Student Research and Writing Conference Reflection

     I assisted to the student research and writing conference on wednesday the 26th, and listen to the panels of "Using Technology to Enhance Learning" (1:50-2:20), supervised by professor Frank Flanagan.
 
  The panel was about how to use technology inside the classroom and outside to maintain a effective contact with your classmates and the professor.  They focused more on the use of Google+ and its Google Drive.  This kind of technology gives us the advantage of creating a paperless classroom, which I find good for the environment and, for people like me that don't like to have a lot of paper in my folders, it's a success.  The most intriguing fact that caught my eye was the use of Google Drive to share your work with others, but not only that, they can revise and correct it or edit the electronic paper and when they send it back, you can see all the editing that they did, from erasing a word to implementing a new font.  Even if their was no editing done in the paper it would let you know.

     They use it outside the classroom effectively by maintaining a organize environment because it saves your work and the work given by the professor in the cloud network and you can access it from any computer, tablet or even phone.  Not a lot of professors use this technology even though it is very good for the student and for them.

A Room with a View

     In the movie "A Room with a View", written by E.M Foster, their are two characters which are tourists. These are Ms. Lucy Honeychurch and Ms. Charlotte Bartlett.  You can clearly differ from the others that they are the tourist in the first chapter of the movie, when they are in Florence, Italy.  I believe you can clearly see a traveler's like experience when Lucy goes to the town square, where she witnessed the man being stabbed.  She observes everything, and takes photo's of the monuments and the people in the square, something every traveler does to remember the place.

     Like in "A Small Place", Lucy feels like and outsider, not knowing what was the food they served at the "penssione".  Ms. Bartlett,  having a feeling of being a bit disgust of a new smell, the smell of Florence.  Like most tourist, the locals can notice that you are one, like the man smoking in the ally notice Ms. Bartlett and Ms. Lavish were lost traveler's.  But unlike them, that tried to flirt with Ms. Bartlett and Ms. Lavish, Jamaica Kincaid would feel certainly uncomfortable with the British women in Antigua or the British women in Italy.  I believe Jamaica Kincaid would respond to the British women in France as a ugly person in a beautiful place, the person would stand out from the original crowd.

     Three quotes they mencion in the movie that relates to being a tourist were, "The young English girl, transfigured by Italy." (Ms. Lavish).  This quotes foreshadowed what was going to happen to Ms. Honeychurch, she was transformed by the love she felt towards Mr. George Emerson.  The second quote indeed has a connotation of implying that Ms. Honeychurch would fall for Ms. Emerson, the quote is, "I have a theory that their is something in the Italian landscape which incline, even the most 'stolick' nature of romance." (Ms. Lavish).  The last quote is, "Italy and London are the places were I feel I truly belong." (Mr. Cecil Vyse).  This quotes feels like what Kincaid said in "A Small Place", that home is where your heart truly is.