My attitude isn't entirely positive or negative by default. For example, my attitude towards this assignment is fairly negative, I'm inclined to think it's mindless busywork. My attitude towards Charles Swindoll poetry is also somewhat dismal. My attitude toward the idea of going home on the other hand is fairly positive. My attitude towards service learning isn't static. It may differ according wheather or not my cherios were stale that morning. I dont think it needs any specific improvement, and I feel even less need to write a paragraph about it. Everyone has probably influenced me in some way or the other, a full explanation would be fairly extensive.

service learning blog week 10

At the moment I'm working on a "self portriat" collage, a collection of images that somehow represent me. Next week we are going to start on actual self portriats, in any medium. I don't how broad "any medium" is actually meant to be. The portriants are going to be done from pictures of ourselves and several "expressive" objects that we are supposed to come up with. There isn't really that much to talk about here.

week 10 service learning blog

examples of communication

written: letters, books, newspaper

Written communication doesn't neccesarily express tone or sentiment. It can, but doesn't always. It depends on who's writing it.

verbal: song, conversation, radio

This form is the most immediate and direct. Since most speech is inherently public it can also be less accurate or honest as it is the most directly influenced by social norms and constraints.

noverbal: art, gestures, clothing

This type of communication is more abstract and difficult to dissect directly. I think most people find this more difficult to interpret than other forms.

communication skills

I have good written communication skills. I don't generally communicate well verbally, or converationally. It varies depending on who I'm communicating with. I don't effeciently communicate in "encounters". I don't know that my self projections are always accurate; I dont translate well.

service learning blog week 9

My attitude isn't a static thing, and I wouldn't describe it as wholly positive or negative. It fluctuates. For example my attitude towards this assignment is fairly negative, and my feelings towards Charley Swindoll's poetry is also dismal. My attitude towards going home on the other hand is comparatively positive. The same applies to my attitude toward service learning. Other people sometimes influence my attitude according to their own; I can't think of any examples that I particularly want to mention here, I think its a widely understood concept anyway.

service learning blog week 8 journal

This week in service learning I worked on a still life of an apple on a cutting board, focusing on technical drawing, shading, coloration etc. This is a particularly exhilirating assignment as you can imagine. I've noticed I'm slightly less interested in art projects when I have to do them. My art teacher is somewhat more rigid about assignments and time pacing than what I would generally expect.

service learning blog week 8: health hazards

I'm not sure what the potential hazards of my service learning site are, we meet on the school campus. Was a lead base used in the paint here? Perhaps a lingering poltrageist from the mental facility? A priest would be glad to drive out any demonic spirits. There were some 19th century rumours of internal combustion that I don't think were ever entirely disproved, so thats always a possibility. Also an astroid may or may not collide with the earth sometime in the next several hundred years.

The U.S. Department of Labor occupational safety and heatlh administration does not contain any information on internal combustion. They do however provide several procedures for sampling and analyzing of a premises in order to determine the sites cotton dust content. According to OSHA, this cotton dust can be potentially harmful and cause allergies. Rather than counting individual dust grains, the dust in an area instead be measured with a device called the Lumsden-Lynch vertical elutriator, which operates at a flow rate of 7.4 + or - 0.2 liters/minute.

service learning blog week 7

I'm not sure what career path I want to pursue, and not sure how my experiences influence my ambigious career. I was influenced considerably by reading books, which be obviously helpful if I did anything involving english. Also working, or sitting around, at my dad's art store put me around art and artist, which is something I'm interested in. It also gave me some basic idea of how retail works, though I'm not interested in retail. I think every experience you have influences you and everything in some way in another, so in summary living on earth for the past seventeen years will probably an influential experience towards whatever occupation I go into. I probably wont do anything in my daily life specifically for the purpose of adding valuable skills to my resume, to be honest.

service learning blog week 6

I don't really like time management, its more stressful than anything. I'm not into the daily planner and effeciency idea either; I usually waste time wondering whether or not I'm being effectively effective. When I try to prioritize I end up vacillating over what order my priorities should be in. Planning ahead too specifically make work seem more drugderous, I'm less effective when my time is put into linear slots.

Service learning blog week 5

My primary Holland test personality type is artistic, which obviously fits well with my service learning as I'm doing art. My secondary personality type is supposedly social, which is odd and probably wrong. The Holland personality test is very over simplified by the way, the Jung test is exponentially more useful. I'm suppose to sketch three objects that somehow identify me this week in service learning. I've done this assignment several times before and usually end up drawing my shoes; I'm not sure that this identifies me but its a reliably available subject and makes for interesting sketching because of all the contours.

service learning journal week 4

Last week we looked at a book of art composed by Alan lee, one of the illustrators for Lord of the Rings. The book showed preliminary sketches and different stages of his work; most of these were concept designs for characters, landscapes and architecture. Other than that we scanned other books about modern art and pop art, including one about box art. Box art was interesting, basically a style revolving around assemblage of found objects; specifically Candy Jerdigans art, revolving around objects she found on the streets of New York.

Our assignment for this week was to write a paragraph about how other artist work, particularly the one's we looked over, influence us. We can also make a sketch or drawing to represent this.

Service learning blog week 4

Visual learning

Algebra 3
-take notes
-keep notes in a notebook
-review notes occasionally
-do not shred, incinerate, throw away, or feed to strange animals
-make charts of math concepts

English 12
-take notes
-keep notes in a notebook
-make outlines for assignments

Service learning blog 3

Be prepared and getting started as my skills for improvement. I chose be prepared because its obnoxious to come to class and have to spend ten minutes asking for a pencil; and getting started because otherwise I will probably end up staring at the screen for several hours, or engage in other exhilarating activities such as pencil rolling or eraser flipping.

Five ways to take better notes:

-review notes from previous class before starting
-bring several pens and notebook paper to class
-only write down main ideas
-use abbreviations
-re-write or review notes after class

Five ways to control procrastination
-self motivate
-work on task as part of a group
-get help from teachers or other students
-eliminate distractions
-set reasonable standards

Service learning blog 2

I'm in the art service learning class. Last week we looked at lettering fonts used in advertising and how the influence the readers. Various fonts are used to create different associations, depending on what is being marketed. This is vaguely interesting, we're suppose to create our own font using our initials. I drew the letter C in the form of a tree, I have doubts as to whether this expresses me as a person in any way shape or form. There really isn't that much to say about the class at this point. The teacher is a college professor, she paints abstract nature related landscapes with acrylics and hates oil paint. I like oil paint and dislike acrylics. Aside from this she seems to be an interesting teacher.

Service learning blog 1

I could improve in the area of setting goals and expectations. I generally don't set clear goals, which can lead to procrastination and misdirection, as it can be easy to become distracted if you weren't really sure what you were doing in the first place.World domination seems like a reasonable goal for this week. As world leader it will be my first and foremost occupation will be the improvement of daytime television and establishing elvish as an international second language. I would also like to win the nobel peace prize, establish world peace, and get up on time in the morning.

In addition to what is listed here I think it's important to understand the value of learning for its own sake. Learning is often encouraged entirely on the basis that it will cause you to make more money, in my opinion this is one of the least important reasons for learning.