Thank You for a Great Class

Week 18

Week 18: Tu 5.23 (Sec. 2 Final Exam Period)
Sec. 2 only: Meet from 8:00-9:15 AM at Flames across from MLK Library
Due: REFLECTION 8

Social Media News 5.16.17

• Twitter remembers back to when Trump was critical of Clinton for mishandling classified information (Mashable)
• Snapchat debuts its newest lenses and filters (TechCrunch)
• Now, fake Facebook Live streams are a thing (Endgaget)
• Chance the Rapper apologizes for "liking" a body-shaming Instagram post (Allure)
• Texas men charged with using Grindr to attack gay men (New York Post)
• Trump's lawyer posts photo of daughter in her lingerie, says she has "brains and beauty" (Independent)

Reflection 8: 👌 — 😄 Rule the 🌐

Emoji (or emoticons), a series of electronic graphic symbols, have existed since the late 1990s. However, it wasn't until they were integrated into Apple's IOS in the past few years that they became a cultural phenomenon. Today, emoji have integrated themselves into everyday electronic communication, typically via mobile phones and in social media. But have they become too prevalent? Do they typically enhance communication or hinder it? For example, what happens for those who may not understand or be aware of specific meanings of certain emojis? Do you use emoji, why or why not? Finally, what might the long term effects be on us for substituting so many words for symbols?

Include at least two of the following in your discussion:

• "The Rules of Emoji" (GQ)
• "Why Emojis Might be Your Next Password" (TheConversation)
• "New Emoji Aim to Represent More People, More Gender Options" (San Francisco Chronicle)
• "Nine Struggles Only People Who Don't Understand Emojis Experience, Because Why is an Eggplant a Penis?" (Bustle)
• "Eight Commonly Confused Emoji and What They Really Mean" (Metro)
• "How Using Emoji Makes Us Less Emotional" (New Republic)

Requirements:

• MLA Style
• 1 page in length
• Works cited page

Due:
Sec. 1 - Fr 5.19
Sec. 2 - Tu 5.23

Week 17

Week 17: Tu 5.16 (Final class session)/Fr 5.19 (Sec. 1 Final Exam Period)
Class: Presentations; Course wrap-up

Sec. 1 only: Meet from 8:00-9:15 AM at Flames across from MLK Library
Due: REFLECTION 8

Upcoming:

Week 18: Tu 5.23 (Sec. 2 Final Exam Period)

Sec. 2 only: Meet from 8:00-9:15 AM at Flames across from MLK Library
Due: REFLECTION 8

Social Media News 5.11.17

• Faked: Viral video of porn actress being bit by a shark (Gizmodo)
• Facebook's copycat features hurting Snapchat's bottom line (ABC News)
• White House spokesperson Sean Spicer hid from reporters in the bushes and the Internet went to work (YourTango)
• Bow Wow called out for faking Instagram post (Variety)
• This anti-Tinder app forces users to actually talk before you can see your match (San Franciso Chronicle)
• How Instagram influencers got caught up in the Fyre Festical fiasco (Engadget)

Week 16

Week 16: Tu 5.9/Th 5.11
Class: Presentations
Due: MEME—FINAL DRAFT (Email to dhdelao@gmail.com by 7 PM); ENGLISH DEPARTMENT ASSESSMENT (HARD COPY—NO EMAIL)

Upcoming:

Week 17: Tu 5.16 (Final class session)/Fr 5.19 (Sec. 1 Final Exam Period)
Class: Presentations; Course wrap-up

Sec. 1 only: Meet from 8:00-9:15 AM at Flames across from MLK Library
Due: REFLECTION 8

Week 18: Tu 5.23 (Sec. 2 Final Exam Period)

Sec. 2 only: Meet from 8:00-9:15 AM at Flames across from MLK Library
Due: REFLECTION 8

Socila Media Mews 5.3.17

• Twitter eviscerates former Rep. Joe Walsh for his insensitive tweet about Jimmy Kimmel's infant son (Huffington Post)
• Social media quickly brings down Baylor's Sigma Kappa fraternity for their "Mexican-themed" party, featuring brownface and "build that wall" chants (Buzzfeed)
• A series of YouTube "pranks" on their kids cost a couple their custody (Endgaget)
• Attempted suicide on Facebook Live stopped by Georgia authorities (WMAZ-TV)
• Also: Facebook hires additional 3,000 to monitor content on Facebook Live (ABC News)
• In only months, Instagram Stories surpasses Snapchat in popularity (Forbes)

Spring 2017 English Department Assessment: Self-Reflective Essay

For this assignment, you will be producing a self-reflective essay to demonstrate that your work in English 1A has helped you to understand and achieve GELO Learning Goals 2 and 3  (see below) associated with the course. This means you should reflect on and refer to the work you’ve produced in the class—especially the main assignments, but you may use other evidence as well—to show your progress. You may even refer back to your Directed Self Placement materials to help demonstrate your progress. Your goal is to convince your readers (SJSU writing instructors) that you have gained insight into what makes writing effective and that you’ve begun to develop strategies for producing such written and multimodal texts.

Your reflection should answer the question: 
How does the work you have produced in your class reflect the qualities of effective writing as outlined in ENGL 1A learning outcomes?

ENGL 1A Course Learning Goals (GELOs) 2 and 3:

2. Perform the essential steps in the writing process (prewriting, organizing, composing, revising, and editing) and demonstrate an awareness of said performance

3. Articulate an awareness of and write according to the rhetorical features of texts, such as purpose, audience, context, and rhetorical appeals

Requirements:

• 500 words (two full pages)
•  MLA Style

 Due: Thu 5.11*—Hard copy only, no email

*Note new due date