Showing posts with label #30. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #30. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Remain
Even though Internet usage is increasing dramatically, TV usage remains the same. Internet became the most dominant medium of media. The Internet is affecting everything. It would be interesting to see how the Internet will change in 10 years.
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Monday, 16 May 2011
Pilates World Domination !!

I laugh at men who say that pilates is for chicks ! Good luck that is all i have to say. Truth is close mindedness is their loss. This is such an excellent work out and i really recommend both men and women to try it. What i life most about pilates is the psychological component behind it. It truly is one of those "mind over matter" scenarios. The amount of discipline one needs to be able to advance their technique is pretty outstanding. It is a work out that you actually see results from. I hate to break it to you people, but those "toning" and "spot focusing" workout are all gimmicks. The body does not work that way! Now that summer is coming, incorporating pilates with a cardio routine 2-3 times a week will have that body looking "HAWTTT" as we like to say :)
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Thursday, 7 April 2011
clickers
In the internship that I am doing right now, we have these weekly seminars on Mondays. Every week, a different group is instructed to lead the class discussion. We can pick any topic that we want to. Usually, groups pick topics that relate to secondary education in some manner. Last week, my group decided to change this up a bit. We decided to lead a discussion on clickers.
We weren't really sure how this would go with everyone. It turned out that the discussion that we had that week was one of the best ones. This was mainly because people were so opinionated about clickers so we were not short of material. I used clickers in a lot of my classes and was relatively indifferent to them. But some of the students in my class went off about how they hate them. It was really surprising to me.
The main complaint that people gave when it came to clickers was the fact that it was kind of forcing students to learn. Clickers motivate people to go to class and answer questions mainly because the teacher uses them to grade you. A few students argued that this kind of takes away from the college atmosphere; college is supposed to be a student motivated process where the student is mature enough to want to learn the material. Clickers somewhat take that away. Additionally, there is the occasional practice of taking someone elses clicker to class. That definitely pisses some people off. All in all, we came to the conclusion that students in general don't like clickers even though some professors may argue that they "stimulate classroom participation and encourage student collaboration." Most people agree that that was just a lot of bs.
We weren't really sure how this would go with everyone. It turned out that the discussion that we had that week was one of the best ones. This was mainly because people were so opinionated about clickers so we were not short of material. I used clickers in a lot of my classes and was relatively indifferent to them. But some of the students in my class went off about how they hate them. It was really surprising to me.
The main complaint that people gave when it came to clickers was the fact that it was kind of forcing students to learn. Clickers motivate people to go to class and answer questions mainly because the teacher uses them to grade you. A few students argued that this kind of takes away from the college atmosphere; college is supposed to be a student motivated process where the student is mature enough to want to learn the material. Clickers somewhat take that away. Additionally, there is the occasional practice of taking someone elses clicker to class. That definitely pisses some people off. All in all, we came to the conclusion that students in general don't like clickers even though some professors may argue that they "stimulate classroom participation and encourage student collaboration." Most people agree that that was just a lot of bs.
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