VOCABULARY WE NEED

Vocabulary We Need

meme - An image, video or set if text that becomes popular and spreads rapidly via the internet

virus - A piece of code that copies itself with its main purpose to destroy or corrupt the system/data 

viral - to become popular and spread rapidly through the internet

blog - a website that is regularly updated and is typically about a certain topic or person

wiki - a website that is like an online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone

URL - a websites equivalent of an address

website - a location the the internet that has one or more pages

www - World Wide Web

Internet - a global computer network providing a variety of different means of communication, information, entertainment, etc

2.0 - an upgraded version of its predecessor

open source - allowing a freeing way to learn something

How I Read

How I Read

So today in class, Dr. Preston read to us his post titled How We Read and I think this proved to me why I dislike reading so much. The post discussed the reasons why most of us find reading unenjoyable, from analysis to maybe it’s just not the book for you. I know that somewhere in myself I  L O V E reading, but it always comes down to me having to take notes or stop every chapter and analyze “what does the author mean by…” and “how is this a metaphor for..” etc. I’ve never taken the time to actually sit down and let myself be transported into the book and get to know the character for who they are instead of what they symbolize. I know the biggest challenge I have while reading is that if I read to myself, I won’t absorb the material, or my astigmatism makes it really challenging to look at a book page for too long. Although I’m writing in a negative connotation, this gave me hope for reading because the more I think about it, the more I realize that my problems have resources that could be fixed and it gave me hope to try reading again, but instead of trying to analyze every sentence, I should try and read for pleasure.