Wilde article.

This article was very interesting. The man thing that caught my attention was when they were talking about the little girl who had the word "Sister" but had spelled it so far off from the actually word that she could not find it in the dictionary. I had this trouble all the time as a kid. Some one would say "Look it up in a dictionary" and then I would get so frustrated and overwhelmed by the fact that I could not find the word in the dictionary. So in fact the dictionary method did not work at all for me! I remember being so frustrated when some one would say that to me because I knew that I wasn't going to ever learn how to spell the word because I couldn't find it!

Another thing that I found interesting was writing the word down spelled wrong even though you know its wrong because you just wanted to get it out on paper to remind you later of whatever you had written down. I do this so many times in notes for class. You are trying to move along quickly and fill out notes that when you come to word that you cant think of the spelling right away you just write done something close and move on so you can keep up. I also hate when some one asks me for my notes for a class they missed because my spelling is usually so horrible in them that I am ashamed to let them see it!

Another thing that I found interesting is that the author said that learning to spell correctly was not for the teacher who was grading it, or for the writer themselves, but for the reader. I never really thought of it that way, but it is true. I, as the person that wrote it can read it, even with wrong spelling and not skip a beat, and the teacher is reading it critically and slowly to find errors, but a reader is just trying to enjoy the story and should not be held up by your spelling errors. That is very interesting to me because i never looked at it that way before!

Erin

Coffee Shop Dig

I think that most of the converstation at the coffee shop was casual and fun. This seemed to be pretty much the autmosphere...casual. It seems even people there on business were there to keep the business on a casual level and not a serious level.

• There were two girls talking about a guy and his kissing technique. I think that one girl was telling the other girl that he was a bad kisser in order to mark her territory, as in "I kissed him, so you should stay away" I don't think it had anything to do with if the kiss was good or bad.
  
• I'm not sure this is what she was thinking but if it were my friend and I didn't care I would have just kept my mouth shut. I got the feeling that she wanted this "friend" to know that she had kissed him and it was best that she not do the same.
• to the right was some products for you to buy, then the register in the middle and then the station to add extras to your coffee or grab a napkin were to the left. I think that the products are to the left so while you wait to place your order you might be tempted to buy something. Then while you wait for your coffee to be made you can grab napkins at the station or the pamphlets that they had for you too read. the bathroom was towards the back, I think they do that so that if you need to use the restroom you are more likely to feel like you need to buy something because you have to come all the way into the store. then there are chairs and couches and tables in the front of the store where there are floor to ceiling windows so that you can look out at the street and people can easily look into the shop and see yummy coffe!

I think all of these things because I use to work at a store and we used many of these same techniques in hoping that people would come in and spend money. Some of these things I dont know at all, I am just making assumptions. I have never read anything that supports my interpretation, but I am sure that if I looked around on the internet for a whileI could find some sort of info to support my hypothesis.

First Blog.

This article was interesting. It was basically about introducing students to blogs and technology and the road block that come along with using blogs in the classroom. The students used the blogs as a chatroom of sorts at first because they did not understand the true meaning of a blog. Once they got the hang of it though, the students love it and it worked great when corresponding with the older students. Then when an administrator thought that a child gave away too much information about their personal life on their blog the school decided to not allow the blogs. Reverting back to pen and paper was very difficult for the students and one child even said that they thought they had lost thier voice. It cocludes with the fact that online blogging is almost expected in the future for classroom use. It seems to be a very practical and effiencent way to share ideas and points of views.