 |
| Words of Wisdom: Latin Proverb (Web Source) |
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Review: How I survived this semester
I was looking through our class announcements to see if I could find anything that struck me as reminiscent of this semester, and I somehow happened to find this:
This infographic is the perfect way for me to end the semester in one of my favorite classes! I love that this class offered so much more than than the opportunity to learn about a new subject and included opportunities for personal growth inside and outside the classroom. Thank you Laura for a great semester!
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Indian Epics Course Improvements
Planning Weeks
As a full-time working student, I feel like planning is a critical part of being able to successfully take on any amount of work under time constraints. I think for Week 2's planning, it could be really useful to have students look at important dates in their other classes and create an overall schedule for the semester that includes test dates, paper due dates, and any project or other important assignment due dates. I think this could also be combined with a tech tip to incorporate a calendar of the student's choice to plan out his or her semester (Canvas, Google, etc.). I'm not sure if you can embed a calendar on a blog, but I think another tech tip could include embedding this plan to the student's blog.
Story Planning
I completed some of the story planning posts this semester and I really enjoyed these posts. I have a hard time getting past the details of my writing, so writing stories can be very difficult under the various time constraints of the semester and working. I think it could be really useful if students utilized these posts to analyze their readings for the week, discuss what message they would like to convey with their story, and what elements they plan on using to accomplish that message.
Thematic Reading Units
I think this could be a great idea! It would be interesting to allow students a little bit of a choice with this option still, which I don't think would be too difficult because there are so many different themes in all of these readings. Here are a few themes/ways to organize the readings that I think could be useful:
Creation Stories
Love Stories
The Trimurti and Tridevi
Complicated Couples
(I think this option could allow students to pick one couple and follow the various complicated and intricate stories as the couple interacts throughout various lifetimes or in their nonhuman forms)
Dharma
Karma
Maya
(I could see Dharma, Karma, and Maya being combined, but I also think they're complex enough that they could be kept separate)
War Stories
Exploring Religious Traditions
(I started exploring the difference between Vaishnavism and Shaivism, although I know there are other branches of Hinduism that could also be considered)
Cause and Effect
I think it could be interesting to have students trace the causes and effects of certain events through the stories and try to identify the driving force behind those events, like dharma, karma, or maya. I was thinking this could be an interesting extra credit option or maybe an option for story planning.
As a full-time working student, I feel like planning is a critical part of being able to successfully take on any amount of work under time constraints. I think for Week 2's planning, it could be really useful to have students look at important dates in their other classes and create an overall schedule for the semester that includes test dates, paper due dates, and any project or other important assignment due dates. I think this could also be combined with a tech tip to incorporate a calendar of the student's choice to plan out his or her semester (Canvas, Google, etc.). I'm not sure if you can embed a calendar on a blog, but I think another tech tip could include embedding this plan to the student's blog.
Story Planning
I completed some of the story planning posts this semester and I really enjoyed these posts. I have a hard time getting past the details of my writing, so writing stories can be very difficult under the various time constraints of the semester and working. I think it could be really useful if students utilized these posts to analyze their readings for the week, discuss what message they would like to convey with their story, and what elements they plan on using to accomplish that message.
Thematic Reading Units
I think this could be a great idea! It would be interesting to allow students a little bit of a choice with this option still, which I don't think would be too difficult because there are so many different themes in all of these readings. Here are a few themes/ways to organize the readings that I think could be useful:
Creation Stories
Love Stories
The Trimurti and Tridevi
Complicated Couples
(I think this option could allow students to pick one couple and follow the various complicated and intricate stories as the couple interacts throughout various lifetimes or in their nonhuman forms)
Dharma
Karma
Maya
(I could see Dharma, Karma, and Maya being combined, but I also think they're complex enough that they could be kept separate)
War Stories
Exploring Religious Traditions
(I started exploring the difference between Vaishnavism and Shaivism, although I know there are other branches of Hinduism that could also be considered)
Cause and Effect
I think it could be interesting to have students trace the causes and effects of certain events through the stories and try to identify the driving force behind those events, like dharma, karma, or maya. I was thinking this could be an interesting extra credit option or maybe an option for story planning.
Growth Mindset: Multiple Intelligences
I love learning about the different theories on how people grow their capabilities and trying to understand how this could help me with my own study habits or how this could help me retain various things I learn at work more effectively. Although I think everyone has unique strengths, no one is absolutely one type of learner or absolutely intelligent in only one way. Rather it is a mix of these different ways of learning and utilizing this knowledge that creates a person's unique abilities. I also believe that it is critically important to continue improving your way of learning and utilizing what you learned in a way that forces you to confront the areas you are weak in. By growing in all ways, you can prepare yourself to overcome challenging classes with professors that have different teaching styles than what you are accustomed to or taking on tasks at work that force you to utilize skills you would not otherwise utilize.
 |
| Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Infrographic by Mark Bennett (Web Source) |
Learning Challenge: Harry Potter!
I was really excited about the Harry Potter quote because I just watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I also agree with JK Rowling; our decisions lead us down a path that can build ourselves and others up, while our capabilities are simply the tools we use to accomplish those tasks, making them less important because they can also be built up our destroyed. However, our choices are a direct reflection of our character.
 |
| Quote from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling (Web Source) |
Learning Challenge: Creating Yourself and the World Around You
I liked both of these quotes because they address how powerful people are as the creators of themselves and as the creators of the world they live in.
 |
| Quotes by Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss (Web Source) |
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)