What an amazing world has been opened to me as a result of taking this class: one of the best decisions I have made recently. Despite my overwhelming schedule, I have learned that I am a baby in a field of flowers each taking me to a different perspective on the world!
I learned a neat project from Ken about 2012 that I am going to steal. Using the wonder wheel and the Library of Congress will help me create this project which I think will fascinate my senior English class.
I also loved the San Mateo High School teacher's ppt. on San Mateo High School beating us! I hope she puts the ppt. on anamoto.
I look forward to learning to use anamoto to teach my students so that they can create video stories.
Stay healthy!!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Internet Reading Strategies HW due 10/27/09
Wow what a terrific article explaining how to teach on-line reading strategies. I am going to teach my students the lesson as outlined in Julie Coiro's article. My juniors are researching an American Culture Project and I bet they are as lost as I have been in finding and synthesizing information. I probably have better knowledge regarding credible sources than they do, but we are all subject to hoaxes. The internet is feeling more and more like an ocean filled with drops of water (information, much of it bogus)which one must swim through in order to make sense of what one is looking for. The graphic organizers in figure 1 and figure 2 are like boats in this vast ocean of information. I can't wait to get in that boat with my students, using this article as oars, in order to teach and learn at the same time.
I am so glad I am taking this class!! (and I am not grade grubbing!)
Wow what a terrific article explaining how to teach on-line reading strategies. I am going to teach my students the lesson as outlined in Julie Coiro's article. My juniors are researching an American Culture Project and I bet they are as lost as I have been in finding and synthesizing information. I probably have better knowledge regarding credible sources than they do, but we are all subject to hoaxes. The internet is feeling more and more like an ocean filled with drops of water (information, much of it bogus)which one must swim through in order to make sense of what one is looking for. The graphic organizers in figure 1 and figure 2 are like boats in this vast ocean of information. I can't wait to get in that boat with my students, using this article as oars, in order to teach and learn at the same time.
I am so glad I am taking this class!! (and I am not grade grubbing!)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Search and Seek HW 10/13
I found this homework to be disjointed and confusing because I could not answer the quiz questions after reading the search strategies. I feel pretty stupid, especially when I lost the entire answer page twice.
What I found fascinating was the levels of information I could find when I googled search engines. I found a paranormal site that I could have played in all night. But back to the homework. Even though search engines are amazing for finding what one looks for and more, I was surprised at how well a student or user must know English. Finding specific information does require reading strategies--using synonyms, keeping the question simple.
Another bit of info. which surprised me was the IP address changes and is used by Google to get the requested info. back to the computer that sent it.
What I found fascinating was the levels of information I could find when I googled search engines. I found a paranormal site that I could have played in all night. But back to the homework. Even though search engines are amazing for finding what one looks for and more, I was surprised at how well a student or user must know English. Finding specific information does require reading strategies--using synonyms, keeping the question simple.
Another bit of info. which surprised me was the IP address changes and is used by Google to get the requested info. back to the computer that sent it.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Hispanic Month at the Smithsonian Institute
INTRODUCTION TO THE MANUEL CARRILLO VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
"REVEALING PERSONAL IDENTITY: THE INDIGENOUS VISION OF
MANUEL CARRILLO"
In the mid Twentieth Century, the sociopolitical landscape of post-Revolutionary Mexico was a time of great change and effort toward establishing a unified mexican cultural identity. In this process, photographs have played a crucial role in establishing a form of visual language that has contributed to the reinforcement and formation of identity. These photographic models of representation then become critical artifacts for cultural understandings that inform interpretation.
ENTER
"Revealing Personal Identity: The Indigenous Vision of Manuel Carrillo" is about photography and identity. Melissa Carrillo, who is an artist herself, and guest curator of the exhibit, wanted to bring Carrillo’s own identity quest to life through the interpretation of his photographs as text. While developing the exhibition we concluded that a new ethnographic approach was needed in order to show how the Indigenous is constructed through photography. But it had to have the personal feeling, the "sentimiento" we very much wanted to explore and transmit. Terms such as displacement, border, location, explored in this project, come alive as a combination of images and poetry, not solely an academic discourse.
The challenge of museum exhibitions, virtual or otherwise, is to provoke new thinking, inform, and tell a story. We hope that this exhibition makes you think about Mexico as portrayed through Carrillo’s lens, about the indigenous Mexican, and about identity as a social construct.
This exhibition project is a collaboration between the Special Collections Department of the University of Texas at El Paso Library and the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the following Smithsonian staff for their continuous support and advise, their patience, and their unconditional good humor:
Kathryn Cornelius, Rafael Peña, Mignon Erixon-Stanford, and Farleigh Earhart.
Our special gratitude to Melissa Carrillo for her absolute commitment to this project and hard work, to Tam Muro for his thorough and insightful advise, and to Michael J. Tuttle, web master in the Smithsonian Webmasters Office.
Copyright©2003 Smithsonian Institution
ENTER
http://latino.si.edu/virtualgallery/manuelcarrillo/mclandscape.htm
"REVEALING PERSONAL IDENTITY: THE INDIGENOUS VISION OF
MANUEL CARRILLO"
In the mid Twentieth Century, the sociopolitical landscape of post-Revolutionary Mexico was a time of great change and effort toward establishing a unified mexican cultural identity. In this process, photographs have played a crucial role in establishing a form of visual language that has contributed to the reinforcement and formation of identity. These photographic models of representation then become critical artifacts for cultural understandings that inform interpretation.
ENTER
"Revealing Personal Identity: The Indigenous Vision of Manuel Carrillo" is about photography and identity. Melissa Carrillo, who is an artist herself, and guest curator of the exhibit, wanted to bring Carrillo’s own identity quest to life through the interpretation of his photographs as text. While developing the exhibition we concluded that a new ethnographic approach was needed in order to show how the Indigenous is constructed through photography. But it had to have the personal feeling, the "sentimiento" we very much wanted to explore and transmit. Terms such as displacement, border, location, explored in this project, come alive as a combination of images and poetry, not solely an academic discourse.
The challenge of museum exhibitions, virtual or otherwise, is to provoke new thinking, inform, and tell a story. We hope that this exhibition makes you think about Mexico as portrayed through Carrillo’s lens, about the indigenous Mexican, and about identity as a social construct.
This exhibition project is a collaboration between the Special Collections Department of the University of Texas at El Paso Library and the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the following Smithsonian staff for their continuous support and advise, their patience, and their unconditional good humor:
Kathryn Cornelius, Rafael Peña, Mignon Erixon-Stanford, and Farleigh Earhart.
Our special gratitude to Melissa Carrillo for her absolute commitment to this project and hard work, to Tam Muro for his thorough and insightful advise, and to Michael J. Tuttle, web master in the Smithsonian Webmasters Office.
Copyright©2003 Smithsonian Institution
ENTER
http://latino.si.edu/virtualgallery/manuelcarrillo/mclandscape.htm
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
What have I learned today?
I have learned to take my picture, how to create a g-mail account, igoogle and gadgets, and that I am not proficient at assimilating this overwhelming amount of new information. I need time to play until finding these "places" becomes second nature. I love the term Learning Concierge!
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