Author Archives: sbertolani

Degand’s article discusses his study of two Black teenage male students with different backgrounds, living in two different neighborhoods in New York, and compares how they view social success, their career goals and their media experiences.  The study examines the differences in their community and school demographics, how it is perceived and the impact it hasContinue reading “03/03 Blog Post”

Preston’s writing explores Nasir Jones’ album Illmatic in depth.  He examines the written and oral aspects of certain songs, unpacking lyrics and how the rap artist’s complex intricate rhymes, symbols and patterns tell his stories.  The video of the song Chris Columbus is the often untold perspective of slavery in colonial expansion of the Americas, the resultingContinue reading “02/27 Blog Posts”

I created a guild but couldn’t figure out how to do anything with it. I was able to progress a few more levels in the technologies but it didn’t change anything with the guilds. After I created my own I wasn’t able to figure out how to join another. I didn’t progress very far inContinue reading “02/27 FoE journal post”

With another player’s guidance I figured out how to reach the technology that allowed me to set up a guild. I set one up and named it PeaceKeeper. I originally was trying to find Armando’s Digital Learner’s guild but after scrolling the available guilds to join I couldn’t find it so that’s when I createdContinue reading “02/25 FoE journal post”

Dunbar’s essay discusses the racial assumptions around rap music and the ways it gets tied to crime.  It’s been offered as evidence in court cases to support criminal claims, unlike other styles of music.  Similar to what was stated by Alexander, Dunbar illustrates how racism has become more subtle and covert.  With “culture-centered racist ideology” negative views ofContinue reading “02/25 Blog Post”

I have not joined a guild yet. I am not far enough along and I have quite figured out how to get to the proper stage that allows me to participate in a guild. I need to work on that this weekend. The pace of this game is slow for me, as it has beenContinue reading “02/20 FoE journal post (guild and game pace)”

Ladson-Billings discusses the need for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to be “fluid” because students and teachers should be growing.  She talks about the varied way her teachings were applied and how elements were lost.  She then uses an example of a class integrating hip hop culture with student teaching and its success in engaging relevant critical concepts.  Winn’s articleContinue reading “02/20 Blog Post”

I have a variety of buildings in my city. I have several huts, a long house, barracks, a couple memorials, a pottery barn, a stone circle, a stilt house and a hunter house. I planted a few trees and there are roads. Adding trees made the people happy. I was able to increase supplies withContinue reading “02/18 FoE journal post (city layout, battles, and guild expeditions)”

Alexander illustrates how mass incarceration is the way the US has continued a racial caste system or “the New Jim Crow”.  It is legalized discrimination.  Incarceration is a way of excluding a large population of African Americans from a number of rights as a US citizen.  Once convicted as a felon discrimination with employment, housing, education, public assistanceContinue reading “02/18 Blog Post”

The storyline was very helpful in the beginning of the game and when I set up a new world. I had no idea what to do when I started and it helped me figure out what to do. The instructions were pretty clear. The daily task of clicking on each building to give me coinsContinue reading “02/13 FoE journal post (storylines, tasks and events)”