Letter: It Was Good to See You Again
Being able to converse with each other through the Fishbowl is good because it allows us to analyze word selection. The symbols we choose are reflective of our experiences in life, along with what images pop into your head when reading them. The Fishbowl is a record of your selection, and it allows for a visual comparison of choices and perspectives.
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emilymilich
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Letter: Looking at Ourselves Again
I think that my personal experience in the Fishbowl has helped me understand the importance of choice, and has given me the ability to express myself a little better. Seeing the importance in words has been helpful in making my text more concise. I never thought about the importance of word choice, but now I find it imperative to find words that are representative of my message. I think that I am able to create value with my writing when I am making my message clearly understood. The Fishbowl is a good place for practice with this. Your group is of people you trust, and people who will be honest with you about whether or not your text evoked the feeling you aimed to express.
I think that my personal experience in the Fishbowl has helped me understand the importance of choice, and has given me the ability to express myself a little better. Seeing the importance in words has been helpful in making my text more concise. I never thought about the importance of word choice, but now I find it imperative to find words that are representative of my message. I think that I am able to create value with my writing when I am making my message clearly understood. The Fishbowl is a good place for practice with this. Your group is of people you trust, and people who will be honest with you about whether or not your text evoked the feeling you aimed to express.
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emilymilich
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Letter: Letter of Recommendation
In order to be an author on this text, you need to have actually gotten something out of it. By absorbing this vocabulary, integrating it into your everyday language and text, you have made yourself one step closer to being an author. You need to read the letters you were sent, and to reflect on them. Write out your response. Delete it all, then write it again. You need to understand the people you were asked to search on Google. You don’t have to know all about them, but what they’ve done in their field. Finally, you need to do the 10 + 1 steps, and show that you can get to that level of deeper learning. Authorship is not for those that have not reaped the benefits of this course.
In order to be an author on this text, you need to have actually gotten something out of it. By absorbing this vocabulary, integrating it into your everyday language and text, you have made yourself one step closer to being an author. You need to read the letters you were sent, and to reflect on them. Write out your response. Delete it all, then write it again. You need to understand the people you were asked to search on Google. You don’t have to know all about them, but what they’ve done in their field. Finally, you need to do the 10 + 1 steps, and show that you can get to that level of deeper learning. Authorship is not for those that have not reaped the benefits of this course.
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emilymilich
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Letter: Reflecting on One’s History
The Fishbowl is the grounds of a network between students in the classroom. It allows for the systematic interplay that is needed for us to build knowledge among each other. We are each influenced by what is shared among the group. The text we are reading is affective of our emotions, mental imagery, and choices we make in the Fishbowl going forward. Each post is a reaction to the previous posts that inspired it, along with our own life perceptions.
The Fishbowl is the grounds of a network between students in the classroom. It allows for the systematic interplay that is needed for us to build knowledge among each other. We are each influenced by what is shared among the group. The text we are reading is affective of our emotions, mental imagery, and choices we make in the Fishbowl going forward. Each post is a reaction to the previous posts that inspired it, along with our own life perceptions.
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emilymilich
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Letter: Thoughts, The Morning After Thanksgiving
Your relevancy in the Fishbowl is dependent on yourself and your readers. With yourself, you need to post regularly, and add value with your text. Otherwise, you are not creating life within your Fishbowl, as readers will not want to be a part of it. If you do not have readers, your text doesn’t become meaningless, but it does become less relevant. If you’re not creating in your Fishbowl, your site is stagnant.
Your relevancy in the Fishbowl is dependent on yourself and your readers. With yourself, you need to post regularly, and add value with your text. Otherwise, you are not creating life within your Fishbowl, as readers will not want to be a part of it. If you do not have readers, your text doesn’t become meaningless, but it does become less relevant. If you’re not creating in your Fishbowl, your site is stagnant.
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emilymilich
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Letter: Maturity and the Fishbowl
Maturity as a practice and a commitment is a new concept for me. Often times, we characterize in in the context of “you have it or you don’t” or in a way that it is “coming of age.” Maturity is a choice that we make with our actions. I never really thought of it this way, but it makes sense, and it also makes people accountable. Toni Morrison describing it as an “intensely hard won glory,” is the best way you can capture the fact that maturity is an action, and not just a label. Similar to maturity is the Fishbowl, in the sense that it is a commitment. Something you actively have to choose to work at. Success only comes with the discipline and the practice needed to mark achievements in this.
Maturity as a practice and a commitment is a new concept for me. Often times, we characterize in in the context of “you have it or you don’t” or in a way that it is “coming of age.” Maturity is a choice that we make with our actions. I never really thought of it this way, but it makes sense, and it also makes people accountable. Toni Morrison describing it as an “intensely hard won glory,” is the best way you can capture the fact that maturity is an action, and not just a label. Similar to maturity is the Fishbowl, in the sense that it is a commitment. Something you actively have to choose to work at. Success only comes with the discipline and the practice needed to mark achievements in this.
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emilymilich
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Letter: Voguing
My source for my posting is this link: https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/brief-history-voguing
Voguing in our Fishbowls is about the performance we give with our text. We create visuals for our readers with our symbol choice. When we vogue in our Fishbowls we are “striking a pose,” creating a snapshot of our textual performance. In business, we vogue our whole personas. You are still yourself, but a professional version. Voguing in business is your self-presentation. When we vogue, we do it to be seen. This is applicable to the Fishbowl and to business because we are doing this for ourselves, but with the consciousness of others in mind.
My source for my posting is this link: https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/brief-history-voguing
Voguing in our Fishbowls is about the performance we give with our text. We create visuals for our readers with our symbol choice. When we vogue in our Fishbowls we are “striking a pose,” creating a snapshot of our textual performance. In business, we vogue our whole personas. You are still yourself, but a professional version. Voguing in business is your self-presentation. When we vogue, we do it to be seen. This is applicable to the Fishbowl and to business because we are doing this for ourselves, but with the consciousness of others in mind.
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emilymilich
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Letter: Mutation/Motion
As I mentioned in previous letter responses, the Fishbowl is meant to change perception in order to create value. The word mutation was used n this letter, and while I typically stayed away from using this word because to me it’s very scientific sounding and gives me a cold and sterile undertone when I hear it, I can now detach it from that notion enough to realize that it’s very accurate. You could even argue that the changes happening from the Fishbowl are scientific, as they prove the theory of how deeper learning works.
As I mentioned in previous letter responses, the Fishbowl is meant to change perception in order to create value. The word mutation was used n this letter, and while I typically stayed away from using this word because to me it’s very scientific sounding and gives me a cold and sterile undertone when I hear it, I can now detach it from that notion enough to realize that it’s very accurate. You could even argue that the changes happening from the Fishbowl are scientific, as they prove the theory of how deeper learning works.
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emilymilich
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Letter: Lost in Words
Work in the Fishbowl is done to enhance ourselves through the words of others. Your learning is supposed to be immersive and experiential. When you find yourself working in your Fishbowl, you should use that time to fully be a part of the experience. It is through this practice that you learn, and in order to learn, you need to fully be immersed in this learning.
Work in the Fishbowl is done to enhance ourselves through the words of others. Your learning is supposed to be immersive and experiential. When you find yourself working in your Fishbowl, you should use that time to fully be a part of the experience. It is through this practice that you learn, and in order to learn, you need to fully be immersed in this learning.
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emilymilich
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Coming Close to the End-2 (345)
Being boxed and transformed is an interesting way to look back at this experience in the Fishbowl. When I think about it, I can’t seem to look at the ten steps as something that boxed me in, for the sheer fact that it gave you a lot of freedom of choice. Also, the freedom to talk about your experiences. It was transformative in the way that it helped me synthesize better, and to actually think about taking my work that extra step to make it better.
Being boxed and transformed is an interesting way to look back at this experience in the Fishbowl. When I think about it, I can’t seem to look at the ten steps as something that boxed me in, for the sheer fact that it gave you a lot of freedom of choice. Also, the freedom to talk about your experiences. It was transformative in the way that it helped me synthesize better, and to actually think about taking my work that extra step to make it better.
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emilymilich
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Action Learning
I’m sad to hear that the university doesn’t plan to help undergrad students make names for themselves by registering from the conference. It just makes it harder to show companies a side of you aside from experience and GPA. Being published would give us the opportunity to not only inspire others with showing what we’ve done, but to also how we did it. While this is upsetting, it doesn’t take away from all of the skills that we developed through this class. They can be applied to a greater scale and gain us even more recognition in our future careers.
I’m sad to hear that the university doesn’t plan to help undergrad students make names for themselves by registering from the conference. It just makes it harder to show companies a side of you aside from experience and GPA. Being published would give us the opportunity to not only inspire others with showing what we’ve done, but to also how we did it. While this is upsetting, it doesn’t take away from all of the skills that we developed through this class. They can be applied to a greater scale and gain us even more recognition in our future careers.
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emilymilich
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We Live in our Constructions
I agree that expressing ourselves through words and metaphors is hard to do. I think that for me, if I am writing something structured, I have a very easy time. For example, I can write anything research based very easily, but talking about my felt experiences is very difficult, because I am not used to putting my personal emotion so blatantly into writing. That is something I think I got better at this semester. I don’t think I had the skill before then. When I wrote the social meeting exercise, it was initially difficult, as I had to try and word everything in a very specific way, pick the right words that would show exactly what I was talking about, and to maintain a specific tone. That’s because I was exclusively displaying my own thoughts, no one else’s.
I agree that expressing ourselves through words and metaphors is hard to do. I think that for me, if I am writing something structured, I have a very easy time. For example, I can write anything research based very easily, but talking about my felt experiences is very difficult, because I am not used to putting my personal emotion so blatantly into writing. That is something I think I got better at this semester. I don’t think I had the skill before then. When I wrote the social meeting exercise, it was initially difficult, as I had to try and word everything in a very specific way, pick the right words that would show exactly what I was talking about, and to maintain a specific tone. That’s because I was exclusively displaying my own thoughts, no one else’s.