I’m really excited about writing our research paper. Although I do believe it will be difficult only because there is lots of planning and organizing. I love that we get to choose our own topics. I think that is the best way to get people excited about writing. When we wrote our Rhetorical Analysis we got to choose our own topics. I thought it was so cool because when I write on topics, ideas, that I find interesting I get excited about the writing process.
My topic is a little out there, similar to my Rhetorical Analysis topic on Wedding Rings. My topic is Yoga Classrooms should have writing elements: An alternative to traditional meditation, students can write.
I believe this is going to be a very exciting topic because I have so many paths I can take this down. My outline for the paper goes as follows:
Introduction
What is Yoga? Specifically Hatha Yoga, breathing techniques, mediation, and other elements, maybe spiritual?
What is Expressivism? Why did it die out? Can I bring it back.
Yoga Intertwined in obstacles in life
a. PT Practice---- Jstor article how teachers incorporate yoga into daily exercises
b. ADHA KIDS--- how these kids and yoga have benefited and changed
c. MS disease--- how Yoga has helped with this disease
Now adding YOGA with COMPOSITION
If yoga works with those different elements/obstacles then what about yoga?
How do we form YOGA and COMPOSTION together?
Yoga sessions---writing
Peter Elbow Free writing
Meditation and writing as one
Conclusion
My audience will be yoga teachers in general. I thought about doing students but I think writing for the teachers… maybe teachers could actually use this practice in their own classroom one day… and I personally would love to have a class where I can add composition and yoga together as a form of meditation.
Yoga a slow down practice to reflect on one’s life
Composition slow down, reflect on one’s thoughts, feelings, ideas, ideology… diction, syntax, morphology, morphemes…
Mediation is reflection: you can reflect in writing and in the mind... We should introduce expressivism within yoga and composition
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
iberating classroom moment or a confining
I feel that online distant education takes away from social learning. Learning in a classroom where students and teachers can interact I believe is very important. Students need to learn material presented by the teacher, in the books, or online YES, but there is another kind of learning that is just as important and crucial for the working world and that is social.
Interaction and communication with other people is extremely important and classroom settings allow students to learn these vital skills over the years they are enrolled in school. If all classes were held online than all the interaction with peers and authority figures (teachers) those skills would not be learned.
I believe that classroom settings teach students so much more than just material presented for students to acknowledge and accept. Classrooms are meant for discussion and peer and teacher relationships develop and intimacy happens in classrooms when exploring and discussing one’s own ideas, thoughts, and ideology. Take away the classroom, teacher, students, and replace it with a monitor that you can only type to… well a lot is lost.
Using TOPIC, MOO’s IM’s or Second Life as a teaching tool and strategy I do not find helpful, especially for student s who already have trouble focusing in a classroom due to a learning disability. People need interaction and connection to other humans and I believe these tools for learning provide the opposite. I think those specific tools should be used for free time and adolescent development on their own and not the teacher’s involvement.
Did I find the MOO liberating from the classroom or more confining… more confining. I was one of the few who were not goofing off and I actually tried to put good ideas and information out there and I felt that no one was even reading my responses. In a classroom setting when I am talking it would be considered rude for others to carry on conversations while I was expressing my ideas and beliefs, but in the MOO there is a completely different set of rules and procedures that develop. I felt disconnected to Mr. Garrison and everyone else in the classroom.
Interaction and communication with other people is extremely important and classroom settings allow students to learn these vital skills over the years they are enrolled in school. If all classes were held online than all the interaction with peers and authority figures (teachers) those skills would not be learned.
I believe that classroom settings teach students so much more than just material presented for students to acknowledge and accept. Classrooms are meant for discussion and peer and teacher relationships develop and intimacy happens in classrooms when exploring and discussing one’s own ideas, thoughts, and ideology. Take away the classroom, teacher, students, and replace it with a monitor that you can only type to… well a lot is lost.
Using TOPIC, MOO’s IM’s or Second Life as a teaching tool and strategy I do not find helpful, especially for student s who already have trouble focusing in a classroom due to a learning disability. People need interaction and connection to other humans and I believe these tools for learning provide the opposite. I think those specific tools should be used for free time and adolescent development on their own and not the teacher’s involvement.
Did I find the MOO liberating from the classroom or more confining… more confining. I was one of the few who were not goofing off and I actually tried to put good ideas and information out there and I felt that no one was even reading my responses. In a classroom setting when I am talking it would be considered rude for others to carry on conversations while I was expressing my ideas and beliefs, but in the MOO there is a completely different set of rules and procedures that develop. I felt disconnected to Mr. Garrison and everyone else in the classroom.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Skeptical About the Internet!
I am exceptionally skeptical about the internet in general but then to think about the internet and its potential for modern technology to revitalize the rhetorical education of composition seems interesting yet unconvincing to me.
More over, I am not a fan of the cell phones, chat rooms and other devices on the internet that are similar. However, I am a fan of the internet with the 2.0 capabilities. For example, like I talked about in class when I was in Europe and we went day by day finding a new place to stay. We used Hostelworld.com where people go on line from all over the world that have stayed at different hostels and they write reviews. This was tremendously helpful for us because for one we didn’t have cell phones to call and find a place. Secondly, we based where we stayed from the internet and mostly by what other travelers old us.
The reason that I am not a fan of cell phones, chat rooms and things of that nature is mostly because I like to be intimate with my friends and family. Cell phones take away all the emotions, excitement, and small details that show up in peoples faces. Example: think about a time when you were extremely excited to give someone a present because you knew it was perfect for them and they would love it. The best part about giving the gift is seeing their reaction. What if everything we did we did over the phone, or chat rooms? We would miss all the details that I love.
Another reason I do not like cell phones and chat rooms is they are completely un-personable. I hate text messages because you are completely disconnected from the person and they don’t have thought and feeling. Text messages are so easy to just write a few words, no thoughts or feelings like a phone call or a hand written letter.
When I was in Europe I did not have a cell phone and I loved it!! Now, honestly I probably would have minded it a lot more if my boyfriend would not have been with me. But for four and a half months I was completely cell phone free!! No one calling me, texting me! I have a cell phone and I use it because for one my parents live Las Vegas Nevada and my boyfriend lives in College Station. Cell phones can be good because you can hear the voice of the people you love who are far away but for the most part, I’m not a fan!
More over, I am not a fan of the cell phones, chat rooms and other devices on the internet that are similar. However, I am a fan of the internet with the 2.0 capabilities. For example, like I talked about in class when I was in Europe and we went day by day finding a new place to stay. We used Hostelworld.com where people go on line from all over the world that have stayed at different hostels and they write reviews. This was tremendously helpful for us because for one we didn’t have cell phones to call and find a place. Secondly, we based where we stayed from the internet and mostly by what other travelers old us.
The reason that I am not a fan of cell phones, chat rooms and things of that nature is mostly because I like to be intimate with my friends and family. Cell phones take away all the emotions, excitement, and small details that show up in peoples faces. Example: think about a time when you were extremely excited to give someone a present because you knew it was perfect for them and they would love it. The best part about giving the gift is seeing their reaction. What if everything we did we did over the phone, or chat rooms? We would miss all the details that I love.
Another reason I do not like cell phones and chat rooms is they are completely un-personable. I hate text messages because you are completely disconnected from the person and they don’t have thought and feeling. Text messages are so easy to just write a few words, no thoughts or feelings like a phone call or a hand written letter.
When I was in Europe I did not have a cell phone and I loved it!! Now, honestly I probably would have minded it a lot more if my boyfriend would not have been with me. But for four and a half months I was completely cell phone free!! No one calling me, texting me! I have a cell phone and I use it because for one my parents live Las Vegas Nevada and my boyfriend lives in College Station. Cell phones can be good because you can hear the voice of the people you love who are far away but for the most part, I’m not a fan!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Just a thought..
I have been thinking about the discussion we had in class dealing with Print and Web and I found it so interesting. Right after we had the class my father sent me an e-mail that I believe has something to do with our class because it is you tube video that talks about how the internet and technology has completely changed our world and before we had all the technology and gadgets we have today, we were different people. I like the part of the class dealing with the two different segments of internet, the 1.0 and the 2.0. People don’t seem to read books anymore, well I do because I love books, probably why I am an English Major. But for the most part, the library seems to be a waste, except for the computers and even then people are always sitting around waiting for a computer to get on. I have found that by the time people get things published in books, there is already a new publisher with “new information” our world is changing so fast that we can barely keep up, and thanks to the internet we can in a sense. All of the sites that the young middle school kids get on to dish out the world their hearts and soul of the new crisis in their life can be good. This allows kids to get comfortable with writing, and writing about their feelings and ideas, and little way of publishing their work. The sites such as wikipedia were people can go and change things I believe is so interesting. Like I said in class where they way I found places to stay the night when I was in Europe was from the internet and a site that is a 2.0 because other travelers who had stayed at these hostels wrote references and reviews such as, “I was so scared I couldn’t even close my eyes” or “rats in the showers” or “best place, great people, internet access and cheap” we relied on what other people wrote and stayed their based on not experts, but yet what other people our age told us. I think this whole 2.0 is so neat and I find it quite interesting.
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