Weekend News

The weekends are fun when I hang out with my friends.  This weekend I spent time with my family.  I went fishing on Saturday with my cousin and his family.  I did not want to go anywhere but I really needed to get out of the house and away from my computer.  I had so much fun and relaxed so much.  I wanted to go try the new restaurant but did not have anyone to go with.  Sunday, my aunt and uncle made me an early birthday lunch.

My thoughts

What is Passive learning?  I think Active learning is when students are learning with hands-on activities.  The teacher has produced open-ended learning.  A Constructivist approach to teaching would have an active learning environment. This leaves me to assume that the Traditionalist teacher that wants to lecture all the time, would have a Passive learning environment.  The passive learning, would be when the teacher does all of the lecturing and the students would be taking down notes the whole time.  Students don't learn very well this way.

Picture

We were told to look a picture of a beach with waves crashing against the seawall.  The house looks like a castle or venue of some sort. There's someone lying on the beach. I don't know if they are asleep or dead.  If this was my home, it would be one of many.  It would be summer getaway.  I would invite organizations that care for troubled children to come and visit for a weekend.  I would set up so many activities for the kids so that they would have so much fun.  I would also have the children stay over with supervision from adults.

I'm lying here, enjoying the rays of the sun blaring down on me and the crash of the waves soothe my inner thougts.  I can't help to think where I am going to be tomorrow.  I don't know why I am here and who I am.  One day I hope to find out.  The people in the window look like they are having so much fun. I don't remember the last time I laughed.  If I lie here long enough maybe they won't see me and I can enjoying another night of peace.  The seagulls are no bother to me since I have no food to give them, maybe when the glamourous people leave I can search for some around the area.  

My thoughts

I found out that my apartment manager is going to raise the rent when I renew my lease next month. I had to look for a new place to live and that is hard with every thing else going on. I also worked out yesterday for two hours. OMG!!! I never workout for that long. Today, my body is sore but I feel good.  Maybe I will workout today too. We have a midterm due tomorrow and I completely forgot about it.  I'm going to have to work on the midterm this afternoon when I get out of work.  I totally forgot to do so many things for today.  I didn't work on my presentation and I forgot to bring a book so I had to go to the library and check out a book. I hope that I won't forget to do anything that I need to do for tomorrow.

What I would do with a Brick

I would use a brick:
to hold the door open
as a paper weight
to hold up a leg on a broken table.
smush a bug
put it in a bag and workout with it
put it in my car in case I need it.
paint it
use it as decoration in a garten

Writer's Identity

I see myself as a writer that only needs to write when I have to.  I really don't writing for fun. When I think about it, I chat with people all of the time about different matters. You would think that I would love to write.  I'm always posting status reports about my life on Facebook.  I know that's not the same thing. I think I could become a writer. If I am forced to write, I feel that's where the fun goes away.  When I do things on my own that are meaningful to me, I enjoy that better.  Even now I am having a hard time writing. I know what the topic is but I would much rather be writing about other things.  I know that I need to build up a love for writing in order to help my students become awesome writers.  I love learning new ways to improve my teaching skills and I think this class will help become a better a teacher in the future.  I love to write things about my family, myself, my interests.

Project

I was really stressing over this project. I thought to myself "this is a summer class for you."  I really enjoyed reading the information that needed to be presented.  When I started looking at all the pages that needed to be read I started freaking out so much that my brain stopped working on me, I shut down. I had to take a step back and just read it.  Then on Friday, I started freaking out even more because I forgot to get the email and phone number from the other two people in  my group and I really needed to talk to one of them about changing the time of our meeting.  I had to go on to Facebook to look for them. I found one of them and I sent her a message.  Once I was done writing her message, I saw that she was friends with another girl I field based with.  I message her too and asked her for my group members email or phone number.  It was a very interesting day waiting for her to reponse.

ENGL 3360:

I really loved the article about adult literacy.  It made me think about how we need to be literate for any occupation.  The story of Gary was very interesting to me because he was a self employed landscaper.  He needed to make his business grow and he did it by reading a variety of books.  He got many different ideas from these books that benefited his marketing strategies.  The power of the book is so amazing.  As for the second article titled The Neglected "R" wasn't all that interesting to me.  I did find the articles from the children to be very moving.  Some comments made in the article were very true like the section that commented on America's children not writing well.  I agreed with what the article had to say but I just couldn't follow it. 

Introduction

Hello, my name is Elita. This is my second year at TAMUCC. I will be graduating this August. I love Corpus Christi because of the water and sun but not the heat. I am going into the teaching profession because I love working with children.  Some children can be tough but it's worth it in the end to see the joy of learning how to read, write, or work a math problem without hesitation.  I would love to one day get my Masters degree in Educational Technology. I feel technology is great tool for teaching! As we learn how to use new technology children are probably way ahead of us. My nephew learned how to use a touch screen computer. I don't even know how to use one of those. Haha. I would like to be up to date with the latest technology because I feel it will benenfit me, as a teacher. 

ENGLISH 3360: "Why did she have us read the article?"

Our first day of class and already we have homework.  Haha! I sound like an high school student.  I am taking an English Composition course for the first summer session.  Our first assignment was to read an article titled "Shitty First Drafts", taken from the book titled Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.  Our professor also wanted us to blog about what was the reason for having us read the article in the first place.   I thought the article was very amusing and insightful.  I am really reluctant to write anything in fear of being wrong or sound ignorant.  I think the reason why she had us read it was to get us to think about how writing is not hard at all.  Just writing whatever comes to mind is what you should write and then critique and correct along the way till you have a "masterpiece."  We all know writing is a process but usually most students write the first draft without any thought to making it better.  I think this is what happens to me.  I usually procrastinate and end typing something when it's due because I put too much thought into every little thing.  I delete then rewrite over and over again and in the end, I end up with what I started with.  This time I did not do that.  I am typing my first draft at 4:30 p.m. the day before this is due (it's a summer class... there's homework everyday...) and I know I will go back to it later this afternoon and finally post it tomorrow morning which will be the morning of the post. 
It's now the next morning and this is the first time I have looked at this blog again. I still feel the purpose for reading the article was to get us not to be so afraid of writing. Even the "pros" have problems.