The Fishbowl

9/11:
"Making Space"

I believe feelings, images, and words are all very important pieces of our society. It is interesting how you say the images we see on the screen are determined by the decisions we make. I agree but never really thought of it like that.

10 Phrases from the video:

1. Digital Experiences are becoming more and more interactive as the years go on, we are being able to stimulate more and more senses
2. What happens if once we go in we don’t want to go back
3. First person experience
4. A portal into any world that we can create
5. Allow us to become a part of the world we make
6. Each one of your eyes sees the world in a different way
7. If you were to wake up in this VR world would you be able to tell that you aren’t in a dream
8. The best and most realistic virtual worlds will likely be ones that can mimic how our brains function while we’re dreaming
9. For all we know our dreams can be limitless
10. This would be a world that we aren’t limited by our physical bodies, some would say they’re creating their destiny, others would say its escaping reality.

Don Schon: The Reflective Practitioner
• Was a philosopher
• Developed the concept of reflective practice and contributed to the theory of organizational learning
• Reflective practitioner: challenged practitioners to re consider the role of technical knowledge vs. artistry inn developing professional excellence.
• This mainly affected study of teacher education, architectural design, and half and social care

Thank you! I am very excited for this course, it seems a lot different than any other classes I have taken and I am interested to see where this course takes me.

This letter was interesting because it sort of went through the thoughts most students are probably thinking while reading your letters. For example "what is the opening sentence". This is always something I put so much thought into because I sometimes have a hard time with where to start. Also while reading your letters I do raise the question of what your words mean.

Thank you for clarifying this. I was at first also confused but after reading both these email and seeing the six different topics, everything made much more sense. I appreciate you forwarding us the emails so all of us are able to better understand and be helped from our classmates questions.

9/17

It is nice to use new platforms for school work. Since being a student at this university up until this semester I had only used Sakai and Top hat and this year I have been introduced to all new sites that my work needs to be completed on. I like having our work in the fishbowl instead of Sakai because it gives us something different to look at and learn how to use.

9/18:

I feel like reading others text and posts is definitely beneficial. Everyone writes and interprets things differently so its interesting to see the way others think. I hope other class members find my work beneficial as well.

9/19:

I feel having a social meeting is very necessary and helpful. In the day and age we live in, so much communicating is done over phones and computers. I feel so much is lost when communicating these ways in comparison to communicating in person. Personally, I feel communicating in person is much more beneficial and there is so much more to learn and understand about someone when speaking in person rather than texting or using social media.

9/20:

Now that I have grasped the understanding of the fishbowl I watched the given tedtalks. They were very informative and informational. The question given "Do we live in a borderless world" was something very interesting to think about. I always love watching Tedtalks because they give so much information in a very grasping way.

9/20:

I think this particular letter was written in the way of a short poem. It was very informative and straight to the point. Also the poem by Rabindranath Tagore was very interesting.

9/23

This letter was interesting to read. I never knew Professors felt this way when teaching a general education course. After reading the explanation, it makes complete sense why professors would feel this way. Most of the time, professors are teaching a course they specialize in to students that are majoring in that topic. Doing that must be a completely different dynamic in the classroom than teaching a broad variety of students about a general topic that is not necessarily the topic the professor specializes in.

On the other hand, one quote that really stood out to me was "If I do my job right, I learn as much as the students do." As a professor and of course a student, there is always room to grow and teaching and learning something out of your usually comfort zone is the best place to grow.