learning

sooo I have learned in the last 5 minutes that the applications for the town of Quispamsis are stupidly annoying.

also, support comes from the most unexpected places and motivation has to come from yourself and even if you feel like no one is pushing you or admiring what you are doing, if you know what you want to do, you will do it.

that is all

learrrning

So this past week was March break, and I read a book about gnosticism and I learned lots about all that. Much of what I learned is in my inquiry 3. I think that I have learned alot about communication too especially from the last week of Aquinas, sometimes it is frustrating when something looks so clear to you but other people fail to see it. I guess I just have to push myself harder to make myself heard. I always forget to do these blogs, they will be the death of my mark.

learrrning

So this past week.. (2 weeks) we did feasibility studies and I feel like I learned even more about research and how to narrow a topic down and how to discover if something is doable. I'm learning to distinguish between "popular" texts and academic ones. I feel confident in my researching skills and am curious as to what I will learn in the inquiry group. I think the feasibility process went really well and hopefully the inquiry leads to interesting discoveries.

so its been a while..

It has been a long time since I have posted a learning journal, mainly, because I forgot about them...oops.

This month has been the most interesting month of Aquinas thus far, I would have to say. I have learned so many things- between the three subjects. Everything that we have been doing in Religious studies I find so interesting, obviously I haven't hid my enthusiasm for Mary Magdalene. I really don't know why.. but I have always found religions and especially controversy in religions facinating. I guess since reading The Da Vinci Code I have always wanted to do my own research into it, because obviously I know there must be holes and exaggerations in the novel. I bought Holy Blood, Holy Grail but haven't read it yet and now that this has been brought up to me again (Mary) I really want to read it.

Journalism was also really good this past month, I love learning about the wars and it is really cool to see it from a journalistic perspective, one I wouldn't have noticed before. Journalism, I find, always opens up different frames for me because journalism was not something that I was particularly interested in before Aquinas, like religion and English, so I find that everyday I go to journalism I learn something new or see something a different way.

learning journal number.. i have lost count

well i have learned how to deal with a book on reserve and use the photocopy room/get a photocopy card! i feel like these are useful skills. i have also come to realise that perhaps learning about pirates will be hard because i think that all of the information in our books comes from the 1700s, history is so hard to study because its subjective, we will never know what really happened, we can only speculate. this is frustrating but i also still love pirates as a topic just a little frustrated with the research, this is to be expected.
that is all.

guys...

What I love most about rivers is:
You can't step in the same river twice
The water's always changing, always flowing
But people, I guess, can't live like that
We all must pay a price
To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing
What's around the riverbend
Waiting just around the riverbend.

THIS IS LIKE AQUINAS, WE NEED TO JUST SEE WHATS AROUND THE RIVERBEND AND IT WILL BE OK.

Should I choose the smoothest course?
Steady as the beating drum?
Should I marry Kocoum?
Is all my dreaming at an end?
Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver
Just around the riverbend?

Ignore the should I marry Kocoum thing.. but we shouldn't take the smoothest course!

Learning 8 bebe

PIRATES. pirates pirates pirates pirates.
I think this is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Thus far, I have learned a little bit about Bartholomew Roberts, and much more about how to use EBSCO and research tools, I'm trying to research about women pirates and have been at it for like 3 hours now, proving to be a challange. EBSCO WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE ME WHAT I WANT? anyway thats what I have learned for now!