Summing It All Up

Using lines, shapes, and colors make a significant difference because the text is different sizes and shapes which draws the viewers attention to think that the larger the shape, the more important it is. It allows the user to be more creative and inventive on presenting information to a viewer. Being able to connect shapes and lines together also conveys an idea or connection without saying words. Take for example a picture of a square and Spongebob; connect a line between them and the viewer is forced to connect the two shapes and images together and associate them through indexical signs. It's implied that a square is the same shape of spongebob, so it becomes an implied connection or association.

Based on the Rhetoric of being able to draw in/insert images opened up the rest of the users to go and find images to post something in. I will say the idea of following the prompt completely flew out the window and no one really paid any attention to the lesson after that. It became a race to see how much they could post in the doc while remaining anonymous. People feel more comfortable being able to say or do things when there doesn't have to be a name associated with them. So in this case, being able to paste images or words that you wouldn't normally show in a classroom or bring up in a classroom became more accessible and acceptable to post it since it can't be traced back to you potentially. Another example of how we're influenced by the rhetoric, some people were posting meme's about patrick and that prompted another person to make quotes that Patrick makes.

For most of the time I remained silent and I was slightly annoyed that as a teacher, they were completely ignored by his students because people were messing around on the drawing and not even paying attention. I know that using a format where everyone can edit and insert images is pretty much asking for it, but completely ignoring the topic and fueling the fire did made me angry how they were slightly disrespectful to the teacher. So that made me not participate in adding meme's and writing random stuff because I was trying to pay attention to the teacher. Every once and awhile I tried deleting the non-sense to keep people on task and slightly focused, but that didn't really work so I gave up and ignored most of it.

If we're using information for academic purposes and counting CREDIBLE sources we don't use wikipedia because it can be changed by the public based on voting and influence. This goes for the collaborative work we did just now because people will post random wiggling people or cats in space and there is no credibility or anyone owning up to their actions. It's based on anonymous actions that can't be traced or counted as credible. Not to mention it's easy to read and track when the content and page doesn't keep constantly changing. Using this type of tool is good for brainstorming and sharing ideas to get the "academic juices flowing", but it shouldn't be something that is cited, sourced, and turned in for a a dissertation or such.