IT argument / review blogs

Gentlemen:
The blogs look good- make sure you have your edited argument sheet uploaded. For the late sheets, Ahmed Alkhali and Abdulla Mohamed, see me on Monday for your corrections.

See everyone on Monday to start the next project.
Gregory

Reviews for "Inconvenient Truth"

Gentlemen: Here are some reviews for IT - including negative reviews for your posts.

Reviews

(Positive):The film received a generally positive reaction from film critics. It garnered a "certified fresh" 93% rating at Rotten Tomatoes (as of May 21, 2007), with a 94% rating from the "Cream of the Crop" reviewers. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 75, based on 32 reviews.[36] Film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the film "two thumbs up". Ebert wrote: "In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to."[37]
Film critic David Edelstein called the film, "One of the most realistic documentaries I've ever seen--and, dry as it is, one of the most devastating in its implications."[38] David Remnick added that while it was "not the most entertaining film of the year...it might be the most important" and a "brilliantly lucid, often riveting attempt to warn Americans off our hellbent path to global suicide." [39] New York Times reviewer A.O. Scott thought the film was "edited crisply enough to keep it from feeling like 90 minutes of C-Span and shaped to give Mr. Gore's argument a real sense of drama," and "as unsettling as it can be," Scott continued, "it is also intellectually exhilarating, and, like any good piece of pedagogy, whets the appetite for further study."[40]

(Negative): On the other hand, journalist Ronald Bailey argued in the libertarian magazine Reason that although "Gore gets [the science] more right than wrong," he exaggerates the risks.[41] Some reviewers were also skeptical of Gore's intent, wondering whether he was setting himself for another Presidential run. Boston Globe writer Peter Canello criticized the "gauzy biographical material that seems to have been culled from old Gore campaign commercials." [42] Phil Hall of Film Threat gave the film a negative review, saying "An Inconvenient Truth is something you rarely see in movies today: a blatant intellectual fraud."[43]
In "extensive exit polling" of An Inconvenient Truth audiences in conservative suburban markets like Plano, Irvine, Dallas and Long Island, 92 percent rated "Truth" highly and 87 percent of the respondents said they'd recommend the film to a friend.[44]

From Wikipedia - Inconvenient Truth

See you Monday!

The Fox

An Inconvenient Truth: Part 2 - Argument Writing

An Inconvenient Truth: Part 2

Gentlemen:

Here’s the first graded writing task for your blogs (5%). Follow these directions and have a draft argument essay ready to edit this week if you can get it to me by Thursday. If it’s all ready to post after your corrections, then you will not need to come to class on Monday, 6 April.

Directions:
 Argument Writing of 200 - 250 words
 Find two reviews of the movie - one positive and one negative
 Describe the opinions in your report (paraphrase - do not quote!)
 Conclude with your own opinion about the movie
 Cite the two review sources in the text
 Include a bibliography with the two sources
 Read some other reviews of the movie at he hd1 blog.
 Use Google to find additional reviews

You will have this week and the week of Independent Learning to finish this assignment. If you write a draft blog post and get it to me this week by Thursday, I’ll return an edited version to you next week for you to post – and avoid class on Monday, 6 April.
Happy blogging,
The Fox

VoiceThread feedback and assignment this week

Gentlemen:

We will have out second Reading Summary this week. Come early on Monday to check out the reading and prepare for Tuesday's writing.

RE: VoiceTHread uploads: These students do not have their VoiceThread uploads and will not get credit for this section of your Blog- Abdulla Salem; Khaled; Mohamed AL Bufalah;and Mohamed Salem. Sorry, you had all week, and now it's too late to get any points.

These students: AbdulRahman; Ahmed AlHosani; Ali Baroot: Eissa; Mansoor; Mohamed Al Suwaidi; and Saif - I can't view your VoiceThread blogs, which means you need 'share' them and open the links to outside viewers. We'll discuss this on Monday.

See you on Monday and happy blogging!!

THe Fox

Water Lillies

VoiceThreads plus your IT opinion interview

Gentlemen:
This week there will be a slight change in the assignment as we concentrate on the GW summaries, and posting a VoiceThread site on the blogs, with your own opinion about global warming, plus your comments on two other Voicethread sites of your colleagues.

Remember to set your Voicethreads sites to ‘allow all visitors’, otherwise I can’t see your Voicethread to give you a grade.

We have another Reading summary next week; and then the first graded writing on your blog.
Good luck and I’ll look at your blogs after 9am on Tuesday.
The Fox

Good turn-out for 'Inconvenient Truth'

Gentlemen:
We had a good turnout for IT in the ADMC library and I hope you enjoyed your big-screen experience. On Tuesday 3 March we will be writing summaries of 100-150 words of the movie IT as Word documents first, then we'll post them to your blogspots.

Next week, 9+10 March we will write the second IT assignment, an opinion-review of the movie, using TWO outside review sources. Please find and print out two reviews to bring with you on Monday. We will write opinion posts in class, and introduce VoiceThread.com for you to record your own opinion about the film. If both of these assignments are completed by 9am Tuesday morning, then you will be excused from class that day. I'll check you Blogs on Tuesday.

See you in class, and happy Blogging!

Gregory (The Fox)