Journal 9

          I learned a lot that I didn't really know about simplifying today that I didn't know before. I didn't really know anything about the active and passive types of sentences. I didn't really know that you weren't really supposed to use "you" in your essays either because none of my teachers before never told me not to use "you" in my essays. After looking at my annotated bibliography, I noticed that I use passive voice a lot in my writing and I should probably start making it a habit to not use it. Even when I was trying to simplify some of the sentences in class I used passive voice. Once we talked about passive and active voice, I had to go back and change all of my sentences so that they were simplified in active voice. It is going to be a lot tougher not using any passive voice in my essay, but I will try to use active even if it makes me have to write addition information.

Advocate Classwork

I would be an advocate for having less required materials for a classroom. In some classrooms, the schools buy great electronics and different things that will help with teaching, but they require students to also buy these expensive materials for class. Parents and even sometimes teachers have to buy all these different items that the student requires to pass the class, and some of the parents cannot afford it. I would encourage students, faculty, and parents to speak up about this problem and make the schooling system change so that those who cannot afford all of theses different materials can go to class with only the minimum amount of things required for learning. If many people are able to speak up together instead of just a few people change can really happen.

Tweeting Classwork

Dr.Seuss Tweets:
Children in the zoo are better then kids at home with their minds full of poo.

He's always on facebook and never goes outside and takes a look.

He is always on his T.V and will never even see a tree or a bee

Thesis Classwork

Teachers and students have different views on online classrooms versus traditional classrooms concerning an online classrooms quality and potential to properly teach the students the information required.

Journal 8

I agree with the article that I read in the book today about people not having meaningful posts and tweets. I think nowadays on Facebook and twitter. Everyone is just posting what they are doing, and no one cares about what they are doing. People will also post these amazing things that they are doing to try to show how cool and great they are. Posts and tweets should be something interesting that people can be interested in when they read. People are spending so much time in their day thinking about what would be a good thing to tweet on twitter or post on Facebook, but they end up posting something about what they're eating and no one really cares.

Journal 7

I think that after I learned how to write an essay in class, I will be able to do it well now. Before, I used to just think that I had to just write sentences and never really thought about transition sentences for my paragraphs and hooks at the beginning of my essays. Hopefully using the new things I learned in class today I can make my essay better. I hope I can find enough things to write about in my essay because I have really never written anything that was five or more pages; the longest things I have ever written is only about three pages. I should be able to get the paper done if I don't procrastinate like I do on all of my others assignments.

Journal 6 - See all sides

Traditional classrooms and online classrooms both have a lot of different traits which change the learning experience.  People have researched and tested to see how the different learning environment changes your learning experience.  It most of the cases it was found that scores and test results at the end of the classes were almost identical and was therefore concluded that learning online and learning in a traditional classroom would give the same results. However, in other test it was found that although the scores may be the same in most classes, there are many factors which change it.

                In one of the tests, it tested to see if gender would change the results in the classes, and it did. It was found that females have more success in traditional classrooms whereas males have more success in online classrooms than the counterpart.  Many argue that traditional classrooms are much better because of the interactions that can happen. It is easier to ask for help and ask questions during class, and there can be discussions in class that would help develop an idea, but through testing the results showed that scores at the end of the class would be identical.

                Another study found that studying in a tradition classroom would cause more improvement, but the end result would still be the same. In almost all of the studies students were asked which type of class environment that they prefer, and the results differed depending on the class. For some classes students enjoyed being able to do things independently their way whereas in other classes they liked being in a traditional classroom where the teacher would guide them through the steps.