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The world around us is honestly all technologically based. If we look at what we do from day to day, our day normally starts with looking at our cell phones whether it be to see what time it is, turning off our alarms, seeing our notifications, or looking to see if we received the beloved email “CLASS IS CANCELLED.” It is safe to say our world revolves around technology. In chapter 5, Sebler was making a point to say how important it is for educators to incorporate technology into their curriculum. He made points to talk about the computer technologies that there are today and the roles that they play in education. If we think about the amount of times we actually have to submit a paper or homework in person on the teachers desk, that answer is slim to none. Everything today is online. ESU has D2L and that is a big deal as we can upload assignments, see what we have to do for each class, get reminders on when an assignment is going to close or if we have a quiz coming up, everything is right there. I am not saying that D2L is completely user friendly, but once you get used to how to navigate it, life becomes a little easier. There are some professors that do not even know how to work some of the newer technologies and then there are some that know more than most students know. That is something that needs to change. Taking the time to learn how to work the newer technologies can be very beneficial to not just the students, but to the professors as well as they can sharpen up their skills. Every class is different and each teacher likes to teach in different ways or have their students submit things in a different manner, regardless, there is technology implemented in some way. Like I said, the world around us is evolving and if we have professors that are up to date and know how to use the up and coming advances and can teach us how to properly use them and navigate them so we can be more successful in the future with whatever career path we go down. I was spoiled in high school because we had an all online system where we submitted everything and we did everything on our own laptops. I came from knowing how to maneuver through a whole website, to coming into ESU with D2L and not knowing how to use anything because no one showed me how to use it. I know that with my major there are constantly new technological advances, such as the new Anatomage table in Koehler Fieldhouse, and without professors that knew how to work that new machine, I wouldn’t know how to work it.

As we have discussed throughout the semester, everyone is on some form of social media whether it be Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. The article Sustaining Critical Literacies in the Digital Information Age: The Rhetoric of Sharing, Prosumerism, and Digital Algorithmic Surveillance had some very interesting points when it comes to social media. It all started in 2004 and there was a social media platform called Friendster, basically like today's Facebook, where you could connect with friends, post whatever you wanted, and make connections. This was a big start to how social media came to be. Prosumerism was a big theme throughout the reading and how there are 3 waves to prosumerism. The first wave was during the agricultural revolution, the second wave was during the industrial revolution and the third wave is the information age. These waves were created and advanced to expand and increase social order. The third wave is where we are now, the do it yourself era. There are so many ways to do things yourself as you can look anything up on the internet and figure it out. When you get something that you need to build, there are instructions that come with it so you don’t need to go and hire someone else to do it for you. People go on social media to buy things and look at things and that is where things get a little creepy. There is an algorithm that is used to determine how much time you spend online, what you look at, what interests you, etc. and then that is all you see. Sometimes you don’t even have to look something up, you could just talk about it, and the next time you open social media, there it is. In the video, the main topic was about false beliefs and with this mixed in with social media can make the world a scary place which is why you cannot always believe what you read on the internet. Everything can be swayed some way or be biased and misconstrued that you don’t know what to believe. The main points here are that social media is much bigger than we think, we use it more than we realize, and we need to not be as consumed with it as we already are. The world is so much bigger than what we think the world looks like on a tiny little screen.

In chapter 9, the main connection was on science and rhetoric. I thought that this was interesting because I never realized how much rhetoric was used in everyday things. Rhetoric is a tool that is used to help be more persuasive and this becomes helpful when it comes to theories. Scientists have to persuade different audiences to believe or see their work and with the use of rhetoric that becomes easier. We saw some main focuses so far about rhetoric being used in the media, but never really saw it used in the scientific way. I know that being an athletic training major, scientific rhetoric is interesting and makes you think a little differently. A big point in the reading was the difference between metaphor and metonymy and the biggest difference was that metonymy comes up with 2 ideas from one place while a metaphor has two ideas that come from two different places. I thought that it was interesting to see the connection between the two of them. Rhetoric is used every single day and in many different forms. It can be used in English like how we use it, or in the scientific form which the reading highlighted.The two forms i used was linguistic and visual because as I have said in my previous posts that I like to talk about things in detail but then when you add the visual aspect, it gives the points you are trying to convey, more meaning to it. 

With the readings Multimodal Composing and Women, Rhetoric, and Politics on Pinterest, I found them both to be very informative and interesting. In the first reading, it was mainly talking about writing styles and how everyone is different. Writing can also come from anywhere at any time so writers should be prepared. Some people prefer to write on paper while other writers are strictly technological and that is okay. In my opinion, I think there are certain times to write on paper and other times to write on the computer, phone, etc. When I write on paper I feel it is more therapeutic because you can get more of your thoughts down and the visual of seeing your actually writing is very heartwarming to me. When it comes to writing a paper or something else along those lines, I type everything because I am a faster typer than I am writer. Certain writers can also only work in certain spaces. Some people need to be around the hectic chaos that is today’s world to be inspired while others need to be by themselves and have time to process and think. The other reading really caught my interest in the topic of gendered rhetorical spaces. I thought that this was interesting because I know that I used Pinterest, Instagram, twitter, snapchat just as much as guys do. Yes it is more surprising if a boy is on Pinterest as that is where girls get a lot of their creative ideas, but that does not mean that it is biased to one gender. Social media today is an all-inclusive world where anyone can use it to be who they are. Yes there are times where we put on an act because we think others will like us better if we use this filter or if we wear this outfit, but there are times where people are just themselves regardless of their gender.

This weeks assignment was to read Spaces for Writing as well as another article that showed you the different types of multimedia. Something that I found interesting that the author in Spaces for Writing pointed out, is that every writing starts as a blank page. You have a clean version of something that you can create in any way you want whether it be pictures, videos, GIF’s, music, audio, whatever it may be, you have the power to do it. Everyone thinks the writing process is so simple and easy. That it is just an opening, a middle, and a conclusion with some good hooks to keep you engaged throughout, but there is so much more to that. In Spaces for Writing, the author made it like a comic strip that immediately grabs your attention. Writing isn’t just writing something down with pen and paper, in today’s world, it is writing a caption on social media, texting someone who is in the same room as you, writing an email to your professor, whether we realize it or not we are constantly writing. I loved the way the article made that known. Writing can start from anywhere, on any type of media, and can take you anywhere.

I thought that this writing made things so much easier to understand such as ethos, pathos, and logos as it broke it down so that we understood the basics of what each of them meant and do. This is important to know because when we are trying to write something, we are thinking about the audience we are trying to reach and relate to and we wouldn’t be able to do that without ethos, pathos, and logos.

The GIF that I chose was Spongebob trying to write a paper and he is stuck on the word ‘the’ and he cannot figure out what to say, how to start it, or anything. I think that that relates to one of the themes in the article because we start out with a blank page and from there, who knows where inspiration will take us. I also used visual and linguistic because i was able to express my thoughts through words and in pictures

As everyone knows, doctors don’t always have the neatest handwriting which can cause confusion with the patient and sometimes even the doctor as they don’t even remember what they wrote or they can’t read what they wrote. In the article The Primary Care as Writing Space article, a lot of this was touched on. One of the best things that happened in health care was getting everything online rather than having it all written out. No one really thinks of it as writing because they think of it as just doctors notes but this article expressed that. A big problem with the healthcare system was that because of miscommunications, there were people that were unable to be treated due to not being able to read that patients file. Communication is key in an relationship whether it be professional or personal. When things are written down clear and concise, everything is easier to understand for every party. I’m very happy that the healthcare system changed their ways and made things electronic as it will help out with my profession as an athletic trainer.

I picked this GIF because this is what I think doctors would say when they try to read someone’s terrible handwriting where they cannot understand what is going on with their patient. 

The readings for this post really were interesting to me as I work with a young girl who has special needs. I am not someone who was trained on how to work with someone with disabilities but there was a bond between the two of us where we got along very well, she listened to me, she was sweet, and I got very close to her and her family along the way. Working with her, I learned a lot about her and a lot about myself. I learned that not everyone is the same and understands things the same way. We don’t have the same privileges and certain things are very challenging for her. Technology is changing especially as it is adapting to a world where not everyone is the same. With something as simple as Netflix, someone who cannot hear can turn on subtitles so that they know what is going on in the show. With certain websites such as quizlet, there is a hearing feature where you can click on the definition or set it to a mode where it reads the definitions for you. This is something that every website and apps should add in so that it is easier for someone with disabilities to use. In the two articles Things Every Designer Needs to Know about Accessibility and Accessibility Guidelines for UX Designers  they all explained that there are different things that can be done such as making text bigger, not having certain colors used, and make things simpler and bigger.  When people are developing a new website or app they need to realize that not everyone is the same. Not everyone can hear, not everyone can see, there needs to be something that people with all kinds of disabilities can use so they can benefit from using the app. If we incorporate these things in everyday life everyone’s lives will be a lot easier. Even IPhone’s today have the siri feature where you can talk to her to send in a text message, to find something on the internet, create a reminder for you, set an alarm, whatever you need, she is there for you whenever you say or name or activate her. We learned this in all of the infographics that we did where we analyzed other groups presentations and saw that certain colors were easier to read, making a text bold or picking a different color to bounce off of the background can make a big difference. Sometimes it is the little things that are overlooked that can make the biggest difference.