Letter Responses: Brooke Bolofsky

[Brookebolofsky]

Response to Making Space Letter:
Emotions, feelings, words and images are all important. Everyone will comprehend them differently. "Making space" socially in the class/ online in the fishbowl will give everyone in the course different feelings. Hopefully everyone will work together and use each other for help and guidance along the way as it should be social and everyone will understand things through a different light.

[Brookebolofsky]

10 Phrases from Youtube Video:
1. "Digital experiences are becoming more interactive as the years go on"
2. "It is getting harder to tell our own created illusions from reality"
3. "Virtual reality is a portal into any world we can create"
4. "Any idea, location or reality can be created and fully immersed into it"
5. "Although the human brain is smart and attentive to details it is easy to trick"
6. "For all we know our dreams can be limitless"
7. "Escaping our own reality"
8. "places that used to be a escape from reality have become permeant settles of sorts"
9. "It may be weird to stay in the real world"
10. "Your brain is still believing what you see is real"

[Brookebolofsky]

Response to Re-structuring text:
Restructuring equals creating value which equals understanding and comprehending. Reflecting on letters and students responses is vital to learning and the process of getting something out of this course. It is not only important to read our groups responses but the other students as well.

[Brookebolofsky]

Response to sharing what we 'see' when we read:
Sharing with others is extremely important of what we see/read. Especially in this course as this is the way we will be learning. Asking questions, answering and talking about it is vital. Connecting together as a class/group is important to make sense of what we are reading and understanding.

[Brookebolofsky]

Simulating a society: Response
The fishbowl is used to learn and teach. It is used to allow us to observe one another and what each other are thinking. It will be used to discuss topics and for one another to communicate. It is a tool for growth in this course and a way for us to gain knowledge from one another.

[Brookebolofsky]

New forms of intimacy and friendship response :

Creating friendships is extremely important. Meeting up with our teams is important to success in the classroom and outside. This social gathering is supposed to form a new friendship with one another. It will create success.

[Brookebolofsky]

Reading the others text response:

Reading from one another's fishbowl is to learn. It can help you do better on your own and understand the material better.

[Brookebolofsky]

theory of assemblages response:
Key sentences:
" I see an even greater force sweeping the planet connectivity. The global connectivity revolution in all of its forms, transportation, energy and communications. has enabled such a quantum leap in the mobility of forces, of people, of goods, of resources and of knowledge"
"We do not just build connectivity we embody it"
"connectivity is destiny"

[Brookebolofsky]

reassembling the social response:

The fishbowl is not just about writing words. It is more than that. It is about creating images that will help us understand.

[Brookebolofsky]

Why we teach each other response:

I feel as if it is important for everyone to take general education courses in college. It may not spark your interest but you will be learning about something different. Learning new things is extremely important and will help you grow. There are several courses that I took in college that I did not think I would ever take but they helped me learn a lot about something new! Teaching one another is important you learn from others and give others knowledge.

[Brookebolofsky]

Meeting within the group is about story telling. It is about learning from one another. Our papers are keeping us connected outside the classroom. As long as we work together in the classroom/fishbowl we can accomplish anything.

[Brookebolofsky]

When meeting with one another you are gaining other peoples points of view. The same thing in the fishbowl you can see others perspectives on things. It is important for learning and to get a deeper understanding.