Fallacies

Today I learned in class that fallacies have to be arguable.  I did not know to what degree but it pretty much has to be this v.s. that.  I also learned that many people in my class share my views about higher education.  I am enjoying this class.  I hope that you guys are also. 


Begging the Question Fallacy

Deductive vs. Incuctive

This video explains the difference.  I know last week in class we had some different understandings.  Tess inspired me to post a video.  I think this explains the differences clearly.  Enjoy.

Cloud 2

Yesterday I was reading other people blogs and I came across Tess page and she had a video on her page that explained the cloud.  It was very informative.  The advances and possibilities that we can do with this technology is limitless, and it seems to keep getting better.  I am happy that I am taking this class and learning new tricks not just from Professor Hamon but from each other as well.  If you want to know what the cloud is, allow me to redirect you to Tess' page.

Cloud

The cloud is great technology.  I think it is great to be able to keep documents in a cloud.  I am sll for it but the dark side of any web based technology is security.  Identity theft and hackers are the things that worry me the most.  I think it is incredible to be able to save your computer storage to google backup or some other storage device that keeps your documents for you free of charge.  I love the fact that we can share documents, pictures, videos, and other media formats online.  The only problem is how we share this information, and who we choose to share things with.

Higher Education

I have found out that the better paying jobs that have the more bang for thier buck is actually the ones that require on the Job training.  The conventional way of thinking is to do what were all doing now.  Go to school, get the degree, get the dream job and become rich.  That way of thinking is not always true.  Many people with degrees are not even working in their degree fields.  Some are unemployed or doing jobs that meet lasser qualifications than what they have.  Many people who have degrees spend 10 years or more just to pay back college debt.  It is sad and discouraging how that works.  The price of higher education is a costly one.  Think about the return on your envestment and the sacrifices in time to achieve a degree.  Some degrees yield big time payoffs, others not so much.

Is a higher education really needed.

What do you think about the new writing assignment?  I have my own opinion about the writing assignment.  I really think with the changes in times and economy has affected the needs for highter educationl.  The level of education after high school is required for some jobs but not to measure success or the ability to do a job well.  I know may well educated people with poor people skills or common sense.  I also know uneducated people that are very successful, many of the more famous people in our society do not have a college education.  I am not saying it is a bad thing or a waste of time. Rarely do you just become an engineer, or rocket scientist without some higher education or understanding.  However you do need some experience and most jobs now they want people with experience over a degree.  Even in management people hire and want people that can get results, managers of resources, to get the bigger bang for thier buck.  Not just a degree on the wall.  How do you feel?

Deforestation

What is your opinion or feelings on the subject of deforestation?  I am getting ready to do a paper on the subject and would like to see how people feel.  I have learned so much on the topic in the last couple days that it is making my head spin already.  The biggest thing that I found out is that just like we pay for water eventually we will have to pay countries like Brazil and Africa not to cut down their trees.  That means we or perhaps our kids will have to pay for fresh air.  Crazy when you think about it, but those trees are the filters and what protects us from the green house gases, and gives us oxygen.  For now they are cutting and clearing forests like crazy, with modern technology things are more efficient, effective, and productive.  From 6 acres to 20 in a day.  The land is being developed on or farmed on.  Erosion occurs, and when the trees are all gone, the people who moved to those areas to have a better life,  no longer have food, money, or other resources to live.  The area become towns of poverty and famine all over again.

My head is in the clouds.

Blogging in the cloud.  I love the cloud as long as it never goes down.  It is a unlimited storage and hopefully it never goes down.  I am sure there are massive battery backups and backup storage facilities.  It is amazing though when you think about how massive old computers were in the past.  They took up entire buildings, entire rooms, now we have thumb drives that store more information than the entire first computers.  I remember when calculators were super expensive also, now they are only $1.00.  Now there is a cloud where we do not have to waste any of our own computer storage, and things are saved forever.  The google apps allow us to do just about everything for free including making phone calls.  I love Google, and their applications are awesome.  I love it.

More Blogging

I have had an opportunity to see other people blogs in class.  It is interesting to see what other people think.  It is also nice to recieve input from others.  I get to write my thoughts and share them with my peers, but I also get to see their feedback as well. 
I just started using google blog last semmester and I am continuing to learn more about this and how to use the blogger.  There are so many tricks and tools on google.  I have yet to learn all of the tools and tricks.  Look at the tool bar on the post page and see all the edit icons.  How many have you used to blog?  If you have not used these tools I challenge you to start using them.  I think my new goal is to start using these icons.  Let's see what they do, shall we? 

DMV

This morning I spent over three hours to try to register my vehicles.  It is always a long experience in that place.  I have two vehicles and a jet ski with a trailer. I registered my car a couple months ago, and the DMV input it into the computer wrong.  So since January I have had a license plate on my car under the wrong name but was registered somewhere else under my name.  I actually had three profiles in the FL DMV.  So when I tried to register my SUV red flags went up when I mentioned my car.  I was there forever I got so angry that I could not waste more time to register the jetski and trailer.  I was a little angry on my way to class this morning.  I know it was a mistake, but it makes me wonder how it happened?  What would have happened if I got pulled over? 

My Blogging thoughts.

As previously stated, I think blogging is fun.  I like to write.  I think it gives us the students to share our thoughts and get feedback.  It also allows us to create our writing voice.  We all have different techniques and styles.  Blogging gives us an opportunity to express our individuality and personality.  I think it is great also because we are not graded in traditional terms.  We are given an opportunity to express ourselves and comment on our peers.  Is blogging valuable?  I would say yes.  Yes because we practice our writing skills.  We can change our technique to suit our audience.  Our audience being our peers or our instructors.  I say we should keep blogging.

Writing rules

I am glad that we are allowed to use words like I, and we in our writing assignments.  I feel like I have an opinion.  I believe we as a collective share common beliefs and we have a voice to be heard.  I am happy that we have a teacher like Dr. Hamon.  He is trendy, modern, and hip to new teaching techniques.  I actually enjoy going to English class, where in the past I cringed at the words "English Class".

Blogging for class

I know I have not introduced myself to the class yet but I am 6ft 5in, Shrek look alike (brown not green), and sit in the front row.  I am Anthony.  It is fun to blog for class, and to be viewed by your peers.  I think it is a great way for us to get to know each other.  I found out last quarter that it forces us to communicate, and we find out things about others that we never would have known.  I love the feedback as well.  Sometimes the bolg opens your eyes to a different perspective.  It also allows you to debate things you are sincere about.  I am sure there will be some topics that we can all agree to disagree about but like Dr. Hamon said, we have to be respectful adults here.  I am looking forward to taking this journey with you.

Blogging

I learned how to blog last quarter.  I did not know how to set up a blog page, nor did I know about all the fun stuff google had to offer.  I am so happy that I took Comp II with Dr.  Hamon.  He not only taught us how to blog but also showed us the Google Drive, and google tools.  Some of the ones he showed us last class.  I am learning more and more about that program.  I think it is way better than microsoft office and for the price of free, there is nothing to compare.  I enjoyed the last class and I am sure I will enjoy this one as well.