http://www.dane-reynolds.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77FdOaQQPrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz3pMPbkavE
3. By choosing Dane Reynolds I hope to study a different culture that I am normally not privy to the surfing culture. Learn something completely new through him and his experiences as a surfer who has dedicated his life to it. I live in Sonoma and their really aren’t many beaches close enough where I meet and interact with a surfer kind of guy. I think of surfers as those bleach blond dudes on the beaches of Santa Monica or Ventura. On the beach with their surfboards waiting for what I’m guessing is the perfect time to hit the water. I want to learn more about the life of the surfer.
4.
a) I chose the surfer Dane Reynolds. He was born in Long Beach and his loves for surfing eventually lead his parents to move closer to the beach. There he honed his craft and entered surfing contests and began to win. I think I made a good choice picking someone I knew nothing about and will learn as much as I can from different sources about him. F
b) My choice is about learning and growth. By learning about Dane Reynolds I learn the perspective of a different person. Learn about surfing through his eyes. I’ve always been fascinated by the surfing culture from seeing a basic TV structured form of it. Enthralled by every aspect of it from the style, the art form that is surfing, the people involved to how one goes about waxing their board or why would one need to was their board. It all interests me for some odd reason so I want to learn more about it.
c) I had first chosen Bobby Martinez because he was one of the first surfers name that stood out to me from the Wikipedia website. Then I wondered if there could possibly be someone from that list that was closer to my age by one or two years. I looked through them all and Dane Reynolds was the candidate I chose. He’s a year older than I am and I figured I could possibly have more things in common with him because our age was so much closer. I probably also picked him because he’s nice to look at in my perspective. I’ve always thought it easier to learn from something that is good looking. This makes me think that I’m a tad bit superficial then again a lot of people are.
d) I learned that Dane Reynolds is more about being great at a few tricks and not being mediocre at many tricks. I would like to know how he decided that surfing was going to be it for the rest of his life.
5) One of the blogs that I read was of Anthony Musetti’s.
http://amusettihuman7.blogspot.com/2009/02/2b-sfmoma.html
He explored the SFMOMA and actually went to the museum. I learned that Anthony’s views on modern art are something he has to take a step back from to learn from it and not judge by one glance. I think his view is incredibly interesting and very true. When it comes to any type of art one must take a step back and not judge on first impressions. If you only see an art piece for only a few seconds and then walk away because you don’t like it then you are not willing to learn about it and its author. I think this one thing is related culturally to our class because it is how a person is brought up that teaches them how to learn from the world around them. Someone must have let Anthony know that one must not judge a book by its cover so he decides to take a step back when it comes to art and ponder instead of judging right away.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
2b The San Francisco Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/h
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGMj4sIGYc0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXfVSAPzkcE&feature=related
3)
The San Francisco Exploratorium connects me to my studies of humanities because it helps people that go to it better understand how things work. People learning how things work are more likely to learn how those things help the world run. Basic science projects help a person understand difficult things. Some people shy away from things that look difficult to understand but once they see how they work people realize that it was never hard at all. The Exploratorium also goes into showing people about the earth and how it sustains life. It shows various aspects of the world such as plant life, insects, the night sky, water in fundamental ways.
4)
a. I chose the San Francisco Exploratorium. You can touch, create and imagine in this place. It’s great to play and learn all at the same time. Frank Openheimer founded the Exploratorium after his experience with his brother on the Atom Bomb. He was a physicist and also a rancher. He understood that for others to understand they had to not just see from far away but to touch and feel hear and even smell. He created a fun environment of science. There are science experiments everywhere you see. Things you can step into like in a bubble hoop big enough for a person to be inside of. There are lots of people exploring things they have never seen and like children want to touch and be a part of to understand.
b. The Exploratorium teaches people difficult things with basic concepts that they can understand better. Possibly giving them things to aspire to learn more from and become.
c. When I was in Elementary school I went to it and haven’t gone since. I remember it being a great experience because as a 12 year old you want to explore not only by hearing a teacher talk about something in a classroom but by experiencing the thing itself. I feel great about my choice because it had me thinking about when I went and how my mother experienced the time with me as well, she was chaperone. It was a great time of nothing but exploration and realizing how simple things that looked difficult to understand weren’t. It’s an amazing place to go to and just walk around only watching others play and learn.
d. I learned that Frank Oppenheimer founded the Exploratorium after his experience with his brother the ‘Father’ of the Atom bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer. I’d like to know how he came up with what would be a part of the Exploratorium.
5) Dawnyel wants to learn more about her small town within it is where her family resides. Its funny to think about because I live next door in Sonoma and it’s a pretty small town too but unlike Dawnyel my whole family does not live here so I don’t have stories from buildings where my parents got married or anything like that. I want to go back to the small town in Mexico that my parents were married and touch the walls of my Grandparents house. Knowing that because it is so incredibly rural it will probably never lose its small town feel. It relates to our class because she is learning about what surrounds her right outside her parent’s home. Her own history and she is who she is. I personally think its related to her personal history and the small town USA context.
http://2apetaluma.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGMj4sIGYc0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXfVSAPzkcE&feature=related
3)
The San Francisco Exploratorium connects me to my studies of humanities because it helps people that go to it better understand how things work. People learning how things work are more likely to learn how those things help the world run. Basic science projects help a person understand difficult things. Some people shy away from things that look difficult to understand but once they see how they work people realize that it was never hard at all. The Exploratorium also goes into showing people about the earth and how it sustains life. It shows various aspects of the world such as plant life, insects, the night sky, water in fundamental ways.
4)
a. I chose the San Francisco Exploratorium. You can touch, create and imagine in this place. It’s great to play and learn all at the same time. Frank Openheimer founded the Exploratorium after his experience with his brother on the Atom Bomb. He was a physicist and also a rancher. He understood that for others to understand they had to not just see from far away but to touch and feel hear and even smell. He created a fun environment of science. There are science experiments everywhere you see. Things you can step into like in a bubble hoop big enough for a person to be inside of. There are lots of people exploring things they have never seen and like children want to touch and be a part of to understand.
b. The Exploratorium teaches people difficult things with basic concepts that they can understand better. Possibly giving them things to aspire to learn more from and become.
c. When I was in Elementary school I went to it and haven’t gone since. I remember it being a great experience because as a 12 year old you want to explore not only by hearing a teacher talk about something in a classroom but by experiencing the thing itself. I feel great about my choice because it had me thinking about when I went and how my mother experienced the time with me as well, she was chaperone. It was a great time of nothing but exploration and realizing how simple things that looked difficult to understand weren’t. It’s an amazing place to go to and just walk around only watching others play and learn.
d. I learned that Frank Oppenheimer founded the Exploratorium after his experience with his brother the ‘Father’ of the Atom bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer. I’d like to know how he came up with what would be a part of the Exploratorium.
5) Dawnyel wants to learn more about her small town within it is where her family resides. Its funny to think about because I live next door in Sonoma and it’s a pretty small town too but unlike Dawnyel my whole family does not live here so I don’t have stories from buildings where my parents got married or anything like that. I want to go back to the small town in Mexico that my parents were married and touch the walls of my Grandparents house. Knowing that because it is so incredibly rural it will probably never lose its small town feel. It relates to our class because she is learning about what surrounds her right outside her parent’s home. Her own history and she is who she is. I personally think its related to her personal history and the small town USA context.
http://2apetaluma.blogspot.com/
Monday, February 9, 2009
Assignment 1c
1. A. I picked Monica for my first person. She lives 4.7 miles away.
B. Next I picked Kendra and she's taking this class because she needs one more Humanities class to transfer to a UC.
2. A. On Monica's Blog she mentions that Paolo went to law school. He worked towards liberating those that are exploited for some reason or another.
B. On Kendra's Blog I learned that Paulo was born in Brazil and that it was there where his first theories came to fruition.
3. The information I've gathered from others students websites helps us understand and learn more about the study of humanities because it teaches us about the human condition. Why people learn and who they are as people. The study of humans in general how they are and work inside and out.
B. Next I picked Kendra and she's taking this class because she needs one more Humanities class to transfer to a UC.
2. A. On Monica's Blog she mentions that Paolo went to law school. He worked towards liberating those that are exploited for some reason or another.
B. On Kendra's Blog I learned that Paulo was born in Brazil and that it was there where his first theories came to fruition.
3. The information I've gathered from others students websites helps us understand and learn more about the study of humanities because it teaches us about the human condition. Why people learn and who they are as people. The study of humans in general how they are and work inside and out.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Assignment 1b
Paulo Freire is one of the most influential minds in the world of education. Throughout his life he created a system that allows people to learn for themselves. His various concepts such as "Empowerment", "Humanization", "Dialectic", and others are now used around the world in order to educate. He was a man that though of educating the masses through their own experiences and with those experiences create their own language and way to express themselves.
One of his most influential ideas that I believe is most important is his 'Banking' theory where a student, the bank, just takes in the knowledge the teachers is giving the student and basically regurgitates it back to the world the student lives in. This idea coincides with Mr. Freire and his belief that a student should not just receive information from his teacher, his peer, but be able to ask questions about the information given. Student and teacher developing a dialogue where they both give their ideas and thoughts and learn from each other on the basis of the conversation they are having and not just a one sided conversation.
Another important idea of his is that of the learning process. Mr. Freire believed that a person learns about the world around them and from that should actively think about and meditate about the situation that surrounds them. A person should be aware of the world they live in and because of it learn how to live in their world not a world dictated by those that tell them how. Mr. Freire explains that a person should not only understand their own world but try and change it and not live beneath another persons rules but create their own and with this their own language.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/27123/36
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
One of his most influential ideas that I believe is most important is his 'Banking' theory where a student, the bank, just takes in the knowledge the teachers is giving the student and basically regurgitates it back to the world the student lives in. This idea coincides with Mr. Freire and his belief that a student should not just receive information from his teacher, his peer, but be able to ask questions about the information given. Student and teacher developing a dialogue where they both give their ideas and thoughts and learn from each other on the basis of the conversation they are having and not just a one sided conversation.
Another important idea of his is that of the learning process. Mr. Freire believed that a person learns about the world around them and from that should actively think about and meditate about the situation that surrounds them. A person should be aware of the world they live in and because of it learn how to live in their world not a world dictated by those that tell them how. Mr. Freire explains that a person should not only understand their own world but try and change it and not live beneath another persons rules but create their own and with this their own language.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/27123/36
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Assignment 1a
1. Mayra
2. I'm taking this class because I wanted to understand what the study of Humanities really was. I hope to learn about Humanities and how it relates to the world.
3. I live 21.4 miles from campus.
4. It depends on what part of "California you are talking about. If you mean in the grand scheme of states then "California" is the Golden State. It is where Hollywood lies and those that want to venture into becoming famous "California" specifically Hollywood is where one wants to be. It can also be where wine country lies. Those are just a few things that come to mind. If you mean on a personal level then "California" is my home. I may not have been born in this state but have lived more than two thirds of my life here. I know nothing else this is where my family is and thus is where I'll always come back to.
The second question can also be answered from many perspectives. One being those more conservatives saying that "California" is just a blue state of hippies. Fast paced and always on the go. Another perspective is that of a young person wanting to move away from their parents living outside of "California" to them it might bring diversity. A new more different place. They way "California" is seen just depends on who is thinking it. It will always going to be different.
5. I have something similar to a blog. I created a basic learning website if it can be called a website at all but that was several semesters ago.
2. I'm taking this class because I wanted to understand what the study of Humanities really was. I hope to learn about Humanities and how it relates to the world.
3. I live 21.4 miles from campus.
4. It depends on what part of "California you are talking about. If you mean in the grand scheme of states then "California" is the Golden State. It is where Hollywood lies and those that want to venture into becoming famous "California" specifically Hollywood is where one wants to be. It can also be where wine country lies. Those are just a few things that come to mind. If you mean on a personal level then "California" is my home. I may not have been born in this state but have lived more than two thirds of my life here. I know nothing else this is where my family is and thus is where I'll always come back to.
The second question can also be answered from many perspectives. One being those more conservatives saying that "California" is just a blue state of hippies. Fast paced and always on the go. Another perspective is that of a young person wanting to move away from their parents living outside of "California" to them it might bring diversity. A new more different place. They way "California" is seen just depends on who is thinking it. It will always going to be different.
5. I have something similar to a blog. I created a basic learning website if it can be called a website at all but that was several semesters ago.
6. PC.
7. I thought I would be missing the inauguration of our new president but found a way to see it. A historic day not only for Barack Obama being the first African American president but for the hope he brings with him. No pressure, Mr. President.
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