today is monday october fifth and we are sitting in the garden. my heart is pounding. oh yeah. one one thousand, two two one thousand. thumbs up. jazz is jazzin from Jesse's computer speakers. low low, low low high low low. sax.
TREY CHECK THIS OUT, Today, December 4 https://transfigureoureducation.pbwiki.com/Battle-of-Books
Mt. Zion is incredibly awesome. I never knew how many people they help. Talk about community literacy ... Mt. Zion is a Magnolia extending limbs of service. Children are buds in bloom. Staff is the rain to grow from. Knowledge is sunshine.
Have you heard the news? Good things come in groups. The potential for Mt. Zion Human Services to transfigure human life is touching. A breeze is felt in positive interaction, and the day is stifling.
Mount Zion Human Services, Florida
Academy Prep Center of Tampa, Ybor City
Public and private schools
Project showcase
Brian's project http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/greatest+hits
Marshall McLuhan Chapter 5, connection to text and project with Rich http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/McLuhan-Chapter-7
Marshall McLuhan, Chapter 7, Challenge and Collapse: Nemesis of Creativity
"The great discovery of the nineteenth century was the discovery of the technique of discovery. The technique of starting with the thing to be discovered and working back. Starting with the effect and then inventing a poem, painting, or building that would have just that effect and no other." page 93
http://sapphireseven.pbwiki.com/f/McLuDiscTech1.jpg
Week Eleven, Day After Elections! While in class
Wiki How-To's
CoFounder of pbwiki
http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/WeekSeven
http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/People-Making-Difference
http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/20-Oct-2008-Academy-Prep
Community Literacy: conscious, informed, not oblivious, understand, comprehend
Searching for truth
ART
Learn of life from life itself.
PORTFOLIO http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Amanda-Unit-Portfolio
Grading Peers
Case Study Yay! http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Case-Electives-Study-Draft I need help adding music, I got the zip file but how to make it play?
Unit One Cover
Elective Case Study. I'm getting there! Draft 13 October
Stick Figure Electives
Rap Master Electives
Poor Rich Earth
Peer Review Myself
14 October, 2008
Hey Trey will you look at thisAmanda's Big Time Remix...Oh yeah when you get a chance...it's a for sure tangent, but I like it. And I don't know what to do with it. Now I am going to attempt, relentlessly, to edit and form a case study. I am a terrible editor! I can't decide what is critical information to keep because it all interests me! I just don't know what interests my audience. Help! : ) Thank you.
"Everybody can make a remix." -Dr. Trey Conner
"Work and play should not be different." -Dr. Trey Conner
Start with something that stirs inside. Impact. Feelings. Impression. It's all about the senses. How do you feel? One thing I hope you always do is be honest with your feelings, we must test the senses to connect with people--stimulation. "Senses. Senses. Senses."
REFLECTIONS
Academy prep essay: Reviewed in class wednesday september 24, 2008 yay!
http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Academy-Prep-Essay
Peer Review, September 24, 2008
Patti
http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Patti-Peer-Review-by-me
Felesha
http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Felesha-Peer-Review-by-me
Rich
http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Rich4
Prep Essay http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Academy-Prep-Study
Profile! Academy Prep Center of Tampa
http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Academy-Prep
PB wiki
PB...peanut butter. sticky. caramel. organic. natural. chunky. smooth. creamy. spreadable.
A Melisma is a flutter in the voice--Aretha Franklin--at the beginning or end of a word in a song. Used to change meaning and create or play with emotion.
What is a RIFF?
Rikky Rooksby (2002, p.6-7) states that "A riff is a short, repeated, memorable musical phrase, often pitched low on the guitar, which focuses much of the energy and excitement of a rock song." -Wikipedia
A riff can be a hook, if the riff meets the definition of a hook: "a musical idea, a passage or phrase, that is believed to be appealing and make the song stand out", and "catch the ear of the listener" (Covach 2005, p.71). -Wikipedia
1: an ostinato phrase (as in jazz) typically supporting a solo improvisation ; also : a piece based on such a phrase.
Ostinato: a musical figure repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a composition. -Merriam-Webster online dictionary
My next step in the case study process.
I am learning about a private school in the heart of Ybor City. The school is classified as a non-profit organization, so tuition for students is free. I want to know the reason for funds being distributed so unevenly between schools. What is interesting is that private schools, obviously, are funded from individual accounts. Public schools are funded from government. I thought I could compare these two schools--Incarnation and Monroe--art programs and pinpoint key differences between the privileged or over deserving programs against underprivileged, for use of a clear portrayal, poor programs. Well, I am now hit from left field by a school called Academy Prep. This place has managed to weed out academically gifted and yearning students from their poor communities and nurture them from 5-8 grade through interviews, admission exams and performance. I am going to observe the campus today.
Extinguish the mind & let the resonance do the composing. -Dr. Trey Conner
Case Study Elements, September 17,2008
How do find arguments and how to approach them.
3 paper copies for good ol' fashion paper scratch.
Rough draft workshop next week.
What kind of arrangement to put it in.
Reflection piece on what peer response.
What style of case study is most suitable to my case?
Hallmark of case studies.
Keep crowd sourcing vibe alive.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.welie.com/patterns/images/casestudy-oyster-small.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php%3FpatternID%3Dcase-study&h=326&w=500&sz=33&hl=en&start=17&um=1&usg=__bIsOG_KuBUCHmav7HVKbYQDaqGM=&tbnid=1E9S9chNaEknvM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcase%2Bstudy%2Belements%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
http://www.intime.uni.edu/ovcs/pedagogy/transcript1.htm
http://www.imaginecruises.com.au/dolphin-research/images/management-elements.gif
http://www.massin.nl/sourcing-images/SSOA-sourcing26.jpg
For Trey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVNqV2i_szw
Ethnography! Middle School Interview
http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Goslee%20Interview
Cumulus http://pilotingpedagogies.pbwiki.com/Cumulus-Clouds
This is practice
Week One: Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AFDHia51Do
Week One, Creative Commons License
If I am going to be creative and create something, I would like to communicate with a person about where he or she would like to take my masterpiece. After chatting, we can come to terms & perhaps even work together. I do not mind sharing with people, my issue is that I want to freely exercise my creations at liberty and not encounter a scenario like this: Susie Q decides to use a photo I uploaded of the Eiffel Tower for her new Prada advertisement in March 2009. Well, October 2009 comes around and I want to use my Eiffel Tower snap shot in my portfolio for an art contest in downtown Tampa. All of the sudden, I cannot use my prized photograph because it appeared on the fourth page of Vogue in March. That would be disheartening. Instead, I would like to speak with Susie Q before she “steals” my photo and get reimbursed for my finger clicking talents. Then, I cannot be at ease during my photography contest. I like attribution, noncommercial and no derivative works. I like Attribution because I’d like to get credit for my work. Noncommercial because that would be a bummer if Bill Gates profits a billion dollars off of my photo by using it as a print. No derivative works because I would want someone to ask for altering a creative work I display. Walt Disney turned out to be less creative than I was ever informed of and now I think Walt Disney should not be the Scrooge in reference to allowing others to build off their ideals; they could still make a profit. Walt Disney should support Creative Commons license if that is how they rocketed into Mad Hatter and It’s a Small World After All land.
Week One: Wikipedia Exercise
According to my Mac dictionary, sustainability is something able to be maintained at a certain rate or level. To me, sustainability means that something is able to last for a prolonged time; through difficulties; straight through ups and downs. Something can be used over and over again. It can create itself. An example is when a fruit tree grows fruit & drops the fruit in the soil, becoming fertilizer & aiding further in the growth/additional growth of the tree. It’s all about efficiency. I chose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act because I like the letters DMC&A. This took me to a page about copyright infringement. I click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet which is about the Internet because hey, I have never read anything about the Internet and it is something I use every day. The Internet is a global systems of computers; computers are more like people talking and not just hardware since humans do indeed type in all the information to a computer. I clicked on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs because I have a blog in all my classes & I knew nothing about it until this semester of school. Ah! Blog is a website in which individuals create their own narrative. Sweet! I clicked Elephant’s Dream because, what the hell is Elephant’s Dream... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_Dream. Oh, it’s a movie. The picture is scary, I am clicking back. Ooh la la, education. It is so cool that I can edit a page on Wikipedia, something I used to think was an encyclopedia. It should be opinionpedia. Next I clicked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_arts because I like performing arts. I am lead to a page on dance and music and theater. Copyright protection is used
in the performing arts and even in athletic activities.
Week One: Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media
Human attention is the best resource. Community formation can be the medium, the way in which we are all connected. “It is not the machine, but what one does with the machine, that is the meaning or message.” There is an enormous difference in sound between an electric and acoustic guitar, especially if Jimmy Hendrix is battling Jewel. Likewise, what is a computer if there is no one overseeing operations? The most important thing a computer does is link to other computers. (Conner) McLuhan gives narrative of horse to train to plane. Likewise, A-track to tape to CD. (Somnambulism: sleepwalking. Latin somnus ‘sleep’ + ambulare ‘to walk’). “The medium is the message.” OK. It used to be that the content was the message. OK. ~Medium>Message>Content>Acceptance. People believe doctors before believing bums. Medium--CNN broadcasts a clip on (message) top-quality staplers...Content is the idea of top-quality staplers...and (Acceptance) viewer’s now believe in the top-quality staplers. In other words, CNN, the medium, determines acceptance or rejection, of a message. Always look at the way the medium is the message. I can use this text for a case study. “We are entering the new age of education that is programmed for discovery rather than instruction.” Yes, this is true for some, but children with no means for creative possibilities have nothing to discover but a lack in life. Private school doors open to a world of endless possibility. It is mandatory that every child owns a lap top. Students hang their back packs on blue elephant shaped hooks that they decorated the week before. Monday is music class and piano lessons are on the schedule. Tuesday is physical education and the volleyball nets are in place. Wednesday is art class and pottery awaits. Thursday they choose between dance or theatre. Friday is physical education, the volleyball tournament championship. Public school doors open to strict curriculum and no loitering in the hallways. Monday is homeroom and half the class is present. Tuesday is computer class and the teacher shows The Matrix. Wednesday is drama class on an empty stage with decaying scripts no materials for props. Thursday is band with plastic recorders. Friday is art with, wait, there is no art class. To say we are in an age of discovery is true for some, only some, because do not have instruction or opportunity for discovery.
Week One: Lawrence Lessig Ideas
I relate Lessig’s theory of control of commons and cable TV to McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message. The medium gives the message. People must remember that the layers of cable TV are owned. Cable companies decide what to run into your house (code). Broadcasted shows are copyrighted (content). The wires and TV set--inside the house--are owned (physical). Decentralized (away from administrative center)=unowned. Controlled =owned. Unowned must mean uncontrollable, but not always unacknowledged because the medium can bring acknowledgment to something uncontrollable. Promoting control means to constrict freedom. This text can enlighten ignorant reality TV show fanatics.
Week One: Adam Banks Searching
The idea that most parents want a good education for their children: "My father frequently noted that if my siblings and I didn't take school seriously, we wouldn't even be able to get jobs as gas station attendants." Yes. While reading I kept thinking of the Women's Right's Movement and how innevitably, we are all disconnected and share differing life experience. Banks should just throw his thoughts onto the big screen because it seems to me we believe what we see. (Metonym: a word or expression used as a substitute for something else.) Digital divide as metonym for America's larger racial divide. Digital, representation, divide, split. America's racial divide in reference to technological access. OK. People struggle for information equality.
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