Research Blog Part 14 (Works Cited)

O'Brien, Susie, and Imre Szeman. Popular Culture: a User's Guide. Toronto: Nelson Education,

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Patera, Marianne, Steve Draper, and Martin Naef. "Exploring Magic Cottage: a virtual reality environment for stimulating children's imaginative writing." Interactive Learning Environments. Dec2008, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p245-263, 19p, 3 Color Photographs, 3 Charts, 2 Graphs. Academic Search Premier. Web. 21 Dec. 2010.

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Hayles, N. Katherine. "Stimulating Narratives-What virtual creatures can teach us." Critical Inquiry. Autumn99, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p1, 26p, 5 Black and White Photographs. Academic Search Premier. Web. 21 Dec. 2010.

 

 

Research Blog #13

Exploring Magic Cottage:a virtual reality environment for stimulating children's imaginative writing.
 

Authors: Patera, Marianne

Draper, Steve
Naef, Martin

Source:

Interactive Learning Environments; Dec2008, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p245-263, 19p, 3 Color Photographs, 3 Charts, 2 Graphs

Document Type: Article

To summarize this article I would say its about virtual reality in children and their imagination and creativity that can come from bieng a part of virtual reality. The artice also discusses children's composition and motivation in language arts.  It's about allowing children into virtual environments and how it helps with their imaginative writing. The article is about a study that investigated if an interactive virtual activity would increase motivation and stimulate childrens imagination in a writing task.

Reading Blog #10 Member Response

I posted on Eric & Dustin's blogs.

Activity 10.2 (Reading Blog #10)

 Vagabonds                                   
 Someones who shiftless
 Someone who moves around or wanders aimlessly.
 Drifter

Tourists- are people who are rich and can afford to visit the whole world.

They're a mixture of both from both worlds. Race and gender play a part in this to a certain extent. Not all one race is wealthy enough to be tourists. I believe that race and gender don't play a major role in mobility. There are many people in the world from different races, gender and backgrounds that have the ability to be a tourist. Some people get born into wealthiness and others get lucky enough to achieve it on their own. But most lets say doctor's are wealthy but are not considered a tourist. They don't just get up and leave to travel the world, because if they did they wouldn't continue to make money.

These categories are shifting and changing because the way the world is changing with the economy. People now a days are not willing to spend money freely to travel all over the world. People are bieng smart with their money and saving it and bieng percaucious. "For the vast majority of people in the world, however, mobility is greatly limited-and, when movement does become a necessity, it is usually due to terrible economic, natural, or political circumstances that have generated refudee crises around the world." O'brien page 338.  People become comftorable in their homes and usually don't want to move all around. Americans enjoy having stability in their lives and homes.

2nd Member Response for Reading Blog #9

I posted on Amanda Schuester and Shelby.

Reading Blog #9

Chapter 9 is about space and how it's utilized. So many stores, restaurants, fast food and so forth and so on. In Rossford or Perrysburg right on Route 20 there used to be a few houses but mostly cornfields. Now companies have decided to build like crazy out there. There is almost every fast food place you could imagine on that road. There is walmart, meijers, kohls, krogers and target. Besides that there are also many sit down restaurants also. It seems to me once one place starts building everyone just follows in thier footsteps. There is like 2 of every kind of store. What I find surprising is that some of the stores have only made it a few months before closing down.

The companies main goal is to have consumerism. Consumerism is the name for the complex set of dominant values and practices produced by and arising from life in a consumer society: a historically unique form of society in which consumption plays an important, if not central role.

I believe private space is more important than public space. I enjoy having private space, allowing us to go to the park. The park is a great place to go and have a picnic or enjoy spending time with my children and family. Public places are also a necessity to get grocies or just go enjoy a day of shopping. A public swimming pool is also considered a private place. I find it strange that back before people had bathrooms in their homes the poor were considered smelly and people viewed them as just using the pools to get clean. Some poor people were not even allowed to use the pool. I also agree that pools do bring a certain type of intimacy for all kinds of people. People stand and swim with one another in hardly any clothing. I've never really thought about it that way but it's very true. Many of the places that are considered private could also be considered a private place. I believe we should find more ways to have more private areas instead of everyone bieng so worried about public places.

2 Menber responses for reading blog #8

I responded on Andrew Poland and Eric's blog