- Categories
- Real Students
- Life File 7
- This Ain't Grade 13
- Life File 7
- V.A.R.K Comparisons between students and teachers
- Do's and Don'ts
- Which 16 Habits of Mind are you good/suck at?
- Keeping Your Head Above Water
- Which 16 Habits of Mind are you good/suck at?
- Keep your head above water
- Habits of Mind
- Which 16 Habits of Mind are you good/suck at?
- Steps to Success
- Keep your head above water
- First Week
- V.A.R.K Comparisons between students and teachers
- Clues from the Formerly Clueless
- V.A.R.K Comparisons between students and teachers
Monday, November 9, 2009
Potential: Posts to modify, and their categories
How to Market the Wiki
Some methods to market the wiki:
- Facebook
- (Ads, or profile)
- Submit the URL to google
- Put on Sarge site (Homepage?)
- Integrate into SOAR
- Sheet of paper w/ address, and some quick info
- Give before or after
- Brochures
- Flyers/Posters around campus
- Have Kemper do a video on it
- Have an event about it on the release date
- Put the URL on all teachers syllabi
- Put into the SDV Resource text book
- Put on Teacher sites
- Blackboard
- Independent sites
- Use Sarge's announcement system to send an email to all sarge students about it
- Have students walking around, handing out flyers
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Two more possible names for the wiki
As of right now, I am heavily biased on:
Sarge: Wait... What?
I came up with it, and I think that it will get the attention of any body who sees it. I think even if somebody just looks at it, their curiosity will be piqued, and they'll click it. This will result in a lot more traffic than would be with a different name. In my biased opinion of course.
A couple other names might be:
What to do for Sarge.
All your questions about Sarge: Answered
Sarge: Wait... What?
I came up with it, and I think that it will get the attention of any body who sees it. I think even if somebody just looks at it, their curiosity will be piqued, and they'll click it. This will result in a lot more traffic than would be with a different name. In my biased opinion of course.
A couple other names might be:
What to do for Sarge.
All your questions about Sarge: Answered
3 Possible Posts to the Wiki
I think these are 3 key things that should be included in this monster we're creating:
1. The First Week
- I'd like this in the wiki because the first week was stressful for me, and I think it will be for other freshman as well. In this section would be things like finding your classes, speaking up, finalizing classes etc, etc.
2. Keeping Your Head Above Water
- I'd like this section in the wiki because it is so important to a college students success. Like a freshman in high school, I'm assuming that a college freshman's grades drop considerably when faced with all the sudden freedom of college. They do what they've wanted to do for a long time, and forget about school work. To assume though is to make an ass out of you and me. (Comment if you get that. :) This section would give reasons why to not slide down that slippery slope no matter how fun it may be, and resources to help you stay off that slope, and help get off it.
3. Insider Knowledge
- I feel that this section would be important because I think everybody wants to know the ins and outs of where ever they're going to be spending the majority of their time. Like work. If you work somewhere for long enough, you know that job inside out and backwards, all the loop holes, who to talk to for something... Everything. This section would include things like good places to study, well known professors and other interesting and potentially useful things and resources.
1. The First Week
- I'd like this in the wiki because the first week was stressful for me, and I think it will be for other freshman as well. In this section would be things like finding your classes, speaking up, finalizing classes etc, etc.
2. Keeping Your Head Above Water
- I'd like this section in the wiki because it is so important to a college students success. Like a freshman in high school, I'm assuming that a college freshman's grades drop considerably when faced with all the sudden freedom of college. They do what they've wanted to do for a long time, and forget about school work. To assume though is to make an ass out of you and me. (Comment if you get that. :) This section would give reasons why to not slide down that slippery slope no matter how fun it may be, and resources to help you stay off that slope, and help get off it.
3. Insider Knowledge
- I feel that this section would be important because I think everybody wants to know the ins and outs of where ever they're going to be spending the majority of their time. Like work. If you work somewhere for long enough, you know that job inside out and backwards, all the loop holes, who to talk to for something... Everything. This section would include things like good places to study, well known professors and other interesting and potentially useful things and resources.
Wikiworthy Candidates
The 4 posts from my blog which I believe to be "wiki worthy" are as follows:
1. Life File 7
2. 16 Habits Of Mind
3. Journal: Sept 23/24
4. Myers/Briggs and VARK with Students and Teachers
1. Life File 7
2. 16 Habits Of Mind
3. Journal: Sept 23/24
4. Myers/Briggs and VARK with Students and Teachers
Monday, November 2, 2009
Learning Reflection: Week of Oct. 26th
I learned this week that you really need to be on top of your "game" so to speak pretty much all of the time during college. There are no lulls in activity that you need to be aware of.
As an example of this, I was to turn in a current event for my BUS 100 class and could not turn it in for several factors. I ended up not being able to turn it in by about 2 or 3 minutes. I still feel that I have been wronged by my teacher, but I also realized that it was and still is my responsibility to be keyed in to what I need to do and what I need to turn in, both on time.
Although this continues to be an ever present problem for me, I think that I'm getting better at combating it through the uses of Kaizen, and sheer will. The fact that I was only late by 3 minutes is a great motivator to get things done super early now as a matter of fact. I've taken that away from the previous experience as well. Get things done fast or early, and you won't have to do them later, leaving you more time to get more things done, or to do what you actually want to do.
As an example of this, I was to turn in a current event for my BUS 100 class and could not turn it in for several factors. I ended up not being able to turn it in by about 2 or 3 minutes. I still feel that I have been wronged by my teacher, but I also realized that it was and still is my responsibility to be keyed in to what I need to do and what I need to turn in, both on time.
Although this continues to be an ever present problem for me, I think that I'm getting better at combating it through the uses of Kaizen, and sheer will. The fact that I was only late by 3 minutes is a great motivator to get things done super early now as a matter of fact. I've taken that away from the previous experience as well. Get things done fast or early, and you won't have to do them later, leaving you more time to get more things done, or to do what you actually want to do.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Life File #7 (Where'd 6 go...?)
The yellow box that we were told to look at (top of page 290) solidifies something for me. That I am NOT alone. Although it feels much that way sometimes. "... Many twenty somethings are in the same boat." Having that quote put in a book that was published and distributed to millions of people my age around the states really drives home that people are having the same difficulties as me with college and managing life in general.
I think that I am in a sort of crisis mode, but not fully "in". I can keep control of the stuff that really matters to me, and can keep control of school most of the time, but the other stuff that still needs to get done, doesn't really get done anymore, unless I sit down, and specifically alott a good chunk of time to doing so. For example: Eating meals during the day. I have so much to do, that eating seems like it can wait. I've now usually ended up eating only 1 meal a day at around 3 in the afternoon, or 12 at night. I need to gain full control, or I can tell, that one day, I'm just going to basically collapse and I'm going to need around a week to recuperate or something...
I don't plan on needing that much time to recover from my mistakes. I simply don't have THAT much time to waste on trying to feel better. So the steps that I'm going to take to fix this are:
1. Get up earlier/on time (imagine that...) to...
1.1 Eat a good breakfast every day.
2. Go to school knowing whats going on, like when tests, are and being alert during class.
3. Doing homework and after class stuff in the library when it's fresh in my mind and not going home.
4. Talk to my dad about not working. This week, I'm working 26 hours at Ukrops. 26 hours of which I could be putting towards my education, and getting the best grades that I can. Instead I'm earning money, which I admit is VERY important in the kind of society that we have today, but my question is:
4.1 Find out if the amount of money made while working in school is going to be greater in the long run than opposed to not working in school, then getting a job after I graduate. Logic dictates that the more money you have, the more money you have, obviously. But is it worth it physically, mentally, and academically? I'm beginning to think not, but then comes into the play, the paradigm that college students work to pay off their expenses. Which of course I have which means that I should be working maybe even more than I already am. It's a terrible paradox really. Either that or I'm just whining with no right to, and am trying to justify it.
5. Go to bed on time. Self explanatory: more sleep, more energy = more "doing" = less work in the long run.
6. STOP PROCRASTINATING
Of course, part of this crisis mode is "curve balls." I honestly was a tad surprised about my mid-term grade for the portfolio. I thought I nailed that one. I thought that grade was a pretty curved pitch But another curve ball is that the midterm grade I got could be completely erased if I REALLY nail the final portfolio and its content. A great opportunity that I'm making absolutely sure I don't miss/loose.
Since I'm doing so much to get this final portfolio right, I feel like if I devote maybe even 1/2 of the effort directed to the portfolio towards... My business class for example..., that I'll be able to handle anything that comes my way. So in essence, I feel prepared for college, but am not fully ready... Yet.
I think that I am in a sort of crisis mode, but not fully "in". I can keep control of the stuff that really matters to me, and can keep control of school most of the time, but the other stuff that still needs to get done, doesn't really get done anymore, unless I sit down, and specifically alott a good chunk of time to doing so. For example: Eating meals during the day. I have so much to do, that eating seems like it can wait. I've now usually ended up eating only 1 meal a day at around 3 in the afternoon, or 12 at night. I need to gain full control, or I can tell, that one day, I'm just going to basically collapse and I'm going to need around a week to recuperate or something...
I don't plan on needing that much time to recover from my mistakes. I simply don't have THAT much time to waste on trying to feel better. So the steps that I'm going to take to fix this are:
1. Get up earlier/on time (imagine that...) to...
1.1 Eat a good breakfast every day.
2. Go to school knowing whats going on, like when tests, are and being alert during class.
3. Doing homework and after class stuff in the library when it's fresh in my mind and not going home.
4. Talk to my dad about not working. This week, I'm working 26 hours at Ukrops. 26 hours of which I could be putting towards my education, and getting the best grades that I can. Instead I'm earning money, which I admit is VERY important in the kind of society that we have today, but my question is:
4.1 Find out if the amount of money made while working in school is going to be greater in the long run than opposed to not working in school, then getting a job after I graduate. Logic dictates that the more money you have, the more money you have, obviously. But is it worth it physically, mentally, and academically? I'm beginning to think not, but then comes into the play, the paradigm that college students work to pay off their expenses. Which of course I have which means that I should be working maybe even more than I already am. It's a terrible paradox really. Either that or I'm just whining with no right to, and am trying to justify it.
5. Go to bed on time. Self explanatory: more sleep, more energy = more "doing" = less work in the long run.
6. STOP PROCRASTINATING
Of course, part of this crisis mode is "curve balls." I honestly was a tad surprised about my mid-term grade for the portfolio. I thought I nailed that one. I thought that grade was a pretty curved pitch But another curve ball is that the midterm grade I got could be completely erased if I REALLY nail the final portfolio and its content. A great opportunity that I'm making absolutely sure I don't miss/loose.
Since I'm doing so much to get this final portfolio right, I feel like if I devote maybe even 1/2 of the effort directed to the portfolio towards... My business class for example..., that I'll be able to handle anything that comes my way. So in essence, I feel prepared for college, but am not fully ready... Yet.
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