midterm video! =)

time consuming midterms

             For my midterm video project, I personally thought that the toughest and most time consuming part was finding how to use everything and how to actually put the things together. I've never made a video of any kind before unless it was like recording a video on my phone or something but that was definitely the hardest part. The interviews are kind of taking me a while because i still haven't gotten a professor yet because i don't know which one to ask, and some of the already interviewed candidates needed to be deleted because of they were either too soft of they just weren't helping the videos cause. Another huge issue for me is the editing part. I don't know why either, it's just so hard and i don't know if its because i'm new to this computer or what but i just can't get the editing down and have already deleted some things i didn't want to delete, put parts where i didn't want them to be, and everything else. Eventually it'll come together! I actually have been doing my project a lot, it hasn't been everyday but the days it has been, it's been for a while, and also I obviously plan on working on it more but the day before is probably when i'm going to do last minute revisions, i know thats not the best idea but thats just the way it always ends up going. 

campus safari-gym #7

          The fitness center is fun and a great place to go to feel good about your day. I don't know about you but whenever i exercise, i just feel great afterwards. Also, the class i took last week was zumba which is really fun, it was on wednesday from 7-8 and afterwards you know it was good because your dripping with sweat! Also, the fitness center is open Monday through Thursday 7am to 10pm, on Friday its open 7am to 8pm, on Saturday its 9:30am to 4:30pm and Sunday 2pm to 7pm. And the charge is $60 on your hoot loot. For exercise machines, there are 8 treadmills, 4 ellipticals, 2 stair steppers, 4 bikes, an abs machine, a tricep machine, benches, free weights, and a free weight room, a power clean rack, leg machines, then way at the end of the gym, theres 2 rooms, one room for bike classes, and the other for other classes such as zumba. 

midterm project

            Okay so my movie is coming along. A few little problems here and there like how to do certain things on the computer but as i go i'll figure them out. Also, some of the people i interviewed are people i know, and some are people i just randomly asked to answer the questions and to be in the video. I did this because I thought it was good to get a variety of people in the video. I also decided to use some upperclassmen and some freshman for the videos because i thought that could have an impact on the answers they gave. Since they've been in school for longer than we have, i figured they'd have good input, which they did! 
            For the questions i asked, they were mostly all the same and very general. Not because i was lazy and didn't want to think of another few questions, because i can easily come up with other questions, but I wanted to see all the different varieties of answers and responses I got to the question what is critical thinking? And what does it mean to you? Some answers were along the same lines but just worded differently and some were more of what they think the definition of critical thinking is and some were in depth with examples. 

critical thinking!

            The book i chose for this assignment is called "New Directions for Teaching and Learning-Fostering Critical Thinking"and the book pretty much states that critical thinking cannot be taught to those who don't open their minds to it. Its one of those things that is supposed be told for you to teach yourself. In my opinion, your either a good critical thinker, or your not. Your not born with critical thinking, therefore you need to learn how to be a critical thinker. By doing this, you need to learn how to think outside the box. If you think outside the box, your more likely to be a critical thinker because your not thinking so literally and your getting the bigger picture. "There are two types of information that should help: increasing evidence from research on teaching and learning, and psychological studies of thinking processes. These lines of inquiry suggest the important variables that affect thinking during instruction."(p. 11) This means that either you work hard at learning what you need to and what your instructed to, or psychologically you just naturally think that way.  


Young, Robert E. Fostering Critical Thinking. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1980. Print.

stress relief!

            Stress and students is a very common match. This week, i have been going to the gym. In my opinion, the gym is a very good stress reliever because you can just get it all out at the gym. It also can help you forget about some stress. I know that a lot of people like to listen to their ipods at the gym and by having their favorite song be playing in their head as they work out can really help you forget the stressful life your having. I think there are a couple of things to do for stress relief. One thing i think will help a lot is obviously the gym, I also think that seeing your friends and just hanging out with them for a while, sleep is also a huge, obvious one. So by seeing your friends for a while, they can help relieving your stress because they'll just make you forget about why your stressed or they'll make you tell them why your so stressed and they'll try to help you. I know that whenever i'm stressed and i have so much to do i always go to my friends or family and they help me do whatever i'm doing. Another stress reliever is sleep. If you get enough sleep, you shouldn't be tired in class and you can focus more and then again wouldn't have to stress later if you don't know the assignment because you paid attention in class. Lastly, I get stressed allot when i'm behind with my work and think i wont be able to finish it in time. Therefore, to prevent this huge problem that i, along with i'm sure many others, i try to do a little everyday up until the day its due just so i'm not crammed with a million hours of work for one night.

stay healthy!

            This blog is going to be easy for me, i'm always sick! Wether its allergies, a sore throat, my eyes hurt, whatever, i've always got some sort of issue, usually its allergies though thank god. But to stay healthy, you really need to have a decent diet. Thats really the key i think. If you don't eat breakfast, how are you going to function throughout the day or your classes, and if your hungry, that will usually make you tired, and if your tired all the time, you usually end up getting sick. Therefore, eating something for breakfast even if its some fruit or something like that, thats better than nothing. Also , you can't go throughout the day eating garbage like sugary things and other unhealthy things, you need to eat protein almost every meal, carbs every meal, and something good to drink. I think eating is a huge thing in staying healthy and not sick while you're at school. But another thing is in your dorm room, try to keep the window open as much as possible. This way fresh air can come in and out of your room instead of the same gross air that all of your roommates share. Sometimes, if you have a sinus problem, i always use something called vicks. It produces strong vapors that help clear your sinuses. But if thats not the problem and you do start to feel sick your best bet would probably be going to see a doctor at the health center. I actually just recently just had to go there for an eye problem. My eye was itchy and puffy and watery and it looked like i got punched. So i went to the health center and they were so nice and it was so easy to make an appointment. 

campus safari-club fair #9

             When i went to the club fair, there were a lot of really good clubs and organizations i thought about joining. The main two that i liked, were best buddies and the future teachers club. Best buddies is such a nice thing and its hard to believe someone wouldn't want to do this. Its a club where you sign up, and you get a buddy which is someone mentally disabled and you pretty much just hang out with them and do things with them like go to the movies, go bowling, etc. It just sounds really fun to me and with having fun, your making someone really happy which is really the point of the organization. The second club that i wanted to join was the future teachers organization. I thought this would be different because its not as much fun but i want to be a teacher so this would be in the right path. In the club, sometimes they take trips to elementary schools and read to them, around halloween time last year they went and dressed up with the kids, so they have fun too. 

the questionnn...

            Now, i'm sure i'm not the only one who thinks this, but sometimes when i'm learning something, i wonder to myself why in the world do i need to know this?! For instance in math, when we learn how to solve equations, i'm sure there are many people that wonder where is this going to be helpful in life? So i want to know how many people change their way of learning when they're learning something they don't understand or they think is pointless. I want to know this because from my own experience, i've noticed that if i don't like a certain subject or i think the subject is dumb and pointless, then i pretty much don't even try. But on the other hand, a class like spanish that i actually somewhat like, or a class like inq which teaches you valuable information for your education and also with your life, then i pay attention and try to get a good grade. In my opinion, I think that people are more likely to pay attention when they're not just learning about how to solve for x or the name of the president from like 900 years ago.