Hybrid Class: Social Networking

I facebook. I love it. I love how silly the quizzes are, I love updated my status with ridiculous limericks, I love it all. I find it soothing to see others tell me they're up at 3AM doing stupid stuff. I also love reading people's problems in their notes.

Of course I know out of the 300+ 'friends' I have I really only actually talk to about 20 of them on a consistent basis. The rest are previous classmates or even previous best friends that it is nice to see their life is as boring as mine.

The main reason I use facebook is to keep in loose contact with these people. That way if I ever need something from them, or they need something from myself, we can contact one another. It is a good tool to use for, well, networking.

However, the main reason I use facebook is to kill time while I'm at work. I love looking at my 'friends' ridiculous pictures that they feel the need to take every time they go to a party. Why do they do this? I have no clue. It is so repetitive, so boring. Maybe I'm letting my hatred of the college scene come through. But maybe the college scene includes facebook.

Overall I think facebook could be positive, but it could be easily abused.

Adam

My youth team

I have been coaching youth football for a few weeks now. It's a recreational league with 8-10 year old boys on my team. Now, I'm not new to coaching footy. I've been helping coaching JV girls at Chandler High School for three years now (all three focusing on goalkeeper training, last year being promoted to assistant coach), but man, I am having a difficult time.

The fact that I do take the basic skills for granted, I find it difficult to even run a practice because half of the players cannot pass correctly. But there are two players that stand out. One played for a club team and his father is an Israli who lived in England playing footy. Then Marc, a family friend I have been training for a while (I coach with his older sister).

Marc gets trained by me as a keeper, but has a natural skill for scoring and more importantly assisting goals. He really an amazing player.

We have our third game (one win and loss currently), but we should do well the rest of this training season. They only play 6 games to get them ready for summer and fall leagues.

Adam

Hyrbid Class 9

As a member of the Gen Y generation I feel that I am completely tech savvy. I'm no genius, and still cannot figure loads of stuff out, but I can get by. I put myself in the 87th percentile. I find it interesting that older generations are catching up. My parents are becoming more frequent internet users, and have even started to text. I think that my generation takes for granted what we were given to us. I know that right now I am sitting in my office, with duel monitors, a blackberry in my shirt pocket, music playing, and right after I finish this I'll be streaming some video (yes, I'm a terrible employee).

As for google...I think it is the most (along with wikipedia) amazing source for the new millenium. I do think it teaches us many things, but I agree that spending too much time on the web is a bad thing. But when I'm researching for a paper I can search endless databases instead of my local libraries old journals. So yeah, I am smarter because I have access to so much material.

I think the internet has increased my subject knowledge leaps and bounds beyond a typical classroom.

Adam