[audio-pals] Re: Big Assignment Next Week
- From: Thomas McMahan <shadowmonstrosity@xxxxxxx>
- To: audio-pals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:26:51 -0500
The electronic version of play dough not a bad idea.
On Aug 26, 2014, at 8:19 PM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you for the encouragement as the anxiety is starting to set in. I
> figured someone would sign up with me, but they are all afraid of the first
> presentation I suppose. I probably will pull from personal experience a lot
> and my previous studies in psych since I have stepped out of the comfort
> zone this semester and took classes outside of the psychology department.
> However, a week from tomorrow night I can breathe a sigh of relief and know
> that it is behind me.
> We, Amanda and myself, stress to Little Man all the time how important
> and how great imagination is. I tell him with an imagination he can go
> anywhere and he can do anything he wants right now. I think I have pointed
> out to him how his bed can be a speed boat if he so chooses in his
> imagination. I have been in the middle of wars with him too at times in his
> imagination. I hate this time of year though as school takes a lot of time
> away from that. He sat down tonight with some crayons and paper and said
> Amanda told him the other day that artist start out by just drawing circles
> and shapes so from that I gather that he probably was drawing circles and
> various shapes on his paper who knows in his mind he may have been
> Michaelangelo painting the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
> You bring up a good point with toys basically doing it all and then you
> think about electronics. Why not instead of giving them a game to play, have
> them build their own electronic game? I don't mean with the degree that game
> developers develop games, but they started somewhere. At least if the kids
> are building their own electronic game then they can make it into what their
> imagination thinks of rather than what the game developers imagination
> thought of. I am sure there is a way to give the kids that ability. I
> imagine the reason they don't is it would take their job. I am sure there is
> a way to basically give them a blank screen and let the kids go to work with
> their imagination using the remote control. Some games are restrictive as to
> what you can do with them, but if they make it so that the mind is the limit
> when developing the game then I believe it would take steps to bring
> creativity back.
>
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 7:16 PM
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>
> And you should get all the credit too grade wise.
>
> There are some other things involved with kids too. How many toys for
> example nowadays practically play themselves? Yet at Christmas how often do
> the kids put down the actual toys after a bit and start playing with the
> boxes still? Yes it's also the encouragement of creativity at home too. It
> is more likely to survive at home, but imagination not being used also
> dampens creativity too.
>
> Get Little Man some hot wheels or matchbox cars one day, and a few odds and
> ends, boxes, a rug as an area, see what other odds and ends he can find and
> see what his mind will come up with for play. Of course it helps to have
> others to play too, my brothers and I played with stuff like that for hours.
> Batteries make great tanks, which leads to stories, which means the
> deployment of firetrucks etc. That's just one thing, half the fun is
> setting up the story to be played out, yet in the long run it probably
> wasn't really all that expensive. But that was what we would do with any
> spending money was to add to our car collection. Of course they also liked
> to put modle cars together too. I didn't do that though, but would play
> with them once put together.
>
> The fortunate thing for you is that you already live in your lab for this
> one class, family stress, and any other dynamic of class that involves the
> family. So you can come at it from a practical viewpoint to back pup what
> you say. Not all academic as the average 18 year old would be working from.
>
>
> I think in the long run you are probably going to do okay in this class.
>
> L M also now has an advantage in that he has family around who are involved
> with his actual life and care enough to both set up a framework around him
> to protect him but yet I think to also encourage him to both learn and be
> creative within that framework, so that later in life he will be able to
> both problem solve well, but also be able to come up with ideas of his own.
> There's no telling what he will wind up doing, but isn't that in itself
> quite interesting?
>
>
> Btw, we didn't actually set things on fire either. Well not inside and not
> with our matchbox cars *lol*. There was a modle battleship that got plopped
> into a good sized puddle set on fire and then shot at with a bee bee gun
> though.
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:54 AM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Well, I think you are on the right track that is for sure. I listened
>> to a Ted Talk the other day about schools destroying creativity. If
>> you can't think for yourself and be creative then what are you going
>> to do? Well, the answer is you are going to do whatever society pushes
>> you into. This is what the government wants though, pons for their
>> game. Makes you question what is really behind "Common Core" or at
>> least it leaves me questioning what the purpose is in it, it is a big
>> school movement not only here , but I believe other countries as well.
>> Are they systematically breaking down our youth to fall into place on
>> the board for perhaps the one world government? Are they using the guise
> of Common Core for something bigger?
>> Well, on to the school project. It appears that I will be doing this
>> class lecture alone. I have to think positively though if this happens
>> to be the case. If I am working alone, then that means I get to make
>> all the decisions *LOL*.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:audio-pals-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas McMahan
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 7:26 AM
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>> Subject: [audio-pals] Re: Big Assignment Next Week
>>
>> Have ideas, but a lot is political in nature. Education though is a
>> big part of it, but some other things too.
>>
>> Music now is as much put together using a computer of some sort as
>> apposed to skill. For any given project in the 40s and 50s you had
>> more hands and heads involved directly contributing to a given peace.
>> There of course is the obvious too, the standard has fallen off too,
>> but that includes the standard of what people will go purchase too, so
>> the consumer is equally to blame too.
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2014, at 5:00 AM, Daniel Crone <averagegrabbag@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>>> I cannot understand how r and b of the 1940's, 50's, and 60's could
>>> be so
>> full of art and diversity, and how so much music has gone so far down
> hill.
>> Rap, not all, but much of it, is nothing but anger and disrespect.
>>> On Aug 25, 2014, at 8:02 PM, "Josh" <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, one of the big assignments is coming up next week. I signed up
>>>> for
>> a group presentation that is to be given on Sept. 3. There is supposed
>> to be
>> 3 other members in my group, but being that it is the first group no
>> one is signing up *LOL*. My thoughts are do it and get it over with,
>> then the rest of the semester I can listen to the presentations. The
>> presentation is 20 minutes long, the longest presentation that I have
>> given since being at the university. well the longest presentation I
>> have given period since starting college. The good thing is the video
>> can be up to 5 minutes long and I found one that was 46 seconds long
>> and then I found another one that was 200 seconds long so 4 minutes
>> and 6 seconds. The videos are funny, but I had to ask Amanda about
>> both of them to make sure what the content was and one to make sure
>> that they were appropriate. Given the audience I believe they will be
>> just fine. The presentation is on parental stress and family stress
>> theory or something to that nature. One video is of penguins, a hand
>> full of baby penguins and then the momma penguin, the penguins are
>> going off and then all of a sudden the momma penguin kicks one of them
>> off into the water *LOL*. After that they all shut up for a second and
>> then started right back into it. The next one is a rap song about
>> parental stress and at one point she says I have all my "bitches and
>> hoes" with me, but when Amanda watched it, it was concluded that she
>> was being politically correct as in the video there were two dogs and
>> then when she said "hoes" it showed her with her garden hoes. So, that
>> was the extent of the videos. I just about kicked the song due to the
>> language, but then when Amanda watched it I decided to keep it. It is
>> now in my professor's inbox waiting for approval. Anyways if you all
>> will, keep me in your prayers regarding this presentation. One of the
> videos that I am going to paste at the bottom is very much so visual, but
> Bethann and the other sighted members can enjoy that one and we can all if
>> we choose to enjoy the song.
>>>>
>>>> 46 seconds: Lead into the presentation
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43dZMf2tEY
>>>>
>>>> 200 Seconds: Finish out the lecture
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbBsDbkmYtM
>>>>
>>>>
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