Online/Hybrid Class 7: Ezines

It is interesting to read that zines have been around since the late 1980s, such as, “The Match: An Anarchist Journal” (Zoning in on Zines) worked on by the comfort of Fred Woodworth’s house. Also, I like the “Invert Pyramid” (Writing for a Web Audience) style where you start with the conclusion; “[t]hen build upon the conclusion by summarizing the most interesting and important supportive information. Next provide detail about each important point. Then close with background information.” It is good for scanners and it makes sense because we are busy all the time and want to get things done as accurate and as soon as we can.

Also, for my zine project I want to discuss about any details that makes our work a happy place to stay or just happiness vibrations at work to make ourselves feel better. I understand why many people don’t like their jobs because their bosses don’t let them advance in the company. One of these people includes my boyfriend whose boss thinks he is doing him a favor to work for him, when in reality my boyfriend is applying for other jobs in order to feel appreciated.

In my case, I love my job because I’m only working five hours per week as a Spanish tutor - I currently teach two students, but need another one. My apologies for the previous title misunderstanding where I'm actually looking to work with an extra student and I'm not looking for any other job - and it is fun because they tell me about their exciting personal lives that include some gossip. I sympathize with all people who have trouble at work because I had some similar experiences, such as the one where I worked at a small bank as a teller. The supervisor would get desperate to teach me, and at the end, she would not teach me any of a teller’s duties. When I was transferred to another store, I was finally taught by another supervisor how to do other teller’s transactions that the previous one did not teach me. I always thought that she felt that she was doing me a favor for allowing me to do some type of transactions.

Note: My apologies for not adding any link, but blogspot did not allow me.

Looking for a Job and Trying to Feel Good

The other day, I started desperately looking for a Spanish Tutor job, after posting every two days through the famously craigslist website. After constantly posting for two weeks in a row, I finally got a call from a man who wanted to be taught at the Library; of course I wasn’t going to teach him at his home unless he lived with his family, and that includes having kids and wife present at the tutoring session. I do this for my safety. But before that, I did not get any e-mail replies and not even interested people with some questions, except two scammers who wanted to pay me by money orders and one of them offered me $100 per hour. Ha ha! I was so disappointed that not even after posting my beautiful and almost professional resume (compared to the ones who did not have enough information at all), no one was interested and I was wondering that it might be because I was competing with other two companies who provide unlimited online tutoring for $100 a month. I needed to cheer myself, so I visited a blog and watched the video - the same one is below - in order to try to make me feel better. After watching it, I was thinking about an outfit to wear on Wednesday church, which could make me feel good after an unsatisfying day of trying people to hire me. When I finally made up my mind, I wore my favorite green jacket because the church gets cold inside for the air conditioner, and it was better than wearing my classical and comfy black sweater, which would probably not have been enough to give me a complete hundred percent warm.

Perfection and Love for Zine Project

I truly loved the post where I talk about Love. I would like to know what does Love have to do with perfection. I want to make a mix of ideas when we think about finding the perfect man or the perfect woman. This leads us to be desperate and no one likes it. It can also lead us to depression. Just as this blog says, "[t]he problem is in our continual search for perfection we create a perpetual state of insatiability. And the more we look for perfection, the more we require it, and unfortunately, the less we are apt to find it (actually see it, that is)."

Online/Hybrid Class 6: The Web Among Us

“What have been some of the ways in which internet technology has changed our lives--how and where we work, learn, live, etc?” (Heenan) We can change our ways of thinking by opening our minds when we share information. When we open our sources to be criticized, or show them to the internet world in order to receive some suggestions. Also, I absolutely agree with Dan Gillard when he said on Chapter 12 about writing his book, “Locking down heritage means locking out vital innovation, and I don’t want to be one of the people who turn reasonable protections into absolute control.” Dan Gillard wants suggestions. He truly enjoys getting feed back from the community and complains that journalism does not “listen” to the community when they have opinioned comments to say, insights, adding to the reporting, etc. And when we (internet users) go public with our projects and are genuine about having someone else’s insights, we are liked by people because we are humble enough to accept what other people say. In order to do this, we need to leave our egos behind and that is what most journalists do because they often complain that they run out of time.

That’s why all of those who are citizen journalists, or have a truthful weblog that doesn’t sell ads and is not manipulated by companies – which is what most journalism business do – we trust in ourselves. Lately, news readers and watches have become more skeptical about news. Sometimes they are biased and we don’t enjoy it. For all those who are bilingual in Spanish, you can go to Univision, look for “La Santa Muerte” report which was given on the weekend. It annoyed me because it only talked about the good stuff that this “Saint of the Dead” does. It did not talk about the bad stuff. It was definitely biased.

It’s sad that most Hispanics who live in the U.S. do not know that news need to be objective all the time giving both sides of the news. But also Mexico still gives subjective news which is wrong. I am glad that the U.S. has so many different blogs that makes people to have better resources of having, adding and contradicting of ideas in order for people to know where the truth lies. It is sad that Mexico does not provide any of these.