Website

By the way, here is the link to my website if anybody wanted to check it out on their own.

www.wix.com/tlisco1/dream-patterns

Last Blog- Presentation

My goal for this presentation was to sum up all of my research in a reasonable amount of time. I think I pretty much touched on every medium and I did this in an attempt to keep people's attention. I felt that by switching to each different medium it would make the greatest impact, but I could be wrong so any feedback from you guys would be greatly appreciated. I wanted to produce enough information through my presentation so that everyone could leave the room with a little more knowledge about some of the dreams they might be having. I felt that by putting general explanations of some dreams on my website, it would provide the most helpful information to the class. I chose to create a website, handouts, a powerpoint, a youtube video, and a little quiz at the end to mix things up and make the presentation creative and entertaining. My audience was this class and any other college student in general. I addressed the needs of my audience by using different mediums and examples that they could relate to. I think the strongest part of my presentation was the powerpoint because it pretty much explained my research project in a nutshell. The weakest part of my presentation was my handout. I really tried to make it as effective as possible, but I feel as though I might have failed to do so. I was having a lot of trouble trying to figure out what to put on it so I figured by summing up some of the survey results and what I had expected to find it may having some impact on my audience. I would probably just change the handout if I could because I feel that that could've use some tweaking. I was actually really nervous to do this presentation even though I knew the material, but once I got up there and started talking it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I felt confident in what I was saying and I actually enjoyed doing my presentation.

GOOD LUCK TO THE REST OF THE PRESENTATIONS:) AND HAVE A GOOD SUMMER!

april 14th

I liked how this class went on our own pace. It was helpful that we were able to have input on the research project schedule and give suggestions as to when we would be able to finish our assignments by a reasonable date. I also like how this class was mostly discussion. I learned a lot more through the discussions than I would have if it was just a lecture class. The Martin Luther King site that was shown really opened my eyes to what kind of tricks sites try to play on their viewers. It is really necessary to find sites that are reliable. I also really like blogging. It is a lot more relaxing than writing an essay and I feel that I can better express my feelings and opinions through blogs. Also, it allows me to comment and give suggestions to my fellow classmates through their blogs. The only help I really need for this project to be successful is input. I need to know what is and isn't working in my draft and what suggestions I can get about preparing my presentation.

april 12th

Major Research Question: Is there a pattern between the dreams of college students and what causes this pattern?

Thesis:There is a theme pattern with dreams in which activities that a college student is involved in, relationships that they have with people, and/or situations they have experienced or will experience will appear within his or her dream.

Presentation: I am going to be making a website. On this website, I am going to include the results to my survey, quotes from the works that I've used, a YouTube video relating to my topic, newspaper articles, and other examples of the theme patterns within college students' dreams. The color theme I am going to use is a cool-colored theme included blues and greens and teals in order to set a relaxing feeling to go along with my topic. I would like suggestions on things to put on my website if anyone has any!

Thanks! :)

Packet Assignment

First Activity

There were three speakers: Anna McCarthy, Heather Hendershot, and Mark Greif. Honestly, I didn’t really care for the two women who went first. The seminar was supposed to be about television, but the first two women barely mentioned television, they mainly talked about citizenship and politics. I only enjoyed listening to Mark Greif. I feel like he framed his speech around college students. He realized his target audience was college students and he incorporated things to catch our attention. I feel that the two women didn’t base their speeches around a college student audience.

In Mark Greif’s speech, he discussed how reality television isn’t exactly the best example of television. He talked about how we view the Price is Right as featuring regular citizens while when we watch reality shows, such as The Kardashians’s, we don’t see them as regular citizens. Both shows are containing non-actors, but because they are famous they don’t seem like regular citizens to us. His speech should have just been the main speech for the 2:55 session because I didn’t get anything out of the two other women’s speeches.

-I learned that the way the essay is formatted really effects the way a person perceives the essay. You can use different fonts and styles in order to enforce emphasis on a sentence or phrase. The way an essay is formatted can determine whether or not your audience will understand the message you are trying to send. If there is too many styles used within one essay like this one, it will not be easy on the eyes to read and the reader will most likely not continue on with reading it.

Second Activity

This is my magazine article

http://www.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1838100,00.html

I like the way this article is set up because it starts with a big, colorful picture of the main Las Vegas strip and it is taken in a way that is appealing to the eye. Once an audience sees this picture they will be enticed to visit Las Vegas and will read on in the article in order to find out what Las Vegas has to offer. The different things about Las Vegas are listed in a numeric order with a bolder font for each topic. The article starts off with an introduction of Las Vegas and then leads into the lists of attractions. Each topic offers a picture like explained before. There are links within the article that are in a different color and are underlined and italicized so that they stand out to the human eye. This article is easy to follow along and the subtopics are short enough that they hold my attention.

Summary of Mark Bittman article

In Mark Bitttman's article, he discusses the difference between the way domestic animals are treated and how other animals are treated. He talks about how we tend to favor and only treat domestic animals with love and care. When there is an animal that we generally end up eating, we don't necessary care how it was treated before hand as long as it tastes good in the end. Also, when it comes to these kind of animals, farmers may abuse the animal and treat it as though it does not have the same emotions as a household pet may have. He uses an example of the punishment received for killing a pet hamster, when everyday an animal is treated poorly and killed in order for us to eat.

March 15 Exercise 1

Mine was on page 26-27 but I looked at Emma's post to see which one it actually was.

a) I believe that there are dangerous levels of Chemical X in the Ohio groundwater, on the other hand, there are other people that believe that Chemical X might actually be helping the surrounding land.

b)I think that this novel have certain flaws, but there are some people that would say that it is actually flawless and influential.

c) I feel that football is so boring, but there are people that thoroughly enjoy watching and/or playing it.

d)I think that male students often dominate class discussions, but there are some girls who always volunteer in class discussions.

e)I feel that the film is really about the problems of romantic relationships, but there is other people who feel it is about the problems in our society.

f) I'm afraid that templates like the ones in this book will stifle my creativity, but there are people in my class that would say that this book is very resourceful.

I hope I did this write...the instructions kind of confused me :/