spring!

The sun came out today while I was walking from the parking lot to class, after a week of rain, and it felt HOT! Spring is finally here.
We did some cultural exercises that were pretty interesting in class today. With a sticker of a country (unknown to us) on our foreheads, we had to have conversations with classmates and guess our countries from their remarks. At first it seemed silly and rediculous, but by the end, we all seemed to see the value in the exercise from the perspective of cultural understanding.
The second one involved us writing down desciptions of our own heritage, then classmates read them and tried to guess the country we were describing. Again, a little awkward in the process, but ended up being kind of fun and intersting. Another valuable tool and idea to use for student's cultural awareness. I was thinking that I could possibly use a smaller version of this one, narrow it down to focus on the music from different countries/backgrounds as a way to study world music.

class

In class last night we worked on visual and media literacy. It was interesting to hear the different poems each person came up with to describe the picture we saw. And also to see the pictures we drew from the poems.

Our Culture Quest group is progressing nicely and we commented and helped each other with our pages. We are planning to meet early next week to continue our group work.

spring break

We have missed two classes in a row, but I have tried to get some of my projects worked on. It has been a very restful spring break for me, I was still recovering from my illness.
I managed to spend a day at the Museum of Natural History, I haven't been there in many, many years, not since they put the new wing on. I went with my sister and 8 year old niece and daughter, so it was a fun trip.
I am almost done making my power point for the digital story. I had so much fun going through old photos and scanning them and putting the story together. I also used some pics from the internet and I feel like an expert now working with images.
I can't believe we only have about 6 more classes left!