personal themes

Personal ThemesDeveloping a Code for Self & Investigating

Learning Styles

1Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Who are you?

What defines you?

What do you stand for?

How do you learn?


Exploring Themes Through The Modern Criminal& The Modern Man

Colt Harris-Moore Mr McCabe

List Themes List Themes-Family -Faith -Friends -Teaching -Coaching

-Creating -Ideas -Redemption -Perseverance-Happiness -Hope -Life -Education-Performing -Emotion -Individuality

-Responsibility -Challenge -Ambition -Enthusiasm


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/08/washington.barefoot.burglar/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/08/washington.barefoot.burglar/index.html

Who Are You?

Personal Themes

List your Personal Themes

You mean I have to think?


http://www.slideshare.net/MrsVanHout/common-themes-in-literature
















































Take your themes & pick out the 4 you feel

strongest about

See what m

y daddy did

Family Faith

Profession Hope

For Day 2

CORNERSTONES


Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

7SmartsWhat we’ll call


http://www.howardgardner.com/MI/mi.html

http://www.howardgardner.com/MI/mi.html

Multiple Intelligences

Musical

Logical/Mathematical

Intra-Personal

Inter-Personal

Linguistic

Spatial

Body/Kinesthetic

MusicalLogical/MathematicalIntra-PersonalInter-PersonalLinguisticSpatialBody/Kinesthetic

7SMARTSBody SmartMusic Smart

Numbers SmartWords SmartPeople Smart

Self SmartPicture/Space Smart


Matching the 7Smarts

Body Smart

Picture/Space Smart

Self SmartPeople Smart

Words Smart

Numbers Smart

Music Smart


If you had to guess...

Which would be your strong areas in the 7Smarts?How do you know?Test Time

On your sticky note, list & describe which 7Smarts you believe

you’re strong in.


How Do You Learn?What is

your learn

ing style?

Lets find out...


How do you learn?

Learning Styles Assessment from NC State

Penn State Inventory

From Diablo Valley College

I Googled “Learning Styles Inventory”, and several different free tests were on the first page of search results. Most of

these tests are quick, all are free. Take a moment to try more than one of the tests and see what they say about

your learning style.

VARK

University of South Dakota

Literacyworks.org

BGFL


http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htm

http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htm

http://www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.html

http://www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.html

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire

http://people.usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/stylest.html

http://people.usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/stylest.html

http://literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html

http://literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/questions.cfm

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/questions.cfm

List of Project Ideas

Animoto

Create an album: Photobucket Flickr FacebookMyspace

Relate the album to your personal themes

You Need AVisual

Representation of Themes

Voicethread ThemesXtranormal

Link to your website

OTHER IDEAS?

Create a Coat of Arms

Use your portfolio from Work Study as a referene12Tuesday, November 3, 2009

http://animoto.com/play/5K7EoeSFzrhwT7tH9xu1sw?autostart=true

http://animoto.com/play/5K7EoeSFzrhwT7tH9xu1sw?autostart=true

http://voicethread.com/%23home

http://voicethread.com/%23home

YOUR ASSESSMENTYou will be graded on:

Interpretation - Make connections within self and about self



Interpretation - Make connections within self and about self

Problem Solving - students will have to find solutions with software problems, & work around the filter



Interpretation - Make connections within self and about selfSynthesis - Putting everything together




Communication- clearly get across intended thoughts to audience and focus on thoughts





Creativity






Innovation- Put something new out there

Creativity





YOUR PLAYLISTHow do these songs relate to who you are?

What do these songs represent?

Printed with iTunes

1. Not the Same / Ben Folds 4:172. Terry's Song / Bruce Springsteen 4:113. All Will Be Well / The Gabe Dixon Band 4:104. The Dance / Garth Brooks 3:435. If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time / R. Kelly 6:206. Yellow Ledbetter / Pearl Jam 5:067. Takeover / Jay-Z 5:138. Both Sides Now (Remastered) / Joni Mitchell 5:499. Some People Change / Kenny Chesney 3:2710. edwards thrump up / Masked Marauders 8:1111. Ain't No Mountain High Enough / Marvin Gaye 2:2912. Shame / Matchbox Twenty 3:3513. Hero Of The Day / Metallica 4:2214. Sky's The Limit / The Notorious B.I.G Feat. 112 5:2915. Brick (University A Cappella Version) / The Ohio Universit… 4:0016. Track 20 / OutKast 6:5117. Crazy Love / Ray Charles & Van Morrison 3:4518. It Was A Good Year / Ray Charles & Willie Nelson 5:0019. Fingertips Pts 1&2 (1963) / Stevie Wonder 6:5520. Uptight (1966) / Stevie Wonder 2:5421. What I Got / Sublime 2:5122. Track 16 / Talib Kweli 3:5223. Waltzing Matilda / Tom Waits 6:3924. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / U2 5:0925. Fred Jones, Pt. 2 (University A Cappella Version) / The We… 3:43

and 5 more…

McCabe FoSho


PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
