In this podcast presentation member of a faculty of an educational institution spoke of their ideas of why and how technology should and can be implemented into the school’s curricula. The majority of educators express some interest in incorporating IT into their subject areas since most of their students express some need for it and are already aware of their usage and they all would prefer training through interpersonal contact (rather than reading how to) implement such technologies.
This podcast is connected to our Personal Journey Life Writing course since the class was required to read and listen to both blogs and podcasts, participate in discussion and post commentaries. We were also requires to post blogs bases on topics looked at in the course and since this is an online course this demonstrated how technology has advanced and how educational institutions are adapting.
I would definitely recommend this podcast because it is very informative and relevant to present day learning and where one gets to express themselves in this technological era.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Blog 5: Podcasts
What I observed from these two podcasts are the way the students read their memoirs about various topics and used complimenting music to go with it. This really grabbed my attention. These podcasts could be connected to our course because we have also written our very own memoirs and have also read memoirs from various authors.
I would recommend these podcasts because this is a very interesting way of getting people to listen to memoirs, rather than reading them which could be quite boring at times.
Friday, April 13, 2007
PODCASTS
The two podcasts that I listened to and found interesting are:
1. Digital Planet:
This podcast talks about technology especially focusing on computers and the internet and the globalization of technology and digital transformation. It also mentions that by the end of 2015 the goal is to provide a laptop to each youngster around the world at a surprising price of $100.00 per laptop computer. Overall a very interesting podcast to listen and my observation was that this podcast talked about the global issues and computers and technology around the world.
2. Marwan: (The Fictional Autobiography of 9/11 Terrorist)
This podcast is also an interesting one, it talks about the thoughts and ideas in the mind of a terrorist and what makes a terrorist. The one observation I made in this podcast is that this podcast is trying to fight against terrorism by giving knowledge to people.
I would definitely recommend the above mentioned podcasts because they are very interesting and informative and also they have a lot of material to them that could be used for research and other studies.
1. Digital Planet:
This podcast talks about technology especially focusing on computers and the internet and the globalization of technology and digital transformation. It also mentions that by the end of 2015 the goal is to provide a laptop to each youngster around the world at a surprising price of $100.00 per laptop computer. Overall a very interesting podcast to listen and my observation was that this podcast talked about the global issues and computers and technology around the world.
2. Marwan: (The Fictional Autobiography of 9/11 Terrorist)
This podcast is also an interesting one, it talks about the thoughts and ideas in the mind of a terrorist and what makes a terrorist. The one observation I made in this podcast is that this podcast is trying to fight against terrorism by giving knowledge to people.
I would definitely recommend the above mentioned podcasts because they are very interesting and informative and also they have a lot of material to them that could be used for research and other studies.
Monday, April 9, 2007
Blog 4: Villain or Not?
B. Is this a memoir without villains?
In the Memoir My Father’s House by Sylvia Fraser, there is a villain in the memoir and that is her father who sexually abused her when she was very young. We know this by reading the memoir’s two different italics, bold face writing and regular roman print. The italic writing represents the time which the abuse took place, the bold face writing represent the passages derived through recovered memory, and the regular roman writing represents descriptions of past. All of these different methods supports the idea of Sylvia’s father being a an inhumane beast, who just doesn’t have a mind of its own and just tries to over power everyone who is smaller to him. Another quote that supports that there is a villain in this memoir is that when Sylvia says “I might have been diagnosed as a child possessed by the devil. What, in fact, I had been possessed by was daddy’s forked instrument – the devil in man.” p. 492. this quote supports the idea of Sylvia’s father being the devil or the evil figure in the memoir thus proving that there is a villain in this memoir.
In the Memoir My Father’s House by Sylvia Fraser, there is a villain in the memoir and that is her father who sexually abused her when she was very young. We know this by reading the memoir’s two different italics, bold face writing and regular roman print. The italic writing represents the time which the abuse took place, the bold face writing represent the passages derived through recovered memory, and the regular roman writing represents descriptions of past. All of these different methods supports the idea of Sylvia’s father being a an inhumane beast, who just doesn’t have a mind of its own and just tries to over power everyone who is smaller to him. Another quote that supports that there is a villain in this memoir is that when Sylvia says “I might have been diagnosed as a child possessed by the devil. What, in fact, I had been possessed by was daddy’s forked instrument – the devil in man.” p. 492. this quote supports the idea of Sylvia’s father being the devil or the evil figure in the memoir thus proving that there is a villain in this memoir.
Podcasts About Canadian Authors
The name of the two podcasts I listened to were two interviews by Judith Piazza with Alice Bateman, Canadian author and songwriter. Alice Bateman discussed her two published books, the latest called “One American Dreamer, a rag to riches story by Don Tietz. She stressed her interest in this book because it encourages young writers to reach for the best always through writing. She talked her website, alicecbateman.com, where her bibliography is listed and also information about how she can be contacted. Her website also has song lyrics and links to some organizations she is involved in, like one called “Project Smile”.
This podcast is connected to our course because we have discussed in length memoirs done by Canadian authors. This podcast introduces us to new Canadian authors from a different perspective.
I would recommend this podcast to anyone is wants to learn more about Canadian authors. I would recommend this podcast because Canadian authors need our support and authors such as Bateman want Canadians to explore new narratives and books by Canadian authors.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Without a Villain or Not
Blog 4-week 11
B. Is this a memoir without villains?
I think that the memoir by Sylva Fraser My Fathers House did have a villain in it only when she was writing in Italics format because the descriptions in words she used made my imagination create an image of the other person (her father) look like this beast. Usually when the beast is the villain they hurt others, want to dominate and want have power over everyone that is smaller then them, they also need to be destroyed. In Sylva’s case she was being sexually assaulted by the beast (her father) regularly. I believe that this memoir did have a villain, especially when Sylva was creating the image to allow other readers imagine how she felt when the beast (her father) was coming after her.
B. Is this a memoir without villains?
I think that the memoir by Sylva Fraser My Fathers House did have a villain in it only when she was writing in Italics format because the descriptions in words she used made my imagination create an image of the other person (her father) look like this beast. Usually when the beast is the villain they hurt others, want to dominate and want have power over everyone that is smaller then them, they also need to be destroyed. In Sylva’s case she was being sexually assaulted by the beast (her father) regularly. I believe that this memoir did have a villain, especially when Sylva was creating the image to allow other readers imagine how she felt when the beast (her father) was coming after her.
Podcasts
The podcasts I read for this blog were both from the CBC radio website. They were both dealing with the rual areas in Newfoundland, which as some of you may already know my home provience. The stories I read were about the rual areas and how times have changed so much in the provience of Newfoundland. Most people always think that all Newfoundlanders do is drink and fish. This always makes me mad because it's such a sterotype. Newfoundlanders are not all like that. Most of the people residing in Newfoundland now are elders who have grown up and lived there and now will die there as well.
The stories I looked at talked about the rual areas and how when they lived there years before the town was alive and busy. Now as most people return to these areas there is barely anything left there but a few empty houses and as I said before, elders. Two things which I saw that related to this course was how these stories I read about were true and based on true experiences and real places. This relates back to the memoirs we read; they too were based on real experiences. Another relation was to the life writing part of these stories I read. Like I said before these stories about the rual areas in Newfoundland were true and based on real people and real places where people once lived and then once the fishery closed, their lives were changed. I would strongly suggest anyone who puts the label of the "drinking and fishing newfie" on us Newfoundlanders to look at these podcast because then you can have a better outlook as to what really happened in our small island provience and what is still occuring there today.
The stories I looked at talked about the rual areas and how when they lived there years before the town was alive and busy. Now as most people return to these areas there is barely anything left there but a few empty houses and as I said before, elders. Two things which I saw that related to this course was how these stories I read about were true and based on true experiences and real places. This relates back to the memoirs we read; they too were based on real experiences. Another relation was to the life writing part of these stories I read. Like I said before these stories about the rual areas in Newfoundland were true and based on real people and real places where people once lived and then once the fishery closed, their lives were changed. I would strongly suggest anyone who puts the label of the "drinking and fishing newfie" on us Newfoundlanders to look at these podcast because then you can have a better outlook as to what really happened in our small island provience and what is still occuring there today.
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