I have chosen to nominate Haleigh Miller
for best Resident Advisor. I have chosen Haleigh because of all the hard work
that you can see on a day to day basis. Because she contributes so much to our team and the
amount she does for her peers. She shows her dedication in this job by
being a full time student studying pharmacy. This major requires her to put an
extreme amount of time into her already busy life for school work. This major
also requires her to have as close as possible to a 4.0 grade point average. Haleigh is one of these few that
hold a 4.0 grade point average; which is impressive as itself. But the
amount of time she spends on her floor studying is only matched by the amount
of work she puts into her floors community and her floor itself. She spends
most if not all of her spare time on her floor building the community that
makes up the fifth floor of Stephenson South at Washington State University
Pullman. She has many
community building Bulletin boards and Programs where her floor and herself get
together and decorate the floor; and they did a program to decorate for
Halloween, and that was a hit and to top it off even more; she had a program
for Christmas Decorating and her floor put every floor in the Stephenson
Complex to shame. The entire floor got together and wrapped doors in
wrapping paper and they all decorated the halls with snowflakes and Snowmen.
They also decorated the lounge with 3 Christmas trees and Christmas lights so
that anyone one the floor studying could have some holiday cheers. Nor does she have one of the more
challenging majors here at WSU but she makes room in her already insane
schedule for her floor and her staff the same. She doesn’t just share
holiday cheer but also shares that she knows when one of the staff members are
hurt. She not too long ago
gave me a gift bag for when I was feeling down after an exam, though she gave
me this handmade gift bag that had pieces of candy and a feel better card.
She doesn’t know it but this little act of caring made me feel extremely happy
that she knew and she actually cared about me. She hasn’t started this just
this year either but she started this way of being an RA last year when I was a
freshman. She came onto our floor 2nd semester and was great! She brought together that floor
and made everything work how it should and made everyone happy to be there but
because she has brought that skill to this year with her floor and extended it
to her staff. She is an exceptional Resident Advisor and deserves
recognition for being so.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Blog #6
The Fickle Mind of a Gamer
This
has been a fated argument throughout the entirety of the game World of
Warcraft’s reign in the video game world. The argument is one that is both
trivial and extremely important to how the game is played. This argument is of
which damage per second, also known as DPS, specialization should I go on my
druid. Should I become a stealthy cat that rips open its foes with bleeds and
fast paced action? Or
should I become a huge chicken bird thing that brings both the power of the sun
and the moon down on its foes with devastating power? Both of these sound so fun you say
and that each of these specific specializations sound like they have such a
different play style that both parties should understand that they will in some
way be equal, yet they have their own strengths and weaknesses.
However there are some that disagree completely that each of the
specializations are equal and believe that one or the other is hands down the
best specialization period for any given time while choosing the role as DPS.
In
this skit that will not be performed by me or anyone I will direct they will
come into the conversation with each other stating which form they prefer as a
Druid whether it be Cat form or Boomkin Form. Each of these people will describe why they think their
form is superior briefly; and then go about to argue with the other about some
of the more trivial mechanics of the class’s specialization trees. The
next person to come into the skit will be the neutral party that disagrees with
both parties and states that there is no set best class specialization but
rather one that works better for each individual fight and provides examples of
his/her thoughts in a neutral way that both parties could somewhat agree with.
Sorry this was late, my internet was down briefly this morning.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Blog #5
School Slogan and You
There
are many opinions on the different views of Go Cougs. HAVING A NON-OFFICIAL SLOGAN DOESN’T GIVE OUR SCHOOL A GREAT
PUBLISITY, AND THAT BEING SAID OPINIONS ARE NUMEROUS AND VARRY IN THE EYES OF
DIFFERENT COUGS. Last week we looked at a typical dialog a mother and
son could have over the phone discussing the slogan. According to a blog site
The Brothers of Judea what makes an effective slogan is that it is short and to
the point. It is something that people can chant and which can fit easily on a
t-shirt. After this explanation I can easily say that I personally am against
the Go Cougs slogan that WSU has developed over the years. This slogan doesn’t
do our university justice and causes negative light to be spread on the school
that is already seen as a party school.
The way I
most commonly disagree with the slogan is that the slogan Go Cougs is more of a
greeting than anything else. As was said in the interview with Julia Jans that
was done last week. Go Cougs is a greeting at the point of which it’s being
used on campus because it has no definition and doesn’t tell us anything about
the people in our community. This statement causes people to think of what it
means rather than providing an acknowledge meaning to the slogan. This is
very frustrating because people say that it’s building us into a community for
which it really isn’t causing any more connection than the current slogan. IT’S FRUSTRATING BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY THAT THE SLOGAN IS
BUILDING US INTO A COMMUNITY FOR WHICH IT REALLY ISN’T CAUSING ANY MORE CONNECTION
THAN THE CURRENT SLOGAN, MY MOM WHO I INTERVIEWED ALSO QUOTED THAT THE SLOGAN DIDN’T
O WHAT WE WANTED IT TO DO OR SHOW FOR OUR UNIVERSITY.
Another
thing is that the Go Cougs slogan is over used and many people don’t understand
this slogan enough to use it properly. THE MAIN
ISSUE WOULD HAVE TO BE THAT THE GO COUG SLOGAN IS OVER USED AND MANY PEOPLE DON’T
UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THE SLOGAN TO USE IT PROPERLY. The slogan is
used to at sports activities like football games where the crowd will yell GO
and then butch will point to the adult side which will respond COUGS or vice
versa. This use of Go Cougs is totally fine because the connection is clear of
what is the meaning which is cheering for our team, and will cause the connection
we want. However some students choose to use Go Cougs in a negative light. An
example of this negative light would be the students WHOM choose to partake in
the activities on game weekends or any weekend in that sense that usually
happens out on Greek row, in residence halls, Or in apartment land. These
activities include but aren’t limited to: Drinking, Party hoping, Blacking out and
Browning out, Public escapades, Smoking, etc. These students that partake in
the listed activities commonly tell each other Go Cougs, which in this sense
means, and I’m loosely paraphrasing here, “I’m so proud of you for blacking
out” or “I’m so drunk this is awesome”. These uses are what the public eye sees
the most coming from WSU. This is a small part of the life here on the WSU
Pullman campus the Go Cougs is being seen this way. THIS SLOGAN IS A PART OF LIFE HERE ON THE WSU PULLMAN CAMPUS, BUT THE
SLOGAN IS BEING SEEN IN A NEGITIVE LIGHT FROM THE PUBLIC.
The last
issue is that if this slogan is really building a community here at WSU, there
still aren’t any values given in this quote. Where as you can look at our real
slogan which is World class face to face, which has values and states that all
the students at WSU value a face to face interaction while also depicting
themselves in the best light or in a world class view. The problem about Go
Cougs is that there isn’t any value to it unless you’re an “insider” or
attending WSU. That this is more of an internal slogan of WSU rather than an
external slogan that we should be using there for Go Cougs isn’t the right
slogan for us.
In
conclusion this is all my opinion and brief information taken from an outside
force WHO also agreed that the slogan was stupid. ALL
OF THIS BEING SAID EVERYTHING IS MY OWN OPINION AND I KNOW THE INFORMAITION IS
BRIEF AND TAKEN FROM AN OUTSIDE SOURCE WHO ALSO AGREEED WITH MY OWN STANDPOINT,
BECAUSE THE SOURCE WAS MY MOM, AND GRANDMOM. So I’m sure I sound a
little bias. The main issue I have with the slogan is that it doesn’t provide
anything back to the community other than negative light because of the way
that students at the institution use the slogan. Also that there is no sense of
community that go with this other than the fact that when you see another
Cougar out on the adventures they all say Go Cougs which just proves that its
more inclusive then exclusive of a slogan. This brings me to more of my
conclusion that it’s not the slogan for WSU; it has no meaning and isn’t used
properly to make it even acceptable as a school slogan.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Dora #1
Dora
Learns to Write
The
questions that have been brought up are; “What does the teacher do to help Dora
learn how to correctly punctuate the end of sentence”, “What doesn't the
teacher do”, and “Why does it take so long for Dora to apply the concept of
sentence-end-marking”? So how do we really answer these questions without being
there in the action ourselves? We work with what we know.
What we do know
is that the teacher does many things for all of her students to help them learn
the punctuation problem. One way that the teacher helps Dora and her classmates
learn new things is through the small group work that she provides before the
lesson where the kids get to experiment with their ideas and tell each other
what they think is correct and that allows the children to create new material
and use their creativity while peers are cheering them on. This way of helping
is very positive to all the kids in the group and allows them to grow in the
fashion of learning how to create connections to concepts. The teacher also helps Dora’s class learn by
providing the definition of the punctuation at the end of the group meeting
time. She makes sure that they have the opportunity to learn in that fashion of
a small group with minor supervision, but also provides the actual concept and
provides the reason why that is so. Then later in the passage we read the
Teacher does something even more for Dora’s writing. She tells Dora to read out
loud how the passage she wrote should sound, similar to a story book. By doing
so the teacher is creating connections for Dora that she didn't see before.
Instead of regurgitating what the rule is Dora now understands that it sounds
wrong and the whole point of the punctuation is so that others can understand
your thoughts in a fluid sweep of the page, rather than a cut up story with
periods between random words.
According to the
passage we read about Dora learning to write, the teacher does many things to
help. But she also doesn't do some things very well. She doesn't keep the small
groups in check and keep them corrected all the time. What she doesn't do is
provide negative feedback to the children that are doing it wrong, but she does
help them in a different way. The teacher doesn't do any calling out on those
that are wrong and she doesn't discriminate against those that understand and
those that don’t. This teacher also doesn't reach all the kids the same with
the different learning styles. Her method isn't great for some learners that
only need definitions and memorize things that way but rather for those that
are thinkers and that do their own thing. This teacher promotes creativity
instead of giving the kids the definition straight out of the book and over
loading their brains with information.
All in all I
believe the teacher did a great job teaching her class and provided a diverse
learning environment, but she didn't really get all the concepts hard in some
of the students. Dora took a while to learn and apply the concepts of
punctuation of the period or sentence-end-marking. I believe it took her so
long because she wasn't ready for the different learning styles that the
teacher provided and because the different learning style was more group
oriented so she got confused because her peers would say “Yeah that sounds
right”, when it was actually wrong. But WHOSE
fault is that other than the teachers you would ask? I think that the parents
and previous teachers are to blame as well. Without the guidance of THEIRS the
student will more likely be left behind.
So in conclusion
the teacher did a great job but didn't reach out to those kids with different
learning styles as well, but created a very creative learning classroom where
the kids could experiment with the concepts and definitions before they were
told what they really meant. That being said I believe how she taught the class
was well suited for the children there and she didn't do anything wrong. She
taught them the basics while also teaching them how to open their minds and
learn on their own which is something many high school students don’t
understand how to do. Now if you were in this situation you would believe the
failure of the student was YOURS alone to bear but I would like to say that
teaching is a team effort and this teacher did everything she could with what
her teammate the kindergarten teacher had to bring to the plate.
[I realized that i don't really use apostrophes other than for contractions so i actually read through the paper and didn't see any.]
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