The Blog Project

See, English 110 exists outside of the classroom. We'll be sharpening our analytical minds in this heated arena: blog-dom.

The point of the blog is for you to practice making 1) observations and 2) analyses on the material you come across in your day-to-day virtual lives, and then to share your analytical experiments with your classmates. Take this opportunity to explore the course theme and broaden your understanding of your chosen sources. Social media, YouTube, and online articles are rife with opportunities for interesting analysis. So impress us with your brilliance, hipness, and pop-cultural savoir faire. This is all about practice (and nerd/cool points, of course) so really go for it.

Let's say to post (roughly) once every other week, which makes a minimum of 5 posts total. There's no limit to how much you can post. But I'll remind you: if you start honing your analytical skills here, your grade and your chances for success over the next few years will markedly improve. Try stuff out--this is graded simply on doing it. If you're truly exploring, you'll probably make some analytical trips that you look back on and are slightly embarrassed about--and that's a good thing.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Ohio State vs Michigan

Well as the quarter winds down I realize we should probably post a blog. So I thought it would be interesting to look at the Ohio State Michigan rivalry. After this year's contest ended, much to our dismay, the first ever Facebook posts and Tweets about Michigan defeating the school we all love were posted. Contrary to popular belief this is not because in previous years Michigan students, alums, and fans alike were too ignorant to know how to use these social medias; rather, it is because prior to 2011 Michigan had not defeated OSU since 2003. Why would this hinder statuses and tweets you ask, well in the year 2003 Facebook and Twitter had not even been invented. This is tough for us to rap our minds around because most people today have a Facebook account and a Twitter account, and if you don't you are probably either old or living under a rock. 2003 doesn't seem like that long ago or does it? Most people were playing around on their flip phones trying to figure out what a text message was. It's crazy to think how far technology has come in a matter of 8 years. We can now share our thoughts and ideas with people all over the world via a status or a tweet. I don't know, I found this interesting to think about I hope you all will as well.

Thrive,
Connor Clay
Emily McGuire
Melissa Clement
Chris Meyers
Bailey Denzy
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