1. Contains the sources you used with links to these sources .25 points
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Museum_of_California
http://www.museumca.org/
2. Contains a brief paragraph how it connects to your study of humanities. 1 point
The Oakland Museum of California relates our studies of humanities in many ways. This museum is about art history, culture and natural sciences, it is the only of California. We are learning about the cultures of California, the history, art, etc. Since this museum is about all these different aspects of California, it is exactly what we are studying.
3. Contains the following "analytical elements":
a. Observation: What did you choose? What do you see or hear or feel or think of in the choice you made? What is the subject of the work? If you chose a 'thing' what is the work made of and what techniques (colors, lines, shapes, textures)does the creator use? Be specific in your description. If you chose a place, be specific in your description of what you see or hear. Talk to your reader as though they cannot see the item but somehow must draw a painting of what you see or hear. 1 point
I choose the Oakland Museum of California. It is located at Oak and 10th Streets in downtown Oakland. It has a café that often has live jazz at lunchtime. It was opened in 1969 and has a three-tiered blend of galleries, terraces, patios, sculpture gardens, and ponds. You can sit and have your lunch overlooking the koi pond. It is an educational place to learn and attracts visitors from all over the world. The museum has pictures of the East Bay Regional Parks. It also contains history of Early California through displays of art and artifacts. It allows you to experience the full culture of early California.
b. Interpretation: What is your choice about? Give specific examples to support this statement in 2 sentences; do so in a way that teaches us something about your choice. Make Paulo Freire proud! .75 point
I choose this museum because when I was researching them on the internet, this one stuck out to me. It seemed really interesting and seemed to very education oriented. They really seemed like they were all about educational opportunities and kids. I thought that was really good and helpful for kids that love it.
c. Judgment: What led you to your choice? What do you think or feel about this choice? Why do you feel this way? Support your thoughts with specific observations. .5 point
I thought this would be a museum I would want to go visit and learn at. It looks like it has really nice grounds and a nice building as well. It seems to be a place where education is really valued and cultures, art and natural history is displayed freely. I really liked that about this museum.
d. Questioning: What else would you like to know about this choice? When completing the question section, lead your audience into the question by stating a fact you do know, yet you still have the related question. This way, both your audience and you will have an educational experience. Example: I learned that John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath was based on his personal experience working with farm workers. I would like to know if the characters he used in that book are fictitious or are they people he met? .5 point
I know this museum has a large display of early California cultures, but what I would like to know is if most of their art and history sections are mostly pictures or if they have exhibits of it as well? Also I would be curious to how much it is all worth.
5. Using your classmates work from last week, tell us one thing you learned from 1 student. Is this one thing some common experience you share or some experience that is completely different than what you experienced? Is this one thing related to our class theoretical foundation and if so, how? Is that one thing related to historical or cultural context of this country or a different one? Link that persons blog to this entry (eg cut paste that blog entry here) . .5 point
I looked at Jeana Wiemeyer blog on the Sacramento Valley. She said that the city of Coloma has a lot of inhabitants that raft in the American River that runs through it and that in the summer it pretty much is about that type of culture. But the most interesting thing I learned from her, is that Coloma was the first city that gold was found in by James W. Marshall, and that it was created into a state historic park. I was not aware of this, so I thought that was pretty interesting.
http://jeana-human7.blogspot.com/2008/09/2a-sacramento-valleycoloma.html
Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
2a-San Francisco
2. Contains the sources you used with links to these sources .25 points
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_San_Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_San_Francisco,_California
3. Contains a brief paragraph how it connects to your study of humanities. 1 point
San Francisco relates to humanities in many different aspects. Humanities is about studying a culture in all aspects such as music, art, dance, and human expression. San Francisco is one of the only cities I have been to where all of those things are apparent. Music blasts through streets and stores and art is expressed through out the city. Art is displayed on buildings, benches, buses, etc. People from all walks of life make up San Francisco; they have so many different kinds of people there, artists, musicians, bums, business men, tourists from all over the world, etc. San Francisco is the fourth most populated city in California and the 14th most populated in the United States with a population of roughly 769, 976 people.
4. Contains the following "analytical elements":
Observation: What did you choose? What do you see or hear or feel or think of in the choice you made? What is the subject of the work? If you chose a 'thing' what is the work made of and what techniques (colors, lines, shapes, textures)does the creator use? Be specific in your description. If you chose a place, be specific in your description of what you see or hear. Talk to your reader as though they cannot see the item but somehow must draw a painting of what you see or hear. 1 point
A. Walking over the Golden Gate Bridge looking at the Ocean below me I can see all the buildings and lights in the distance. At night the City is light up and gorgeous, with people, tall buildings and homes all around. Walking down the street you see people from all walks of life, shops privately owned and big corporations, universities, cars honking in traffic, trolley’s climbing the hills in the street and a fairy in the distance. When you look up you can see the stars through the tall buildings that surround you and if you’re standing in the right spot, you can see the water with the Golden Gate Bridge all light up.
B. Interpretation: What is your choice about? Give specific examples to support this statement in 2 sentences; do so in a way that teaches us something about your choice. Make Paulo Freire proud! .75 point
San Francisco is a place where you can express yourself freely; you can be who you truly are because there are so many different types of people there. It is a city with so much history and culture which makes it not only an exciting place to be but comforting at the same time. I am from Santa Rosa, so it is not as big as a city as San Francisco, but when I was younger I would get so excited to go to San Francisco because it was a place I could do anything in. I could be whoever I wanted to be and it wouldn’t matter because I would fit in. I could walk up and down the streets, ride the trolley, shop, eat, etc.
C. Judgment: What led you to your choice? What do you think or feel about this choice? Why do you feel this way? Support your thoughts with specific observations. .5 point
The excitement and natural beauty of San Francisco is what lead me to pick this city in California. As I have stated previously it is a place to be who you are and a place where you can freely express yourself with out stereotypes. It just made up of so many cultures that have combined into one in a way. I love all the diversity that San Francisco has to offer.
D. Questioning: What else would you like to know about this choice? When completing the question section, lead your audience into the question by stating a fact you do know, yet you still have the related question. This way, both your audience and you will have an educational experience. Example: I learned that John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath was based on his personal experience working with farm workers. I would like to know if the characters he used in that book are fictitious or are they people he met? .5 point
I have learned a lot more about the history of San Francisco, the gold rush, military, trading, settlements, etc. I would like to know if it was all the history that San Francisco has that made it as popular in the world as it is today.
5. Using your classmates work from last week, tell us one thing you learned from 1 student. Is this one thing some common experience you share or some experience that is completely different than what you experienced? Is this one thing related to our class theoretical foundation and if so, how? Is that one thing related to historical or cultural context of this country or a different one? Link that persons blog to this entry (eg cut paste that blog entry here) . .5 point
I learned from Jeana that 750,000 copies of the Freire’s books have been sold and that it was dedicated to the oppressed and those who fight by their side. That was something I didn’t learn while researching him. I thought that was pretty impressive, that’s a lot of books and the theory that he wrote about is widely used in the world today as a teaching strategy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_San_Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_San_Francisco,_California
3. Contains a brief paragraph how it connects to your study of humanities. 1 point
San Francisco relates to humanities in many different aspects. Humanities is about studying a culture in all aspects such as music, art, dance, and human expression. San Francisco is one of the only cities I have been to where all of those things are apparent. Music blasts through streets and stores and art is expressed through out the city. Art is displayed on buildings, benches, buses, etc. People from all walks of life make up San Francisco; they have so many different kinds of people there, artists, musicians, bums, business men, tourists from all over the world, etc. San Francisco is the fourth most populated city in California and the 14th most populated in the United States with a population of roughly 769, 976 people.
4. Contains the following "analytical elements":
Observation: What did you choose? What do you see or hear or feel or think of in the choice you made? What is the subject of the work? If you chose a 'thing' what is the work made of and what techniques (colors, lines, shapes, textures)does the creator use? Be specific in your description. If you chose a place, be specific in your description of what you see or hear. Talk to your reader as though they cannot see the item but somehow must draw a painting of what you see or hear. 1 point
A. Walking over the Golden Gate Bridge looking at the Ocean below me I can see all the buildings and lights in the distance. At night the City is light up and gorgeous, with people, tall buildings and homes all around. Walking down the street you see people from all walks of life, shops privately owned and big corporations, universities, cars honking in traffic, trolley’s climbing the hills in the street and a fairy in the distance. When you look up you can see the stars through the tall buildings that surround you and if you’re standing in the right spot, you can see the water with the Golden Gate Bridge all light up.
B. Interpretation: What is your choice about? Give specific examples to support this statement in 2 sentences; do so in a way that teaches us something about your choice. Make Paulo Freire proud! .75 point
San Francisco is a place where you can express yourself freely; you can be who you truly are because there are so many different types of people there. It is a city with so much history and culture which makes it not only an exciting place to be but comforting at the same time. I am from Santa Rosa, so it is not as big as a city as San Francisco, but when I was younger I would get so excited to go to San Francisco because it was a place I could do anything in. I could be whoever I wanted to be and it wouldn’t matter because I would fit in. I could walk up and down the streets, ride the trolley, shop, eat, etc.
C. Judgment: What led you to your choice? What do you think or feel about this choice? Why do you feel this way? Support your thoughts with specific observations. .5 point
The excitement and natural beauty of San Francisco is what lead me to pick this city in California. As I have stated previously it is a place to be who you are and a place where you can freely express yourself with out stereotypes. It just made up of so many cultures that have combined into one in a way. I love all the diversity that San Francisco has to offer.
D. Questioning: What else would you like to know about this choice? When completing the question section, lead your audience into the question by stating a fact you do know, yet you still have the related question. This way, both your audience and you will have an educational experience. Example: I learned that John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath was based on his personal experience working with farm workers. I would like to know if the characters he used in that book are fictitious or are they people he met? .5 point
I have learned a lot more about the history of San Francisco, the gold rush, military, trading, settlements, etc. I would like to know if it was all the history that San Francisco has that made it as popular in the world as it is today.
5. Using your classmates work from last week, tell us one thing you learned from 1 student. Is this one thing some common experience you share or some experience that is completely different than what you experienced? Is this one thing related to our class theoretical foundation and if so, how? Is that one thing related to historical or cultural context of this country or a different one? Link that persons blog to this entry (eg cut paste that blog entry here) . .5 point
I learned from Jeana that 750,000 copies of the Freire’s books have been sold and that it was dedicated to the oppressed and those who fight by their side. That was something I didn’t learn while researching him. I thought that was pretty impressive, that’s a lot of books and the theory that he wrote about is widely used in the world today as a teaching strategy.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Assignment 1c
Rebekah
1. Rebekah loves California for its diversity and beautiful country-side. She has family in the east that would never come out here because they are afraid there might be an earthquake. She also had created a blog before for her Interdisciplinary Studies 4 class she took over the summer.
2. A. From Rebekah I learned that Freire’s first job was a lawyer, before coming a teacher and teaching Portuguese in schools from 1941-1947.
B. The second thing I learned was that on March 31, 1964, there was a coup d'etat in Brazil and the military ruled for twenty years. I read something like that, but I don’t think I read about it lasting for twenty years.
3. It relates to our study because we are learning about culture and the nature of humans. Freire’s ideas were all about education and as a culture that is what we are getting.
Samantha
1. Samantha has taken other humanities classes and finds then fun, enjoyable and educational. She has created web pages, but never a blog and believes that when she thinks of California it is how most people do, just not as glorified.
2. A. From Samantha I learned was what the “banking” system Freire used really meant, which was that he viewed students as empty and ready for a teacher to fill with knowledge.
B. I also learned that he wanted all student teacher relations to be gone, that students and teachers should be equal and that they should learn equally from each other.
3. This relates to our study of humanities because the system that he created and put in place is what many teachers in different cultures use today.
1. Rebekah loves California for its diversity and beautiful country-side. She has family in the east that would never come out here because they are afraid there might be an earthquake. She also had created a blog before for her Interdisciplinary Studies 4 class she took over the summer.
2. A. From Rebekah I learned that Freire’s first job was a lawyer, before coming a teacher and teaching Portuguese in schools from 1941-1947.
B. The second thing I learned was that on March 31, 1964, there was a coup d'etat in Brazil and the military ruled for twenty years. I read something like that, but I don’t think I read about it lasting for twenty years.
3. It relates to our study because we are learning about culture and the nature of humans. Freire’s ideas were all about education and as a culture that is what we are getting.
Samantha
1. Samantha has taken other humanities classes and finds then fun, enjoyable and educational. She has created web pages, but never a blog and believes that when she thinks of California it is how most people do, just not as glorified.
2. A. From Samantha I learned was what the “banking” system Freire used really meant, which was that he viewed students as empty and ready for a teacher to fill with knowledge.
B. I also learned that he wanted all student teacher relations to be gone, that students and teachers should be equal and that they should learn equally from each other.
3. This relates to our study of humanities because the system that he created and put in place is what many teachers in different cultures use today.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Assignment 1b
http://www.nl.edu/academics/cas/ace/resources/paulofreire.cfm
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
The first thing that I think is very important that Paulo Freire did was to become a teacher and spend his time to help others with their lives. Even though he had different degrees and jobs he dedicated his life to being an educator for adults. He spent his life helping people to better their lives and get people help out of poverty. If he hadn’t done what he had done, many people wouldn’t have the life they ended up with.
The second thing that I think that Freire did that was very important was all his theoretical innovations he made with educations. His five focuses were on dialogue, praxis, conscientization, experience, and metaphors. His teaching was largely based on informal education but yet it still involved some structured education. Freire still incorporated curriculum, but it taught people in different settings that were more appropriate for some His ideas involved more social aspects, making people participate together with reading and writing. He taught people to read and write with his theories with in 30 hours. He wanted to move away from the way of education that was in effect he called it “banking”. I think that without his theories for education, many people would not succeed in school; people need different ideas then the tradition to learn. With his ideas on education people in the world would leave lead different lives then they do today.
The third thing in my opinion that Freire did that was important was to travel the world were he was offered jobs after being exiled from Brazil. He traveled to Chile, the United States, Switzerland, etc. He took things that he observed and learned and incorporated it into his second book called Pedagogy of the Oppressed, his more famous of the two. By incorporating what he learned about all countries being in the United States he was able to improve his work that he did on education and share with people his ideas. As I said above by sharing his ideas, he was able to get his educational concepts around the world even more then he had by traveling and teaching.
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
The first thing that I think is very important that Paulo Freire did was to become a teacher and spend his time to help others with their lives. Even though he had different degrees and jobs he dedicated his life to being an educator for adults. He spent his life helping people to better their lives and get people help out of poverty. If he hadn’t done what he had done, many people wouldn’t have the life they ended up with.
The second thing that I think that Freire did that was very important was all his theoretical innovations he made with educations. His five focuses were on dialogue, praxis, conscientization, experience, and metaphors. His teaching was largely based on informal education but yet it still involved some structured education. Freire still incorporated curriculum, but it taught people in different settings that were more appropriate for some His ideas involved more social aspects, making people participate together with reading and writing. He taught people to read and write with his theories with in 30 hours. He wanted to move away from the way of education that was in effect he called it “banking”. I think that without his theories for education, many people would not succeed in school; people need different ideas then the tradition to learn. With his ideas on education people in the world would leave lead different lives then they do today.
The third thing in my opinion that Freire did that was important was to travel the world were he was offered jobs after being exiled from Brazil. He traveled to Chile, the United States, Switzerland, etc. He took things that he observed and learned and incorporated it into his second book called Pedagogy of the Oppressed, his more famous of the two. By incorporating what he learned about all countries being in the United States he was able to improve his work that he did on education and share with people his ideas. As I said above by sharing his ideas, he was able to get his educational concepts around the world even more then he had by traveling and teaching.
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