Thursday, February 23, 2012
Activities Group 2-Blogs
As much as I enjoyed creating a WiKi, I was totally blown away with making a Blog. This may not seem like much to those younger than me, but to me it seems easier and perhaps more benificial. Lauren and the rest of the ladies did some amazing things on their Blogs, adding pictures of food and places to visit. I tend to be a little bit more private, with that in mind I will tell you what I am most passionate about. This is my best friend in the world-George. My wife cannot understand why I have spent so much money on him. $1200 for an operation, $800 to remove a lump from his back. On his 10th birthday, I made him a steak-medium rare. Whenever I come home to El Paso from NMSU, George is waiting for me. He will leap into the air to lick my face. I am also passionate about two other things: Fishing (Bass) and playing my saxophone. I will have my students create a blog in order to incorporate partnering with technology.
Activities Group 1-WiKi
http://historymythsandhiddentruths.wikispaces.com/space/content Using 
a Wiki has made it possible for me to create simple lesson plans that will allow my students to research and explore facts from fiction. What I enjoyed the most about using a WiKi is one can distinguish what is true, what is false. To clarify lets look at the image to the right. There is strong emotion in this picture. My field is social studies,government and I have a minor in history. Young people seem to be fascinated by the 1960's Music such as The Beatles, Doors, Turtles, Rascals and so forth. They are also fascinated by the dress of the times. The love beads, mini-skirts, the hippies. What they fail to comprehend is it was a time of civil unrest. One needs to only read the book Nixonland to get a glimpse of how terrible the 60's were. The important contributions of Dr. King, Mr. Chavez, Bobby Kennedy (who I remember vividly when he was killed) but more important the Vietnam experience. I lost many family members to this conflict including kids that grew up in my neighborhood. Louie Borrego had just arrived in Vietnam, he had been sent to a "hot zone". As he walked towards the rest of the soldiers, he stepped on a hidden mine. These were called bouncing betties because they would explode and leap upwards about three feet and explode again cutting in half any one in its path. I was fortunate to have avoided what these brave men went through because I was too young but old enough to remember the conclussion of the war with the fall of Saigon. Terrible movies like "Rambo" portray the war in a false sense. If my students wanted to research this conflict, they could create images and search out facts. They would then apply them to the WiKi and be able to share information with each other. They could edit, save, delete, the possibilities are endless. The above image moves me to tears because of what it represents to me. If teaching a history class, I might insert such an image and have my students reflect and form an educated guess as to its meaning.
a Wiki has made it possible for me to create simple lesson plans that will allow my students to research and explore facts from fiction. What I enjoyed the most about using a WiKi is one can distinguish what is true, what is false. To clarify lets look at the image to the right. There is strong emotion in this picture. My field is social studies,government and I have a minor in history. Young people seem to be fascinated by the 1960's Music such as The Beatles, Doors, Turtles, Rascals and so forth. They are also fascinated by the dress of the times. The love beads, mini-skirts, the hippies. What they fail to comprehend is it was a time of civil unrest. One needs to only read the book Nixonland to get a glimpse of how terrible the 60's were. The important contributions of Dr. King, Mr. Chavez, Bobby Kennedy (who I remember vividly when he was killed) but more important the Vietnam experience. I lost many family members to this conflict including kids that grew up in my neighborhood. Louie Borrego had just arrived in Vietnam, he had been sent to a "hot zone". As he walked towards the rest of the soldiers, he stepped on a hidden mine. These were called bouncing betties because they would explode and leap upwards about three feet and explode again cutting in half any one in its path. I was fortunate to have avoided what these brave men went through because I was too young but old enough to remember the conclussion of the war with the fall of Saigon. Terrible movies like "Rambo" portray the war in a false sense. If my students wanted to research this conflict, they could create images and search out facts. They would then apply them to the WiKi and be able to share information with each other. They could edit, save, delete, the possibilities are endless. The above image moves me to tears because of what it represents to me. If teaching a history class, I might insert such an image and have my students reflect and form an educated guess as to its meaning.
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