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Assignments: the Technology Self-Assessment was due Sunday, Diigo is due Wed, and the Journals 1-5 are due Friday. . .Do not forget that journal 5 is extra credit. If you decide to complete it, it MUST be submitted on time or you will not receive credit. If you need help with anything, come to class early for the Monday section; make arrangements to meet me in another lab for the Thursday section (there are open labs in the same ACD hallway).
This Week: We will go over the TaskStream collaborative narratives and ensure you are comfortable using GoogleDocs. Then, we will discuss the presentation assignment! I expect that all my PowerPoint users will be excited to learn some new web 2.0 tools. If time permits, I will also show you how to embed your newsletters in your blog!!
Journal 6-10: You have a week off from journals. . .I will give you journal 6 next week. . .Yeah!
This Week's Question: What is something you have learned well without formal teaching? How did you learn it? This could be a sport, hobby, musical instrument, etc. .
How to cook!! I just watched my parents and followed a few recipes :o)
ReplyDeleteSomething that I have learned well without formal teaching is adapting to technology. I have never had any issue figuring out how to work the latest smartphone or computer. I alway had at least one computer in my house when I was growing up as my dad owned his own company when I was younger. It was something I grew up with.
ReplyDeleteI learned from a very young age to act as the interpreter/translator for my mom. When I was growing up, my mother’s English was very limited and often I found myself translating paperwork that the school had sent home and interpreting for my mom on open house night at school. This is something that I got very good at and continue to do when needed.
ReplyDeleteSomething that I have learned well without formal teaching is direction. I have a really good sense of direction. As long as I can get my bearings in a new place and examine that place on a map (preferably a map of the country) I can figure out how to get just about anywhere. Oddly enough I suck at following written directions. I am a very visual learner, so as long as I can get some type of overview from a map I am fine.
ReplyDeleteI learned to sew without formal teaching. My mother left her sewing machine and tools out one day and I took the opportunity to experiment. After asking a few pointed questions, I had no real problems sewing from then on.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to play soccer without formal teaching. When I was around 10 years old I told my parents that I wanted to play so my Dad made a team and entered us into the recreation league. I learned to play as my Dad learned to coach. I learned all I know today through just playing.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to play Golf. Sounds like a boring sport, but when you get the hang of it, it turns out to be quite interesting. Though, I must say, my hitting skills are not quite so accurate, so I happen to hit the grass instead of the gold ball. But I'm working on it. :) Who would of thought that one could learn a sport without teaching?? I didn't for sure. Nice to know now!!
ReplyDeleteI learned how to cook. After 5th grade my parents decided it was best my mom enter back into the working world leaving our dinner options obsolete. I spent the greater part of my middle/high school years in the kitchen after school. I love it!
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I learned how to cook without any formal training. I learned it by just doing it. A few years ago everyone in my family was assigned a night to cook dinner and I learned really quick, through hit and miss, how to cook decent meals.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I have learned withoutformal learning is creative writing. I do it on my own and have practiced doing my own creative writing on my own. It is a great hobby of mine.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to bake. My mom likes to cook and I like to bake (partially because I love sweets). It works hand in hand. :)
ReplyDeleteField Hockey. Learned by watching others play and then by practicing. Practice makes perfect, kinda =) Everyone has different ways of learning and doing, therefore, when it comes to learning something physical, like Field hockey, I found it easiest to learn just by watching and then trying it for myself.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to agree with others, and say that one thing I have learned to do well with out any formal training is baking! While I'm not always the best cook, I have always enjoyed baking, and making delicious treats!
ReplyDeleteI learned how to play hockey in high school. I had never played before freshman year and had only gone skating a number of times. My best friend convinced me to go to one of his practices and later that week i bought gear and was hooked. Excelled and was a starter by senior year :)
ReplyDeleteSomething I learned without formal training was baking! The best part about baking is that you can add a little spice anywhere and make your own recipe without any instruction and have a new creation:)
ReplyDeleteI learned how to golf without any formal teaching. For me a lot of the time the best way to learn is by doing, so I went to the driving range until I could hit the ball, then started going to actual courses. I'm not a great golfer, but I can finish a round without hitting a house finally.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to bartend without formal training. I'm still in the process, but it's like I'm teaching myself!!
ReplyDeleteSomething I learned without formal training is running Hurdles. I tried it out freshman year of high school and ended up beating my high school record in the 300m records.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with Erika. Something I learned without formal teaching is direction. I love to drive because it puts me in control and I trust myself. It was a matter of common sense, the beach is west, La is north, etc. While driving I would take a different route home so I can learn a new route. Direction was a matter of purposely or accidentally getting lost to find my way.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to cook at an early age from watching my mother and father. They always make their meals together, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I'd have to say my mother is much better at baking things though!
ReplyDeleteI learned how to cook! I was terrible at first and now I must say I'm quite the little chef ;)
ReplyDeleteBack to the basics: I learned how to work a macbook without any formal training. Definitely learned on my own volition, my parents were PC users.
ReplyDeleteSoccer is a definite, or how to play the guitar. both are extremely informal and require the learner to use his or her own personal style of learning.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I learned to do without any formal training is using Excel spreadsheets. Most of the things I have learned about using technology is from trial and error.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to cook on my own. I started by following different recipes then ventured out on my own once I felt comfortable.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I learned to do without formal training is learning how to type. I taught myself by watching others where to place my fingers on a keyboard.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to do run without formal training. It sounds weird but there is a proper way to run long distances and I learned how to do it on my own!!
ReplyDeleteI learned how to be a good mom. I babysat for this lady that became my mother figure and the Good Lord Jesus gave me a good moral sense.
ReplyDeletei learned how to play guitar, electric guitar, drums, and other intruments by youtube, and friends helping me
ReplyDeleteI learned how to cook. As a child, I would watch my sister cook all the time!
ReplyDeleteWithout formal training I learned how to groom my giant schnauzer for dog shows
ReplyDeleteSomething I learned without formal training is surfing. I started surfing with my Dad when I was ten and I fell in love with it. It's also what we do to spend time with each other.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to cook on my own. Since I was born in Egypt and lived there all my life, I got used to Egyptian food. And when I first came to the U.S. I took advantage of ready made meals and didn't cook at all, but as time went by I really missed the Egyptian food so I had to learn how to cook it. I got the recipes from my mom over the phone and started cooking. And it turned out Greaaaaaaattt..YUM!
ReplyDeleteI learned how to farm/garden on my own. I learned how to farm/garden when I began volunteering on a farm in Santa Cruz for a social documentation class. When I was on the farm the director made me work for an hour or two. I just kind-of had to pick it up. I really got the hang of it when I moved to Kaua'i and lived on an organic permaculture farm. I wasn't taught anything, I was just expected to do it... so I did.
ReplyDeleteI've learned how to read people pretty well. From the time I was a young girl, I was very interested in all types of people. I've always loved to observe and analyze the actions of others. As a result, I have a keen sense of what lies beneath a person's exterior shortly after I meet him/her.
ReplyDeleteI have learned to listen and give good advice. I always seem to be an outlet to other's and I have learned I really just understand and take every experience and various aspects of life to teach myself how to give better advice. But it doesn't take a teacher to know how to listen to anyone. I feel like a therapist or psychologist at times without even trying haha.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to cook and bake without formal teaching. Since I was young I had always had fun in the kitchen. I'd just watch either my dad, mom or grandma cook and I was not allowed to touch, but only observe. Overtime, I was able to cook with them and overtime, on my own. Now, I cook at home when I have the time. Also, I have been teaching my husband to cook in the kitchen as he has been teaching me how to grill :D
ReplyDeleteI leraned how to play ping pong really well without any formal lessons. I'm pretty awesome, i got the mean serve, the english, and the backspin down. I also learned how to play pool really well without a formal teacher. My mom bought a table from an old bar when i was about 10 and i grew up teaching myself how to run the table.
ReplyDeleteI think all of us have learnt a lot of things without formal teaching. I can say that, for instance, I learned how to look after little kids because I have two nieces and two nephews and I spend with them a lot of time.
ReplyDeleteI learned to use the computer without formal education.
ReplyDeleteI learned to ride horses without formal teaching. I used to race and just learned things as I went. My mom taught me some things but i never really had any lessons. :)
ReplyDeleteI learned how to play guitar without formal teaching. One day when I was in seventh grade I told my dad I wanted to play guitar and we went to a pawn shop in Fullerton and got an acoustic guitar which I still have to this day. I never had lessons or anything, I just taught myself the chords online using videos and guitar tabs.
ReplyDeleteI am a very proficient juggler. When I was young I decided I needed to know how, and by the end of that day I could.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to cook without formal education. I make up recipes or do my own research and create delicious things.
ReplyDeleteI have learned how to read people pretty well without formal teaching. For example I can predict what my friends are going to do next or what they will say or I can look at them and know what they are thinking or feeling. Of course I am not always right but it is a pretty cool thing that really good friends know how to do and that skill can be adapted to others.
ReplyDeleteI learned to use technology without formal education. I used to just look at instructions or just messing up with it.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to play tennis without formal teaching! One day I just got the racket and decided to play, I liked tennis a lot so I decided to join my schools tennis team! I played two years and learned a great deal of skills. :)
ReplyDeleteI learned to play ping pong without any teaching by playing almost everyday in middle school since it was the only game I could play... I couldn't play handball and 4 square anymore after elementary school... now who wants to challenge me?
ReplyDeleteI think I, like many people, have learned a tremendous amount outside of the classroom. No matter if it is through experimentation or natural talent we have things we figure out without people showing us. In thinking of what I have learned I would say computer techniques. My father has always worked with computers and as a kid I just figured out how to build, operate them and love them.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to play basketball without any type of formal teaching. It is a very sport to pick up on without having to use all kinds of different equipment.
ReplyDeleteI'm really good at doing sit-ups. I've never had any formal training on how to do a proper sit-up. One time I went to the gym and I saw someone doing sit-ups, then I started doing them too.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to ice and roller skate. I don't do it too often anymore, but I'm still pretty good at it... I used to think I was so cool with my roller skates, now it just makes me feel old...
ReplyDeleteWithout formal teaching I have learned how to cook and have patience. Both skills were acquired from motherhood. I had to cook to take care of my family and things rarely go the way expected as a parent so patience is a must.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to draw well without any formal teaching. My mother in high school took an art class and one day we went looking through her stuff and found her art pieces. It inspired me to draw, from that point on, I would look at something and do my best to recreate it through different mediums of art.
ReplyDeleteI learned how to fish without formal education, just by watching a friend's dad do it and just doing; caught a huge trigger fish within a few minutes of my very first cast
ReplyDeleteI learned to surf without formal training, but sometimes I wish I had it- at least with duckdiving!
ReplyDeleteI learned how to make floral arrangements without having to take a flora class. I picked it up by looking at my mom make her floral arrangements and had her give me pointers. I also learned how to play the acoustic guitar without having formal classes. I had a friend guide me through the tabs and i've been playing for the past 3 years.
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ReplyDeleteI learned html and java programming without actually taking a class or having a person teach it to me. I was motivated to learn it because I just graduated high school (early) and I was going to Miramar college and was talking to this boy who told me about Myspace. At the time (around 2004/2005), if you wanted anything other than the boring white and orange profile, you had to write your own code to make it different fonts, font sizes, backgrounds, graphics, etc. There weren't code generators at the time either, so all I did was go into Google and start searching how to write code in Myspace and expanding my searches as I learned more. Amazingly, there are a lot of websites out there (even then) that tell you how to write code to make Myspace cool and give you many ideas that you may have not even thought of. I don't use Myspace anymore, but I still have the account. I feel like deleting it deletes all the time and effort I put into that project, and boy did I spent countless hours and late nights trying to make it original and the best I can make it. I am very proud of myself of what I made and learned, and it all started with a boy ;-).
ReplyDeleteOne thing I learned well without formal teaching like many is baking. As a child I would bake a lot with my mother and as I got older I really had a passion for it and am frequently searching for new recipes to try!
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