Media Madness?

hschallenberg — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:45:19 +0000

Your assignment over the next week is to focus on the extent to which you use media. After keeping your log of your media usage on a typical non-school day and spending a day without media, please post your responses to the questions below in a substantive paragraph. Your response should be posted by Monday, Nov. 28.

Remember to follow our blogging guidelines when writing your post. When you post your comment, use your FIRST NAME and LAST INITIAL. (e.g., Heidi S.) If you would prefer not to use your name, you may create a reasonable pseudonym — a fictitious name — but do tell me your name so that I can give you credit.) Do NOT include an email address or URL address. It will be removed if you do.

You must spellcheck your writing and use correct grammar. Also avoid use of AIM slang to receive full credit.

I will approve each comment before it is posted.

If a parent or guardian would like to weigh in with his or her opinion on any of the items below, their thoughts are welcome. Any such entries will be posted under the pseudonym “A Parent.“

Try to respond to these questions for your blog response:

After completing the timelog, how much time did you find that you spent using media?
The article that is part of this assignment notes that our youth spend “practically every waking minute” when not in school using a cellphone, computer, television, mp3 player, video console, or other electronic device. If this is true of you, how do you think such heavy media use is affecting you or your friends — both positively and negatively?
What did you do differently on the day you stayed away from media?
Did you find that you were more productive completing homework on the day you stayed away from media?
How successful were you at staying away from media?
How did your “withdrawal” from media make you feel?

“The Consummation of Empire” by Thomas Cole

hschallenberg — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:48:34 +0000

This is the full-size picture of the painting appearing on the weblog. The American artist Thomas Cole laid out the rise and fall of an unidentified but seemingly Greco-Roman empire in an epic series of imaginary landscape paintings, “The Course of Empire.” Painted from 1833 to 1836, the series has long been considered one of the most crucial works of 19th-century American art. What is Cole expressing with this painting? For example, what is the significance of the scale of the people in relation to the objects in the painting?

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Media Madness?

“The Consummation of Empire” by Thomas Cole