class notes 10/27/11

Onward and Upward
Dissilluisonment by the idea of making an impact
- easy to think that you are not making a difference
- project baby warmth
  donating, or buying a low cost baby incubators making a $20,000 instrument, $25
  not exactly knowing where to go with the project, but eventually narrowing in on their goal.
Taking an untouchable goal, and making it possible
Social good is building trust, cultivating happiness, building education and a community
 this can be both aligning and profitable

JP Morgan
Facebook poll for donating to charity
3 organizations- 2 of which was dealing with llegalization of marijuana
Starting out in a class and the potential to grow to somethign as big and popular a facebook

 Fear or Failure may hold you back but can also beused to spark your work ethic.
Simple things such as posting a status,tweet, or youtube could have been held back due to fear of judgement

Free write

        Things like posting a status, or tweeting seem very natural to some people. Natural to the point that they are willing to put any thought, idea, or support of a topic out there. There are alot of people that have thought twice about making their support or oppinion of a subject public. Personally, I do refrain from posting certain thoughts or idea due to the fear of judgement. Although when it comes to support of a cause, I do not think twice. As long as the cause I am supporting is a serious matter, and needs awareness I will be more than happy to post a facebook status, or like a group.


Goals are not impossible but to complete them you must set micro goals to gain that macro goal.
For example a 5 page paper on Romeo and Juliet
Micro goals
read play
Write a page a night
Proof read
Hand in
this equals out to the Macro goal of getting the paper done


Use media, small acts create big change.
anticapation of reward of the reward that gets the job done

class notes 10/25/11-free write-

Inspiration and System theories

Inspiration- from the latin term spirare meaning to breathe, to give life to.

    As I was little I remember thinking to myself, I just want to grow up, I want to be older. What sparked these thoughts was the fact that I was looking up to two people in my life; my older siblings. My brother Joe who is 7 years older than me, and sister Maura who is 2 years older than me. As I have grown up over the years they both have played a huge part in my life.  These two people have impacted the people I hang out with, how I conduct myself, and my life decisions. I have avoided, and gained many things from their expierences. Not only their expiernces, but their advice. It  was a proven fact that through out highschool there was a 100% chance that I would listen to my siblings over my parents. As I sit here today I am thankful for the fact that they were welcoming with taking me under their wing.


What happens to inspiration when you don't share it?
Does not go any where, doesn't change anything


open source-public resources,free
 - others can contribute to it
- youtube,firefox, wikipedia


Floerence Nightingale- Stake holders= The memebrs of the Military of that refused her help. Went back to England to gain support. The patients that have their lives invested in her treatment.


homework

Draw a diagram in a flow chart for how I would like to second half of the sesmester to go.

BSG 33

Tara Crisafulli

FYSM

Battle Star Galactic

33

            President Laura is the head of the ship;The president of a nation that is now on the run. Under these circumstances she does not exact feel comfortable in her environment, leading her to doubt her decisions. The two characters that seem to really reassure her are Dr. Baltar, and the Admiral. This is solely due to Dr. Baltar's conscious which is lead by number six, and Admirals' need to make the President still feel as though she is in charge.

             Number six can actually represent/ fore shadow the actions of the ships. She at one point mentions something to the doctor about wanting to have kids with her. She then goes on to explain that reproduction is apart of gods' plan. Not too long after she says this the president finds out that they lost a ship,dropping the population by a large amount. Later on in the episode she finds out that, during a jump a mother gave birth to a baby. This could show that they are ultimately following the right plan.

BSG water

Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii was one of many members, of what we would consider the air force. With in this episode she is a very dominate character. Although boomer seems to encounter some issues, she wakes up drenched not remembering how she got there or why there was a bomb in her bag. That bomb was one of many that missing from the equitment room. It was as if she had been sleep walking, or drugged. Boomer continues to strugle with this through out the episode. This could actually relate to the story of Adam and Eve. She may have exprienced something that she shouldnt have, causing her to black out the memory of it? Or the possibity that someone rulling her consious, something the along the lines of number six.

10/20/11 class notes

45 year old love story
-higher education almost destroyed him
-squash champion
- went  on a service learning project- experienced starvation, death, and poverty
- now wants to help the cause, giving up all of his opportunities
-letting down the family by giving this up
- ended up learning more with in this experience
-they assumed something should be wrong due to the fact that he chose this village
- would like to start a college only for the poor- education is the key to moving up out of poverty
- barefoot college- redefined professionalism
   - must have a defined set of skills
   - knowledge and skills you have must be universal
   - life style of Ghandi, no written contracts, no more than $100 a month, you sleep on the floor
   - doesnt matter if you fail
    - teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher
    -1986 was the first built college 1.50 a square foot
    - built by uneducated contractors
    - no hope for the soil too rocky dry, the village man said other wise
    - women water proofed
     - purely solar  powered, with 8 years of primary schooling
     - food is solar cooked- the women created a an elaborate solar cooker, completely uneducation
   - collecting water from the roof,
   -60% of kids have to work during the day keeping them from their education= created a night school
   - teaching things to help them survive in the real world
   - election every 4 years, prime minister 12 years old... voted by 4-6 years old
  -  they show pride in what they have instead of harping on what they don't have.



here vs. there

expected to go to college where as they are not.
experienceing what they don't have.
passing on experiences to others, not exactly defined as a traditional perfessional
school built around kids, not kids forming to the school

free write

   They call it hell week; mid terms. Although I have not had the pleasure of having to take a mid term test, I still have a large amount of work due this week. It is very stressfull and I find my self putting off doing work, but in the end it doesnt matter as long as it gets done the right way. Currently I am not so worried about my mid term grades. I find my self worrying more about the stress of keeping up with these grades through out the year.

class notes 10/20/11 wing 4

Take action..

 Alexis's lemonade stand- helping to raise money for childhood cancer. made over $2,000. over all goal was 1 million. when she got to 7,000 volvo donated the rest. Used twitter, and manipulated the time frame for beter and long ads. Less is more, the youtube.. 5k run taped.. found out the time that people stopped watching, shortened video to that time

A call to action
 how, and what will get people to help
must be highly focused.
must be diverse


what to ask for
right type of question- degree of separation, and emotional intensity
   - social separation  has alot to do with this( brad pit vs. a family member or friend)
  - Ask for time- as for time to help the cause, and not the money.  People are more interested  when asking for time.
- differentiate between first and second asks- take small steps towards the future

Make it easy
- must fix the smaller things to get to the bigger and better things.
- must make goals easy to get involved

make it fun
- takes away from the seriousness of the topic
- fun to play games, and get lemonade... seeing past the actually goal?

Tailor
- they have an adavantage over others, will help them to be motivated to help the cause.
Be open
-others can add too, take from, and alter the cause
- Everyone.com fun cost free ways to contribute to charity



work sheet
1. Set up a program with a local company were they would match every result, and donate a product of theirs'. For example, for every basketball game played, facebook status set, or  lemonade bought, target would donate a set of sheets.
2. Make it a contest between classes, or groups.
3.
4.Create a survey, and take polls for ideas that people would like to take part in.