Reminder
- See professor Jill Belli during office hours for details feed back on assignment 1.
Close reading/Active Reading/Annotating/ Reverse Outline
- Skimming
- Read once
- Try to understand the main idea
- Highlight important idea
- Looking the meaning for words you don’t understand.
- Identify the main idea for each paragraph in the text using 5 words or less.
- Purpose of the main idea
In class assignment
Read and Summary “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle
First Reading
- Skim read the article
- Circle word that you don’t know the meaning.
- Circle paragraph and sentence that stand out.
Second Reading
- Before reading the second time, look up the meaning of words that you don’t know.
- Write down the meaning
- Part of speech
- Try to pronounce the word
- make notes on the text
- analyze each paragraph
Vocabulary in class and from “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle
- Mere – the smallest or slightest.
- Wistfully — Full of wishful yearning.
- Allusion — The act of alluding; indirect reference
- Persnickety — Over particular about trivial details.
- Furiously — Full of or characterized by extreme anger; raging.
- Carefully kept at bay — to prevent someone from moving closer.
- Goldilocks effect — states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes.
- Gulp — to gasp or choke, as when taking large drafts of a liquid.
- Nuance — a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.
This reveres outline was done by students.
Reveres Outline of “The Flight from Conversation” (Sherry Turkle)
| Main Idea | Propose/function |
| ¶1 How technology replace verbal conversation with each other. | #1 Replace face-to-face conversation. |
| ¶2 People are connected by social medial 25/7. | #2 Focus in shifted and directed to social media. |
| ¶3 Technology change who we are | #3 awareness |
| ¶4 The idea of being “alone together” | #4 selective attention |
| ¶5 Technology in the office | #5 talking less to your colleagues |
| ¶6 Technologies are forcing us to be alone | #6 Technologies are changing how we communicate in society. |
| ¶7 No ready to trade texting for real conversation | #7 State the relationship between teens and technology(texting) |
| ¶8 People are in their own world | #8 Support pervious paragraph about boy and businessman |
| ¶9 Keep people at a distance just so they are accessible | # Shows how connection affects how we keep in touch with one another. |
| ¶10 Further describing how people use online to connect. | # add details to supports above paragraph |
This reveres outline done by students and Professor Jill Belli
Reveres Outline of “The Flight from Conversation” (Sherry Turkle)
| Main Idea | Propose/function |
| ¶1 How technology replace verbal conversation with each other. | #1 Replace face-to-face conversation./thesis argument |
| ¶2 People are connected by social medial 25/7. | #2 support the thesis |
| ¶3 Technology change who we are | #3 introduce credibility |
| ¶4 “alone together” | #4 sub point |
| ¶5 Alone together | #5 give supporting example of people be alone |
| ¶6 People want to be alone | #6 Show evidence |
| ¶7 People want not technological communication | #7 State the relationship between teens and technology(texting)/ other point of view |
| ¶8 People are in their own world | #8 Support pervious paragraph about boy and businessman |
| ¶9 Keep people at a distance just so they are accessible | # Shows how connection affects how we keep in touch with one another. |
| ¶10 Further describing how people use online to connect. | # add details to supports above paragraph |
Due 10/15/2014
Assignment #3 – Instruction and Usability Testing
Summary and Reverse Outline of “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle