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Alexandria Dorato. Monroe Street Zoom Mtg 1 Summary

After watching the zoom recording, I felt more comfortable with starting college. When I registered for classes, I was nervous about remote learning and how it would work out for me. I am glad that you went over everything, I have a clear understanding of how this course will be for me. I learned how to use open lab by simply following the steps that you provided. If I was able to attend the zoom meeting, I would have asked how to view my grades. After watching the video “Love is the Message, the Message to death” by Arthur Jafa, I understood your feelings towards the video. The message is just so powerful. A quote that stood out to me was “when in need, who will save you”. This quote makes me wonder and also feel upset for the people who feel that they are alone in this world. I also learned what is expected from you in terms of the media shares after reading your response to the video. I get a better understanding after seeing examples because it enables me to know that I am doing the task correctly. I developed a few questions after you discussed the reading “A Word’s Meaning Can Often Depend on Who Says It” by Gloria Naylor. I would have asked why the word could never be applied to a woman as she stated. Naylor gave her reasoning but it is still unclear to me.

Question: For the essay draft, do you want more of a bulleted format or write it as if we were writing the final copy? Do you want us to just revise the draft?

Also.. I am going to try to join the zoom meetings on my lunch break. I don’t think i can attend the entire meeting but i will be there whenever i get the chance to.

Nahid Ali Media Shares

In my intro I really wanted to share this article Tittle of this article :The Virus Changed the Way We Internet. When I was reading this article, realized that over the last few months, fears of infection combined with lockdowns and movement restrictions have pushed more me than ever onto internet. I spent soo much time on my social media than anything. It’s like I have a safe space to interact, be entertained, distract myself, and find inspiration without any risk of contagion. After reading this article I could see a clear picture of the importance of internet on so many of our lives during pandemic.

Zoom Summaries

Zoom Summary Guidelines

If you miss a Zoom meeting, please write a 250-300 word summary, including at least one paragraph, one direct quotation from the conversation, and as many bulleted points as you like.

You are encouraged to make your summary interactive, responsive, and —NOT simply informative. What did you learn from watching & listening to the recording? What would you have said or asked if you’d been present at the meeting? Would you have used Zoom emoji reactions to any particular moment in the Zoom? Would you have used the Chatbar? Would have wanted to do a Screenshare—and, if so, what would you have shared?

These are just a few questions to get you going with the creative part of the summary—don’t feel obligated to respond to all of them or in order… Basically, I just want your summary to indicate what you learned from the Zoom (the important stuff related to the course) and also how you responded to it, the ideas it gave you, etc.

Note: When posting, please title your post using your name and the meeting # (i.e., Monroe Street Zoom Mtg 1 Summary) and remember to check the box next to the “Zoom Category” before posting.

You can test that you posted correctly by clicking this link; if you can’t see your post there, then go here, scroll down and look for post (you can search for your name as well), and click “Edit” then make sure you’ve selected the right category. Rinse and repeat.

Noelia Lazo Media Share

For my intro I want to use the song “Silence” By Marshmello Ft. Khalid.

From what I knew this song was very popular for a month or so as most songs that come out from well know artist don’t always last long. I choose a song specifically because I’m a person who loves constantly listening but yet the music distances me from everyone thus becoming (as the song states) one with the silence. The irony in the song also intrigues me for saying “in one with the silence” while in a song used for the sole purpose of the silence. But then the thought crossed my mind that silence may not only be the absence of sound but also the state of simply being alone. There’s a saying of being alone in a crowded room and in the same sense someone can embrace silence in place filled with noise which leaves room for contradictory to the meaning of the words.

Aldo Media Share 1

This is how I’m felling now that a new semester has started.

Dominic Padon Media Share 1

Song that comes from a show I really like, I find that I connect with the overall message: although endgames are all well and good, it definitely won’t hurt to look around you and enjoy the present. Life moves on no matter what, and you should do your best to live in the moment. The song only echoes the emotional impact: it reminds me of better times and of the moments where I wish I had done more to have fun.

The song has an interesting history that stems all the way from 1899, to a 1930’s pop song using fragments of the original, to being covered as a guitar piece in the late 60’s, to being sampled and remixed by the man considered to be one of lofi hip-hop’s godfathers, into the classic song many know and love today.

1. For Friday 8/28

Read the Essay 1 assignment (see link above under “Student Work” à “Essays”).
Finish reading the first two reading assignments (#1 and #2, by Gloria Naylor and Ta Nehisi Coates, in “Readings”).
Respond by Friday evening to the following two prompts. Share your response as a comment below (see “OpenLab Bible” under “Course Info” for instructions on how to comment).I. On reading Naylor. This is a narrative-based essay, like the one you’ll be producing for Essay 1. Let it be an inspiration to you all. Write a response to it, considering some (if not all) of the following questions. Please write your response in paragraph form; please do NOT simply answer the questions in order. It’s better for you to follow your own train of thought than to try to answer my questions as though they were a test (they are NOT a test).
II. On definition in Coates. Whenever one declares what something IS, one is making a definition. In essay 1, you will (somewhere but not everywhere in the essay) formulate and argue for your own definition of what “education” is.

We’re looking at Ta Nehisi-Coates text for inspiration regarding how definition can be used. In Ta Nehisi-Coates’ Between the World and Me he forms a powerful definition to frame the story he tells his son about living as a black man in America in the 2010s. He writes: “race is the child of racism, not the father.” As you may have gleaned, this is no ordinary dictionary definition of race; this is one of the ways Coates wants to define race. I want you to do two things with this:

A) Unpack the implications of Coates’ definition of race. Why does he think this? What impact does it have on how you think about race? How is it related to current events that you are aware of? Again, begin with 1 or more of these questions and see where it takes you. Don’t feel obligated to answer all of them in a row.

B) Write your own definition of “race” or “education”—up to you. Explain why you’ve defined the term as you have.

Monroe Street // Media Share 1

As my intro, I’m sharing a piece of video art by Arthur Jafa titled “Love is the Message, the Message is Death.”

Whenever I watch Jafa’s short piece, it makes me laugh. It makes me cry (every time). Alternations of white and black and black and white, violence and hope. The Kanye soundtrack, replete with Mahalia Jackson wailing via sample, the shots of small children pleading with their drugged-out parents, learning to fear police—this makes you wonder: when in need, who will save you? There Jafa plants a rather cruel reply: the indifference of the sun, far away, glowing, flaring. I am trying to think of what brings tears for me whenever I watch. There is something of the essence of what it means to be a human—living and dying in America in the 20th-become-21st century—here. There is something of me here, I don’t know quite where, when I watch this.

Assignment 0: Syllabus Notes & Question

By the time we Zoom on Wed morning at 11a, I want you to carefully read our course syllabus. Be especially careful in reading the “Core Course Assignments & Grading Section” (from the bottom of p. 1 to the top of page 3).

After reading, write a response below (shared as a COMMENT), in which you

A) list at least 10 core course assignments and the % of the final grade for each, and…

B) pose 1 question you have about the syllabus, to be discussed in our Zoom call.

0. Welcome / OpenLab Setup

Hey everyone,

Welcome to the course. Now let’s get setup (be forewarned: bc this is an online coures, there is *a lot* of setup to be done—please be patient with this process and read carefully!). Luckily for you, I’ve prepared for you a CityTech Online Setup “Bible.” < — go here and begin (or just scroll down)!

Monroe (a.k.a. Professor Street, but you can call me “Monroe”—or whatever you’d like; just don’t “call me” an hour after an assignment is due asking how to do it 😉