Miles' Blog Post ~ 2013/02/12

This particular blog-post may or may not be different from the ones you guys are used to.  It's basically an outline summarizing the things that happened in class that day (the 12th of February).  I hope you guys find it useful and amusing and informative and stuff.  :)

1. We depart for English class
2. We sit against the wall
3. We enter class when the teacher shows up
4. People babble
5. The teacher starts talking
6. We're told to not be rude during the presentation
7. Crots papers come back Tuesday next week
8. We prepare for the first group to present
9. Some kid hit on the teacher's boots
10. The presentation begins (the following are summarizations of parts of the presentation)
1. Curiosity is fun!
2. Find an interesting topic because uninteresting ones are boring!
3. Categorize stuff
• Columns, rows, and groups; oh, my!  
4.  Make a list, go away, add to the list, go away again, come back, go away... ad nauseum.  Then review.  
5. Phones and water bottles are inspirational!
6. Make questions
7. Let's talk about iPhones!
8. Write some words for a research paper about iPhones or water-bottles
• You can do Android if you don't like Apple/iStuff
9. Words make us think of other words
10. Let's talk about recycling!
11. [distractions]
1. Someone hit hit a computer
2. We giggled amongst ourselves
3. The teacher admitted to having hit computers, herself
12. They talk about recycling
13. They finish
11. We clap
12. The teacher starts talking about our second paper
• We're gonna look at the media's portrayal of groups
13.  We need to understand the following: 
1. What's a  community?
• Group, subgroup, church, class, clique, etc.
• Communities are defined by commonality
2.  What's media?
• The stuff on the internet 'n' stuff
• We discuss media for awhile
• We didn't come to a very specific conclusion of what media was, just that it encompassed things like TV shows, newsmedia, etc. 
14. Make a list of 10 things
• Either 10 communities,
• or 10 medias.
• be specific
• Pick stuff you're interested in
• You can also do 5 of each, or really any combination of communities and media so long as they add up to 10
15. Pick two of those things to explore further
16. Explore them further
17. Set aside predefined notions
18. Pick your favourite topic, or come up with one if you didn't like the two you chose earlier
19. Write some questions to explore it further
20.  Make sure to focus on media portrayals
21. Due Thursday on BlackBoard before midnight
• 500 words
• Community and media you're looking at
• Guiding Q's
• Why are you interested in this topic?
22. The teacher will be absent and a substitute will take her place on Thursday

Welp, that's all, folks!  This is everything that happened in class on Tuesday in a nutshell.  I hope you enjoyed or at least got some use out of this.  Remember to heed the bold bits!

Oh, and I didn't have any pictures in mind for this post, so I just found this generic English meme: