I am hoping that as we move into the reading of My Friend Dahmer and The Lovely Bones that students will post not only to their own blogs but also in response to each others' blogs (including mine).
I am truly enjoying reading everyone's blogs in EN 110 but am surprised that no one is posting in response to anyone else's blog. Perhaps the discussion in EduCat (our NMU Moodle system) is working well, and we don't need the blogs to extend the conversation. Perhaps it's hard to remember to go to the list of student blogs that I created and posted each week and visit them. Perhaps everyone's busy. I'm not really sure.
My intention with including blogs in this class is to encourage students to express themselves through a new format, to encourage conversations between/among students, and to encourage reflection upon the books we are reading.
Thanks for listening. I hope that sharing this will inspire people to share more and to talk about how blogging in this class is/is not beneficial to them individually or as a group.
Kia Jane :)
Hi Kia I was reading your post about how no one is blogging, I did respond to one last week, it was nothing exciting, but I thought I'd try it out since I've never been a blogger.
ReplyDeleteI was watching the commercials on Abilify and Seroguel and I like the one with the dark cloud because someday's are like that, you just are not in a good mood. When my kids are in a bad mood I will tell them I see the black cloud over their head. I can usually get a smile.
Any of the commercials on anti depressants always have this long list of possible side effects and some of them are scary. "You may have increased risk of death, possible uncontrollable muscle movements that may become permanent, you could suffer from high blood sugar and if it's too high it could induce coma or death." It seems like a good number of people are on antidepressants today.
Thanks for posting in response, Jackie. I often wonder why they are doing so much advertising to the public about mental illness medications today; they didn't do so (in my memory) in the sixties, seventies, or eighties. I think it was in the nineties that it began.
ReplyDeleteI found a great blog on "Depression, Advertising, and Pharma" by Dr. Julie Donahue that discusses this issue. In this article, she says, "In 2005 alone, pharmaceutical manufacturers spent approximately $120 million on direct-to-consumer advertising of antidepressants." WOW. However, she does go on to say that "direct-to-consumer advertising encourages people to seek treatment for health conditions" but once they are in the doctor's office, it's up to the doctor to decide which medication to recommend. I know that I often ask my doctor about options for medications (are there newer prescriptions that have fewer side effects? are there specific drugs that have interactions with medicines I'm already on? have there been studies done on women my age? etc.)
http://www.miwatch.org/2007/11/depression_advertising_and_pha.html
THanks for extending the conversation - I hope others will jump in at some point - somewhere (or should I say 'blogwhere'?).
Kia Jane