http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb9nEZB-xCs
Borderline Personality Service Announcement
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Blog 6
!!Process update!!
Where am I? In a wonderland,no. In a carnival? Kinda. My daughters birthday was last weekend so it's safe to say I haven't done tooo much work on the Annotated bib. I do have all my sources for it, and I do have a few of them finished, but I don't have them to a level that I would want to turn them in at. It will definitely be ready before conferences.
Enjoy a fun video :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrN3Rh55uM
Where am I? In a wonderland,no. In a carnival? Kinda. My daughters birthday was last weekend so it's safe to say I haven't done tooo much work on the Annotated bib. I do have all my sources for it, and I do have a few of them finished, but I don't have them to a level that I would want to turn them in at. It will definitely be ready before conferences.
Enjoy a fun video :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrN3Rh55uM
Blog 5
I am leaning towards the topic of Borderline Personality Disorder. I really like this topic, and depending on where I go to grad school I am going to need a backup topic to do research on. I cant do work on mental wellness in LGBT youth at St. Francis or a school like that. The only problem I am running into is there is not a ton of different resources out there. All the papers that are published and most of the Randomized Controlled Trials for treatment is all for the treatment option of Dialectal Behavior Theory. So I have no Idea what to write my paper on.
Blog 4
Questions Questions Questions
What questions do I have so far, well, My main question is how do I take this class and push myself and not fail. I am already stressing about the topics that I have chosen for my I-searches. I feel like they are all really interesting topics, but I feel like none of them will be easy to find information on. I have this thing where I like choose the most terrible topics to try and research and I really like them so I still stick with it and it screws me in the end.
What questions do I have so far, well, My main question is how do I take this class and push myself and not fail. I am already stressing about the topics that I have chosen for my I-searches. I feel like they are all really interesting topics, but I feel like none of them will be easy to find information on. I have this thing where I like choose the most terrible topics to try and research and I really like them so I still stick with it and it screws me in the end.
Blog 3
Video Response
Well my initial thought to this video is that it is very clever. It also seems to mirror my disdain for public education. I feel that giving students loads of books, and asking them to memorize facts and not really learn why we learn things is exactly why I became a montessori teacher. I think that learning in an organic home environment is the best for children. Also putting education in their hands and giving them the responsibility to meet their goals gives them a sense of accomplishment and allows them to feel good about their education.
Blog 2
Click Click
So I set off to take the pictures for this project, and I just couldn't get a feel for it. I took a series of pictures of a house being built next to my moms and then I trashed them because I didn't think they were good enough. Then I was going to take the series at a bar I frequent, but it didn't seem to fit the assignment. So I settled on taking the series of my parents land. They have a few acres and I felt that it was big enough to use. I felt that Ballenger in his essay conveyed a sense of not just narrowing but downsizing and uniqueness. For this reason I choose to start the series with a picture of my parents house and narrow it down to the world through the eyes of a butterfly I found.
So I set off to take the pictures for this project, and I just couldn't get a feel for it. I took a series of pictures of a house being built next to my moms and then I trashed them because I didn't think they were good enough. Then I was going to take the series at a bar I frequent, but it didn't seem to fit the assignment. So I settled on taking the series of my parents land. They have a few acres and I felt that it was big enough to use. I felt that Ballenger in his essay conveyed a sense of not just narrowing but downsizing and uniqueness. For this reason I choose to start the series with a picture of my parents house and narrow it down to the world through the eyes of a butterfly I found.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Blog 1
The Big 5
Gay Marriage
Same Sex adoption
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Mental wellness in transgender teens
Montessori education VS. Public education
Both gay marriage and same sex adoption interest me because I am an activist in the gay community and I would like to become more familiar with topics I am fighting for. I would want to focus on a state and local level and see where Indiana stands on these issues. I feel that same sex adoption might be easier to find information on, but it would be really interesting to research what is going on with gay marriage on a state wide and national level. I feel like the LGBT community is about to make a major break through in the next few years is civil equality and it would be great to see where we are now. I went to the resource center on campus and got some literature on LGBT rights in the united states, and goggled gay marriage. I think that same sex adoption will be more beneficial than gay marriage because in Indiana we recognize same sex adoption.
BPD is something that I have been interested in for a very long time. As a teen I was wrongly diagnosed with it, and it has made me curious towards the subject sense then. This summer after some time in studying psychology my mom gave me a book called the Buddah and the borderline. It is an amazing book about a woman named Kiera who has BPD and her struggles with it. The book has made me want to do more research.
Mental Wellness in Transgender teens is a subject that I did some research on this summer while in a communications class. This subject is something that I am very passionate about. It brings together my love for psychology and LGBT culture. It is also a very personal subject for me as I had a very close friend who was transgender who killed herself not to long ago. When I get my doctorate I want to do pro bono work with homeless transgender youth, who have a very high rate of diagnosis. I looked this up in EBSCO host and found some things on it. I think that this is a topic I want to peruse for one of my I-search papers.
Montessori education is something that I am very familiar with because I teach at a montessori school. I also am a parent of a montessori child. I also was in line to get my teaching degree in a public school system. So a paper on Public Vs. Montessori seems to make sense. I did some research on this in EBSCO host and I really couldn’t find anything on it. There seems to be books and a lot of person al statements from parents and other teachers, but not a lot of real concrete evidence to support that montessori is better than Public education.
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