their heads up at different times. The effect is what you would expect: Conversation is kept relatively light, on topics where people feel they can drop in and out.
Young people spoke to me enthusiastically about the good things that flow from a life lived by the rule of three, which you can follow not only during meals but all the time. First of all, there is the magic of the always available elsewhere. You can put your attention wherever you want it to be. You can always be heard. You never have to be bored. When you sense that a lull in the conversation is coming, you can shift your attention from the people in the room to the world you can find on your phone. But the students also described a sense of loss.
One 15-year-old I interviewed at a summer camp talked about her reaction when she went out to dinner with her father and he took out his phone to add “facts” to their conversation. “Daddy,” she said, “stop Googling. I want to talk to you.” A 15-year-old boy told me that someday he wanted to raise a family, not the way his parents are raising him (with phones out during meals and in the park and during his school sports events) but the way his parents think they are raising him — with no phones at meals and plentiful family conversation. One college junior tried to capture what is wrong about life in his generation. “Our texts are fine,” he said. “It’s what texting does to our conversati.
If we are ONE people, one human race, then person-to-person (P2P) we can courageously up-end any stereotype or generalization that makes us feel separate or different. I asked these authors to be the audacity of that!!
The subtitle of our ebook could be "This Little Light of Mine...". It features 37 authors from 5 continents, ages 10 to 63. I, Kyra Gaunt (kyraocityworks.com) curated it through Twitter and Facebook in only 3 weeks. It has been read by over 10,000 people here on Scribd.com since April 3, 2010. It is also available on Slideshare.net.
Join our Facebook fan page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Audacity-of-Humanity-Fan-Page/114692675212231
This ebook is free. Liberate these authors' testimonies of being here and being audacious. Help them let their little light shine. Tweet it, email it, post it on your own site.
#FollowTheFear: Do Things That Scare YouAnn Handley
I used to think that being afraid of everything was a weakness. Then I learned how to use fear to my advantage. Here's how. This is an annotated version of a talk I gave at Hubspot's INBOUND event.
What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Building CommunitiesDawn Foster
Presented at LinuxCon NA in New Orleans.
Communities are one of the defining attributes that shape every open source project, not unlike how Asimov's 3 laws of robotics shape the behavior of robots and provide the checks and balances that help make sure that robots and community members continue to play nicely with others. When looking at open source communities from the outside, they may seem small and well-defined until you realize that they seem much larger and complex on the inside, and they may even have a mind of their own, not unlike the TARDIS from Doctor Who. We can even learn how we should not behave in our communities by learning more about the Rules of Acquisition and doing the opposite of what a good Ferengi would do. My favorite rules to avoid include, "Greed is eternal", â"You can always buy back a lost reputation" and "When in doubt, lie". This session focuses on tips told through science fiction.
1. MLK Letter discussion
Journal 2: Excerpts
Tips & Tricks
Biography—‖Everybody’s
Talkin’‖
MAJOR One: Workshop
WEEK 4– MAJOR ONE Workshop
2. MLK—Letter from
Birmingham Jail:
Two Points: Raise
tension through non-
violence to highlight
unjust law
&
The forces against us
are working just as hard
and creatively.
3. I find myself on the run, now more than ever before. Fear
not. I’m not an FBI’s most wanted and I don’t owe money
to the wrong people. I simply have an addiction to running.
For as long as I can remember I have been outside running
about. From a young age I was the runner, the fast kid. I
played soccer for 7 years. Playing tag with the
neighborhood kids was always a blast for me because I was
rarely ―it‖. When I entered high school I was recruited by
my brother for our schools cross country team and I was
hooked. I ran every day, whether it was practice, meets, or
just to run. If you ask any serious runner, and even some
not so serious runner, they will tell you that there is
something addicting about getting 35 miles a week. ―
4. When I look back the thing I remember as the most embarrassing was when I started working for my dad. He had started a
business of cleaning up foreclosed homes, and he figured that I should start learning how to earn money. So, we began it all during
December many years ago and the first thing I can remember was how much I complained about it. The house was cold, dark, and dreary.
I was put to work in a bedroom on the second floor cleaning up a closet full of junk.” ---Nice set up, to this: (next paragraph)
“The entire time I was there I complained out loud about how it was stupid and pointless it was and how I wanted to go home.
However, halfway through cleaning the closet I found a Pokémon card. Nowadays it would have gone in the garbage bag with the rest of
the trash, but back then I was ecstatic. Back then Pokémon cards were a kid’s video game. At that moment I realized that in the process of
cleaning that house I might come across another good find, so I attacked the rest of that closet with greater vigor. “ ----HA!!!!
5. ―One of the world’s newest addictions I
share with millions of people is the use of
cell phone. I cannot imagine living without
one. Now days we have phone that do
thing we never imagined they could do,
and they even get better by the day. Since
the day starts my phone wake up and goes
to bed with me. I never get bore it keeps
me entertain all day. When I get hungry it
helps me find a place to eat. Our lives are
so attach to this device that without it we
could not perform our daily tasks. ―
AND:
―I am pretty sure that in the future you will
be able to smell stuff over the phone, if
that happened I hope that people’s bad
breath gets block off.‖
6. ―In a place, where the nations Warriors
exude their camaraderie, the stale smell
of cigarettes still lingers in the air, the
only reminder of tobacco use, since it has
been vanquished by the Fourth Reich’s
boot. Pictures of young men at the ready
with machine guns proudly placed on the
western wall. In the corner is a table
setting, placed in honor of those no
longer with us or whose fate is unknown.
Tales are told and troubles are drown at
the V.F.W’s and American Legion halls
across this country. Slowly, this clique is
dying out. With them, dies their stories,
and frankly, the freedoms these folks,
sacrificed and died for. I have enjoyed
every time I have been able to
experience this ambiance. Even,
establishing a taste for the otherwise
detestable hot dog, that is served at The
V.F.W.. ―
7. “ Mis-communication is defined as a failure to communicate adequately and properly. If texting and emailing are considered
written communication the nation has fallen short. Visual gestures like the middle finger and other hand gestures have even
spoken loudly. Misperceptions and misinterpretations are more likely to occur in both settings. Al- though they may of not liked
what was said and/or heard there is something to be said about seeing someone's facial expression and hearing their voice while
having a conversation. As a matter of fact some of the greatest conversations were held at a dinner table. Families have allowed
technology to help disconnect them. Relationships have been broken because of the failure to communicate. I often wonder if
anyone knows what a face-to-face verbal conversation is anymore. Have we lost it with the generations or did people just forget
how to communicate? There used to be a time when if a person wanted to get a message to someone they picked up the phone,
wrote a letter or simply just went to that person and had a face to face, down to earth, conversation. The computer was rare at
one point, mostly found only in the libraries. It was only used for education purposes not breaking up, dating or bullying. Cell
phones were only used for emergency situations and the thought of texting had not even surfaced. Despite the fact that
technology has allowed the nation to communicate or shall I say run more efficiently and get messages to a person and/or a group
in a timely manner, it has ruined the most effective communication of all, the verbal one. It’s funny how people have a lot to say
through technology but when faced in front of another person they become mute. They hide behind social websites such as
Facebook and Twitter. The English language is becoming extinct and ebonics are on the rise. Technology has not only disabled
man but it has caused the miscommunication of the human species. It's time to return to the dinner table. “
8. TIPS & TRICKS
Pre-Writing Exercises
Cluster: add as many ideas / associations as possible. Look for a
common thread.
Write a first (rough) draft as quickly as possible: get it out, errs
and all.
Summarize your idea; try it in 3 or less sentences…
9. TIPS & TRICKS
Writer’s Block
What do I write about?‖ or ―I don’t
want to do this!‖
Focus on the assignment: Person(s)
Who did I learn a valuable lesson
from in my past?
What difference do I see now I didn’t
see then?
What activities did I engage in?
What did I learn from the activity
(about myself, and my
interests/abilities)?
10. ROUGH DRAFT REVISION:
Find a partner, get out your rough draft, and read it out
loud. The other person makes a ―reverse outline‖ of the
draft, and then shares it with the reader.
REVERSE OUTLINE: A single sentence summary of each
paragraph, along with at least two (2) main points.
After sharing this outline, begin to use the ―paramedic
method‖, a sentence by sentence editing method that
removes extra words, run on, or fragmentary sentences.
AFTER THIS: The second person reads their rough draft,
and the pair begins the above process again.