[audio-pals] Re: Big Assignment Next Week
- From: "Josh" <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:45:19 -0400
Hey it just might work and then move slowly away from the TV screen and to
toys that don't require a remote control.
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[mailto:audio-pals-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas McMahan
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 11:27 PM
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Subject: [audio-pals] Re: Big Assignment Next Week
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*.
>>
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>>
>> 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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