To Ann
I know very well what you mean by approval ratings. As a geek since time immemorial (I'm almost a nerd, but I talk to too many people), I have always struggled with those that just think of the "simpler" things in life. I love your flock of words by the way. I usually raise my hand in work meetings (me being the only one that does so), so permissions, and my inability to follow the norms of a group are a constant reminder of being positive about myself and not let others views of me cloud my personal truth about myself (...too many mes in that sentence).
I think that as long as we discover ourselves, and understand our own "game", we don't really have to revisit our ways, as they will always be correct. I do understand about a "migratory" way of dealing with situations, but it seems to me that you mean by that word that you return eventually to old ways of thinking, as migratory refers to going somewhere to then coming back. I have never gone back in any of my ways of being, I always modify myself and go with it, winging it if I have to. To go back for me is to be defeated, to have my time wasted by those experiences I had after the change. Let's put it this way, if you went 15 years to your past and talked to yourself (and this you couldn't recognize you), what would you talk about? Would you like to talk to your younger self even? That's a key to self-analysis and about being a gift to everyone you meet...
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Wk2 Reading: Blog Post to Jeri Kennedy
To Jeri
I don't know you, but you seem hard on yourself. Our mistakes are only our own to know, and we must have the confidence to not let that knowledge cloud who we really are, with only the positive of ourselves out to others. Of course it may seem arrogant at first, but it is about being true to yourself about your qualities. Of course nobody is perfect, but to talk about our imperfections to others does not help them at all. Only talking about lessons learned, and how negatives became positives are what people want to hear. The perspective shift is as easy as thinking that your skills and abilities compensate for your flaws so much, that your flaws become non-existent to those around you (other than your significant other perhaps). We are what we think we are, so no negatives, no Bs or Cs (or worse), only the best of yourself all the time should be on your mind, and the shift will happen by itself...
I don't know you, but you seem hard on yourself. Our mistakes are only our own to know, and we must have the confidence to not let that knowledge cloud who we really are, with only the positive of ourselves out to others. Of course it may seem arrogant at first, but it is about being true to yourself about your qualities. Of course nobody is perfect, but to talk about our imperfections to others does not help them at all. Only talking about lessons learned, and how negatives became positives are what people want to hear. The perspective shift is as easy as thinking that your skills and abilities compensate for your flaws so much, that your flaws become non-existent to those around you (other than your significant other perhaps). We are what we think we are, so no negatives, no Bs or Cs (or worse), only the best of yourself all the time should be on your mind, and the shift will happen by itself...
Wk2 Discussion Deeper: Podcasts in Education
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I’m sure some of my colleagues have already posted some of these podcasts but these are some of the ones I listen to on a regular basis (I don’t have a classroom and don’t make decisions in pedagogical issues in my workplace, so I’m posting what I listen to, to be up to date).
Ted.com videos as they release them
Great speeches from the greatest speakers in the planet
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TEDTalks_video
NPR’s News Hourly Summary
Hourly update of what’s going on without the opinions
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=500005
Nova Science short videos
New discoveries in science usually come here first
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/rss/nova-vodcast-it.xml
GeekBeat TV
For the latest in tech gadgets, and tech mergers
http://feeds.feedburner.com/calimedium
Dan Carlins Hardcore History
A new perspective in old history
http://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/history?format=xml
Digital Production Buzz weekly podcast
For the latest news in new video and audio equipment, and software
http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/Archives/podcast.xml
Media Shift’s 5across videos
Public media awareness at it’s best
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/video_podcast.xml
This Week in Tech
An hour long podcast about the latest in the tech world, including gossip
http://feeds.twit.tv/twit_video_small
LabCast media
MIT’s educational media videos with media issue updates
http://feeds.media.mit.edu/labcast
I’m sure some of my colleagues have already posted some of these podcasts but these are some of the ones I listen to on a regular basis (I don’t have a classroom and don’t make decisions in pedagogical issues in my workplace, so I’m posting what I listen to, to be up to date).
Ted.com videos as they release them
Great speeches from the greatest speakers in the planet
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TEDTalks_video
NPR’s News Hourly Summary
Hourly update of what’s going on without the opinions
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=500005
Nova Science short videos
New discoveries in science usually come here first
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/rss/nova-vodcast-it.xml
GeekBeat TV
For the latest in tech gadgets, and tech mergers
http://feeds.feedburner.com/calimedium
Dan Carlins Hardcore History
A new perspective in old history
http://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/history?format=xml
Digital Production Buzz weekly podcast
For the latest news in new video and audio equipment, and software
http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/Archives/podcast.xml
Media Shift’s 5across videos
Public media awareness at it’s best
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/video_podcast.xml
This Week in Tech
An hour long podcast about the latest in the tech world, including gossip
http://feeds.twit.tv/twit_video_small
LabCast media
MIT’s educational media videos with media issue updates
http://feeds.media.mit.edu/labcast
Wk2-2 DB Quickies: CD Ownership, Music Sharing or Spontaneous Listening
Copy from discussion post
Wow this is a tough one. After much thinking, the first song that ever touched me in a deep way was a midi song from a NES game called Ultima III. I can still remember that tune immediately just thinking about the game. I played that game for over 2 years and gave me the skill for a lot of roleplaying games after this. If it wasn’t for this game and it’s music, I would have probably never gotten into computers the way I did, I probably would have never joined the military (too long to explain but it really makes sense), and with a lot of certainty, I would have never been a geek.
I remember very well when CDs started to become popular, and the slow transition that it took for people to change from cassettes. I remember that CDs gave music a sort of “class” that wasn’t present when you dealt with cassettes, unless you had a “metal” cassette. It probably was because of how easy it was for CDs to be copied, and how quickly they lost their quality. I didn’t really own any CDs until after high school. I bought a lot of repeats while in the military (check my 2-1 post), my CDs were always getting stolen. I was a very early adopter of the digital compression (I even bought Sony MD recorders when they first came out) and the ways to deal with WAVs, and the advent of mp3. I don’t care much about CDs or music for that matter, and don’t keep music anywhere in the house or computers. I never paid attention to the prices when I would buy CDs in the past, but I would never spend a dime today for a CD.
CDs cut some of the highs and lows of music, so even with all the hype of digital music, LPs still have the best quality (if they’re not scratched that is). If I would ever go back into listening to music, I would probably buy LPs and a vacuum LP player (look these up)…
PS: In my post I said about copying CDs, I meant cassettes, CD copying didn’t come until a few years after (in the context of time I was talking about).
Wow this is a tough one. After much thinking, the first song that ever touched me in a deep way was a midi song from a NES game called Ultima III. I can still remember that tune immediately just thinking about the game. I played that game for over 2 years and gave me the skill for a lot of roleplaying games after this. If it wasn’t for this game and it’s music, I would have probably never gotten into computers the way I did, I probably would have never joined the military (too long to explain but it really makes sense), and with a lot of certainty, I would have never been a geek.
I remember very well when CDs started to become popular, and the slow transition that it took for people to change from cassettes. I remember that CDs gave music a sort of “class” that wasn’t present when you dealt with cassettes, unless you had a “metal” cassette. It probably was because of how easy it was for CDs to be copied, and how quickly they lost their quality. I didn’t really own any CDs until after high school. I bought a lot of repeats while in the military (check my 2-1 post), my CDs were always getting stolen. I was a very early adopter of the digital compression (I even bought Sony MD recorders when they first came out) and the ways to deal with WAVs, and the advent of mp3. I don’t care much about CDs or music for that matter, and don’t keep music anywhere in the house or computers. I never paid attention to the prices when I would buy CDs in the past, but I would never spend a dime today for a CD.
CDs cut some of the highs and lows of music, so even with all the hype of digital music, LPs still have the best quality (if they’re not scratched that is). If I would ever go back into listening to music, I would probably buy LPs and a vacuum LP player (look these up)…
PS: In my post I said about copying CDs, I meant cassettes, CD copying didn’t come until a few years after (in the context of time I was talking about).
Wk2-1 DB Quickies: CD Ownership, Music Sharing or Spontaneous Listening
Copy from discussion post
I used to have CD’s while in the military, but they would get stolen all the time. Once, even customs stole a CD collection I had. Since then I just stopped buying CDs. After deciding on my media and communications career, I just stopped listening to music for recreation altogether. I sometimes listened to over 400 clips a day, making decisions if to use any or not, and eventually, I would prefer to listen to podcasts or news rather than music. I only have the music I have made for my videos in my iTunes library (and they’re only there for iMovie). I have an iTouch that only has apps and podcasts, mostly video ones. When other people listen to music, even to songs that I used to listen to, I tune them out and try to strike a conversation, or leave. I do recognize most songs I hear, and know their tunes. Maybe someday I’ll listen to music, but not at the moment. I have a commercial license for SonicFire Pro with over a hundred fifty albums (don’t ask how much this cost, but let’s say I could buy a nice car with the value of this collection), and it’s my music of choice (to work with, not to listen). I’m excited to hear that finally there is an upgrade for Adobe Audition, mostly to make some mixes that would be too hard to do with Garageband. Well, that’s my story with CDs and music. Hope to hear from you guys…
I used to have CD’s while in the military, but they would get stolen all the time. Once, even customs stole a CD collection I had. Since then I just stopped buying CDs. After deciding on my media and communications career, I just stopped listening to music for recreation altogether. I sometimes listened to over 400 clips a day, making decisions if to use any or not, and eventually, I would prefer to listen to podcasts or news rather than music. I only have the music I have made for my videos in my iTunes library (and they’re only there for iMovie). I have an iTouch that only has apps and podcasts, mostly video ones. When other people listen to music, even to songs that I used to listen to, I tune them out and try to strike a conversation, or leave. I do recognize most songs I hear, and know their tunes. Maybe someday I’ll listen to music, but not at the moment. I have a commercial license for SonicFire Pro with over a hundred fifty albums (don’t ask how much this cost, but let’s say I could buy a nice car with the value of this collection), and it’s my music of choice (to work with, not to listen). I’m excited to hear that finally there is an upgrade for Adobe Audition, mostly to make some mixes that would be too hard to do with Garageband. Well, that’s my story with CDs and music. Hope to hear from you guys…
Wk2 Wimba: Copyright Issues
The issues of copyright are really complex and even dangerous in a workplace. In some workplace, someone else decides what you are supposed to do about copyright (like in my workplace). I'm sure some other workplaces give you freedoms in what to choose, and put the responsibility on you when you make a bad call. Before going into a master course system (in which you, an instructional designer, makes the course and give limited rights to the faculty), we had many courses that had a lot of copyright violations, and when we would fix them, the faculty would do a big stink about it. They would say that they had an "academic freedom" to present any number of copyrighted items without repercussion. It wasn't even about fair use, they thought it was a right. I heard one faculty member say that if he was using copyrighted material and was caught, that our college should pay with no repercussion to him as many times as it took to teach the course. As absurd as that may sound, we battled with him, until he retired not long ago. I wasn't in the Wimba for the first part, so I just wanted to talk about my situation at work.
I saw that many of my classmates had doubts about the use of materials in their classrooms. And there is a disparaging in the different schools budgets, so I know that getting an account with a music library and a photo/video library is out of the question. But as we read in the book, all of this is invented or a game. Why not getting a fund raising with kids for a photo library, and let the kids make a collage of pictures to be hung in the school halls? Or with a music library, and make original CDs with parts of a music library? When I was in middle school, I got into a fund raiser to go to an amusement park, and I sold enough chocolates for my whole class to go (about 36 boxes of chocolate in 45 days). And that was for a one time thing. If I knew that I was doing it for access to a music library for all year, I would do it all over again in a flash. I'm only talking about the easiest route to avoid copyright issues, so I know there would be a lot of different opinions about this. I would love to hear more about your stories of how you avoided copyright issues, besides using open-source or freeware or fair use.
I saw that many of my classmates had doubts about the use of materials in their classrooms. And there is a disparaging in the different schools budgets, so I know that getting an account with a music library and a photo/video library is out of the question. But as we read in the book, all of this is invented or a game. Why not getting a fund raising with kids for a photo library, and let the kids make a collage of pictures to be hung in the school halls? Or with a music library, and make original CDs with parts of a music library? When I was in middle school, I got into a fund raiser to go to an amusement park, and I sold enough chocolates for my whole class to go (about 36 boxes of chocolate in 45 days). And that was for a one time thing. If I knew that I was doing it for access to a music library for all year, I would do it all over again in a flash. I'm only talking about the easiest route to avoid copyright issues, so I know there would be a lot of different opinions about this. I would love to hear more about your stories of how you avoided copyright issues, besides using open-source or freeware or fair use.
Wk2 Reading: Art of Possibility Chapters 1 – 4
The worst thing you can do to yourself is to doubt anything, because every time you do, a door of opportunity closes...
--David Cheng
This is an incredible book ("The Art of Possibility"), and it certified a lot of my life. Many of the things in the book were things I've been doing since I was a kid, including understanding that everything is a "game", about the world of measurement and competition, and about contributing to others. One time, a high school teacher told me after class that I had to "wake up", because I was living life as in a dream world. I told him back "In a few years, let's see what sort of dream I have made for myself." Unfortunately, the teacher died of leukemia, so I was never able to show him my "dream world." I think though that to understand and do some of the things in this book, a person would have to have some good amount of willpower, as I could see people giving up quickly without even trying, always looking for "reality."
I think that one of the things that got me thinking this way was an incident when I was an adolescent. There was a small creek with a waterfall near the house I grew up in. The water right next to the waterfall was very deep (maybe even deeper than 30 feet), and was known to have claimed many lives. When I was about 14 years old, I went swimming with some cousins, who were great swimmers, and had lived at the ocean coast all their lives. I went close to the waterfall and tried to test how deep it was there, when suddenly, I was caught in a whirlpool and couldn't swim out. I tried with all my strength to swim against the current, but it was too strong. I cried for help to my cousins, but they didn't want to help. My life flashed in my mind, and really thought I was going to die. Then I thought this "well if I'm going to die like this then lets play the whirlpool's game, and die with style," as I took my last bit of strength to sink myself inward into the whirlpool. It turned out that going inward through the whirlpool saved my life, as it "spit" me out from underneath and towards the creek's shore. At first, I got really mad with my cousins, but one of them told me "Hey, if you couldn't get out of that situation, who are we to try. We would have died also." They had total confidence in me to figure out what to do and how to save myself (at least that's the positive, non competitive spin I could put into that). Since then, I never cared about competition, and have lived as a gift to everyone that meets me and spends some time with me (sorry guys, emails and phone calls don't count). Overall, it's a great book, and I hope to read some of your stories as well...
--David Cheng
This is an incredible book ("The Art of Possibility"), and it certified a lot of my life. Many of the things in the book were things I've been doing since I was a kid, including understanding that everything is a "game", about the world of measurement and competition, and about contributing to others. One time, a high school teacher told me after class that I had to "wake up", because I was living life as in a dream world. I told him back "In a few years, let's see what sort of dream I have made for myself." Unfortunately, the teacher died of leukemia, so I was never able to show him my "dream world." I think though that to understand and do some of the things in this book, a person would have to have some good amount of willpower, as I could see people giving up quickly without even trying, always looking for "reality."
I think that one of the things that got me thinking this way was an incident when I was an adolescent. There was a small creek with a waterfall near the house I grew up in. The water right next to the waterfall was very deep (maybe even deeper than 30 feet), and was known to have claimed many lives. When I was about 14 years old, I went swimming with some cousins, who were great swimmers, and had lived at the ocean coast all their lives. I went close to the waterfall and tried to test how deep it was there, when suddenly, I was caught in a whirlpool and couldn't swim out. I tried with all my strength to swim against the current, but it was too strong. I cried for help to my cousins, but they didn't want to help. My life flashed in my mind, and really thought I was going to die. Then I thought this "well if I'm going to die like this then lets play the whirlpool's game, and die with style," as I took my last bit of strength to sink myself inward into the whirlpool. It turned out that going inward through the whirlpool saved my life, as it "spit" me out from underneath and towards the creek's shore. At first, I got really mad with my cousins, but one of them told me "Hey, if you couldn't get out of that situation, who are we to try. We would have died also." They had total confidence in me to figure out what to do and how to save myself (at least that's the positive, non competitive spin I could put into that). Since then, I never cared about competition, and have lived as a gift to everyone that meets me and spends some time with me (sorry guys, emails and phone calls don't count). Overall, it's a great book, and I hope to read some of your stories as well...
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