4-4-12

Everyday you learn something new. Today in Language Arts we got back our research papers. I've been a bit excited/anxious, even though I had pretty much forgot about that paper. I got a 12.5 out of 16. At first glance that seemed really bad, considering it was around a C, but I feel a bit better after understanding that this is a "rough rough" draft, and that I have done well compared to my peers, and out of those who I read, I though they were good. Some of the things that are noted in the edits/revisions on my paper I do not nessecarily agree with, but I don't know everything, and will probably find that what I think is wrong. I do think that the APA template didn't help, because even though I used it along with many people I know, our average grade was probably barley more than a 2 out of 4. I also think that we were led away from good formatting (based on the presentation) by BibMe. The BibMe formatting was much different from the APA formatting in the presentation. I am a bit excited to go over my paper with the teachers, but also a bit nervous because I already know we will disagree about a lot of things.  

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

4-3-12

Everyday you learn something new. Things with my group are still going extremely well. Everything has fallen into place. Our website, www.evograffiti.weebly.com is all written, we just need to finish putting up our research paper. I have talked to Terry Laaker and we are meeting on Thursday. I have also spoken with Lydia Odem and handled our supplies and clean up date schedule. The flyer has been designed. We do still need to post it though. We also need to get our video going if we are still going to do it. Next week should be a lot of work our presentation. I'm glad to see that we went from being the group that seemed a little behind to being almost done.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-30-12

Everyday you learn something new. Today was a very good day for our group and project. We contacted the City Of Phoenix to get approval on our clean up, and found out that they were going to give us materials as well. This is great because we can now assign the people who were in charge of materials to other tasks. With this new amount of resources things should come together pretty quickly. I am very excited to see what will happen next week once things are up and running after the weekend. We have several communication actions to make on Monday so it should be an efficient day. I can wait to see how all f this goes.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-28-12

Everyday you learn something new. It seems that our project is coming together pretty well. Everything iss up and running its mostly just making this better that we still need to do. We d need to start the video soon, but I think that we will have that covered next week. I think we need some more work done on the actual clean up dates though. It seems to be the one unknown. The awareness is going well, but the actual clean up is not moving forward at all. Hopefully we can get that going next week too.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-26-12 (Makeup for 3-16-12)

Everyday you learn something new. I guess since I'm writing this right after spring break I should probably blog about it. I did a lot of camping over the break witch was really fun. I rediscovered my love for it, and thought about why I hadn't gone in so long. It was mainly due to the fact that I had become very busy and finances hadn't permitted until this last week. It's pretty interesting thinking about how society and human life moves so fast. For me It's nice to slow down, but I think a lot about all the things I want to do. I wonder if other people experience this too. I also thought about why people don't like camping, as I had been talking to a friend who didn't. Maybe it is just because people are too stuck to their electronics and comfortable luxuries.  
 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-14-12

Everyday you learn something new. Today was a very constructive day in Language Arts for both myself and my group. I have come up with a few ideas for my "spreading the word". As I've said before I plan to make and distribute photos, and create a website. I also want to make a video to put on Youtube and use the Kony style of spreading the video through social media. My group made a few big decision too, to scrap our wall idea. We decided it was a bit improbable with our resources and that we had not done enough research to continue with it. I think it was a wise decision, because I feel that the idea is personally very useless and unsafe, as well as difficult to impossible for us to do with the limits we've been given.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-12-12

Everyday you learn something new. Now that we are pretty close to being finished with Tuesdays With Morrie I thought I might share my opinion compared to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I have so far liked Tuesdays With Morrie a lot more. I remember thinking that The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was slow, but Tuesdays With Morrie is also slow, and I like it. I find it interesting how there are so many flashbacks (convenient for literary elements). I think it has a similar parallel plot element with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I am finding that Tuesdays With Morrie seems very short. When doing the reading for each section it seems like you don't read very long and there are only 4 sections. It's unfortunate that were going to be done soon.
 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown