What happens when man uses woman's email?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-happened-when-a-man-signed-work-emails-using-a-female-name-for-a-week_us_58c2ce53e4b054a0ea6a4066

Your Key Issues from Johnson...

Johnson's Argument(s):

Johnson argues that diversity is only a problem in that people USE that diversity to judge and oppress. 

Johnson argue that there is a problem

Johnson argue that we really need to confront these demons (such as race) we need to be uncomfortable in order to find a solution

it is easy for privileged people to take a back seat to solving the social problems but they are the ones who have the power to start the change.

we are stuck in (our own privilege) our ways of discrimination and we much come together as a society to change...

We need to stop sugar coating and talk about the uncomfortable realities of racism, classism, sexism, gender , sexual orientation, language...

people without privielge "don't have the power to change entrenched systems of privilege by themselves" (10)

The struggle and pain are worth it (13)

We can all be a part of the solution

The categories themselves (not the individual people) have power and so people can gain or lose power if they move between categories.

Here are some of the key issues you noted in your blog posts for class:

"The luxury of obliviousness"

I believe the author is arguing that the trouble with diversity is that it is "produced by a world organized in ways that encourage people to use difference to include and exclude, reward or punish, credit or discredit, elevate or oppress, value or devalue, leave alone or harass." (Johnson, 19) 

"The author argues that its easy for the white privileged heterosexual male to take a back seat and not work on solving these problems, when in reality they are the ones with the power to do so. "


"In his book Privilege, Power, and Difference (2001), Allan Johnson argues that the varying degrees of privilege have developed into an enormous societal issue from the collective people, and that it is everyone's responsibility to directly engage themselves with being an active part of the solution to overcome oppression. The only way in which we may directly engage ourselves to overcome this oppression is to be aware of our own set of privileges, be willing to take risks and do the hard, and often uncomfortable, work."

"We can't help but identify others that way because it has been ingrained into us...maybe not by choice, but more so by chance."

""But now it's ours (the legacy he writes about), it's up to us to decide how we're going to deal with it before we collectively pass it along to the generations that will follow ours". "

"The simple truth is that when I go shopping, I'll probably get waited on faster and better than she will".  How the heck does he know that?

MINI LESSON FROM DANYA'S BLOG: 
Chris Rock: How to imbed a YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=0k_kIpxfWxA.

Watermelon Man: How to make a hyperlink

Welcome to FNED 502!

Welcome to this FNED 502 blogging adventure!

Sometime during or after our first night of class, you will set up your own blog to use this semester for all of your Talking Points assignments, and to keep track of your thoughts about any of the issues we cover.

A blog is your very own, personal online journal. It is public, in that I and your classmates can read it and comment on it, but it is your space  and you can control most everything about it. (If you want to make it private so that *only* members of this class can read it, you can follow the instructions here).

In the context of this course, your blog has two purposes:

1) Your blog will provide a space for you to keep all of your weekly writing assignments over the course of our six weeks together. You will not hand in written assignments to me each class period; rather you will post them on your blog. In this sense, your blog is like an assignment notebook that you will use as you read and prepare for class each week. You will also be posting any additional thoughts you have: responses to class discussion, after thoughts, things you forgot to say in class, relevant experiences you have, etc.

But importantly, your blog is a public space and as you post (and comment on others'), you will gain a much richer understanding of everything we read and discuss in class. I want you to think of it as interactive and intertextual in that way.

2) Creating your own blog will also introduce you to the blogisphere if you don't know this place already. I hope that you will discover creative educational uses for this online medium. You will see how easy it is to use blogger.com, and perhaps it will inspire you to bring blogs into your own classroom.

To start your own blog, you will go to:

www.blogger.com

If you do not already have a Google account, you will need to create one.  If you do have a Google account, sign in in the box at the right.  This will allow you to create your own blog on a site called blogger.com.   

Click the button that says NEW BLOG (you will see this even if you have blogged before) and follow the instructions to get started.  Don't forget your Username and Password!! You will need them to login everytime. Please write them down on the top of your syllabus so you don't forget!  

As you fill in the info, you will be asked to give your blog a TITLE. This title will appear at the top of your blog. (Mine is called "FNED 502: Social Issues")

Then, you need to choose an address: http://_______.blogspot.com  This will be the web address associated with your site. You can call it anything you like. Be clever or simple (or both) -- it is up to you. Write it down so you don't forget it! (You can also find it later on in your Dashboard where all of your future blogs will be listed.)  

You will also need to choose a design template for your blog. Look through the options listed and see what appeals to you. You can change this later so don't worry too much about it initially... Once you have the account set up, you can start posting. A “posting” is an entry on your blog. (For clarification, you have one blog, but many postings). Give the post a title and then compose as you would any journal entry. When you are finished, hit the button at the bottom that says Publish. It will not appear on your blog until you publish it. You can always go back and edit old posts and create new ones.

Your First Post:

Your first post should be a short introduction to you: who are you, where you teach, what graduate program you are in, what you do in your spare time, etc. (Just a short paragraph — no big deal). You will post the rest of the entries as they are due (see course syllabus for dates), or whenever you have something to say.  

When you are done creating your site and posting your first entry, please come back to this blog and post a comment at the end of my first posting (scroll down) that includes your blog address so that I can post it in the link list to the right.

Some Tips and Helpful Hints:

• Once you are in your blog, look at the top right corner of the screen. If you click on the word DESIGN, you will be able to make design changes, create new posts, edit old posts, etc. (You can only do this if you are logged in to your blog.)
• Once you are in the DESIGN screen, you can do all kinds of things to make your blog a bit more interesting. Change your fonts and colors, edit a post, change your settings. See the tabs at the top of the screen for all kinds of options.
• Poke around online and make a list of websites related to education, media literacy, social justice or anything else relevant and post them on your blog. You can add all kinds of things by ADDING A GADGET from your LAYOUT screen.
• Just do the best you can with this. If you get stuck, don't fret... I am happy to help you anytime as you work on getting this started. And remember: you can't break it. It is just a blog. Everything can be changed if need be!

Good luck!! 

 LB :)