Class Discussion 3/3/11

After class yesterday, I had thought about my blog and how many more post I needed to get done before the end of the semester. I really enjoyed our class discussion yesterday because I thought the girls did a very good job in presenting the readings in a creative way. I really liked the articles they chose because they were interesting and helped the class to pay attention and really think about whats considered op-ed. I could definitely tell the Charlie sheen article was a blog entry. It had a lot of opinion and wasn't formatted in the same way an op-ed in a newspaper would normally be. The article was good, but definitely lacked  a few things that a op-ed from a newspaper would normally have. The USA today article was clearly an op-ed from a newspaper because it showed strong opinion and gave more information about the topic that the blog did not do. It had a lot of sarcasm to it and was something you would definitely see in the USA today news. The Stephen Colbert script was my favorite. It was hilarious and i thought that the girls picked a good article to show the class with a lot of humor and then after watching the actual clip from the dinner made the article even funnier. You could definitely see how that piece was not an op-ed because of the little information, the fictionalized writing, and the tone of Stephen Colbert's voice. I really liked how they kept all the sources from us until the very end also because if they had showed us each after we read the article it would not have made the point as clear. And they picked 3 intersting articles that grabbed my attention. The View video clip was also funny; I can't believe they both just walked off the set after talking to Bill O'Reilly. It was classic. Class was very interesting yesterday and I really liked the way they presented the information to the class. I'm not sure how my group will choose to the present our information, but I hope it is just as creative and informative as they made theirs. I thought it was a fun discussion to have right before spring break because our brains were already on overload from all the work that was due in all our classes this week and that didn't take too much thought or work. It was a fun and lighthearted discussion. I thought that the video we watched on language was also interesting because people know the rules of language and grammar, but rarely use them correctly. He was kind of a strange man, but his job is to decipher language all day and talk about it. I think i might be a little bit bored if i was him. regardless of what i think about the articles or the language man, class was fun yesterday and I hope that my group can produce a fun discussion like the girls did.