Falling for the Slackline

Sadly I couldn't figure out how to get in HD. I hate not working with what I'm used to :P The other people are Gene's friends. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

Still trying to get overdubs down. The rhythm was pretty solid, but the melody is sporadic in some entrances. Need to work on that more, but I hope you enjoy it! Merry Christmas! :D

Technical Difficulties

So apparently the program on Gene's computer can't read my camera's files. Therefore, I can't edit my footage. Sadness. I may have to record something on YouTube's recording thingy but when I tried the microphone that Gene had, there was a ton of feedback. I'll have to figure something out. :I

~Clover

The Day After the LAN

By the way, I know you have to wait for the video to load, but you can change the quality down to 360 instead of watching it at 720. It'll load much faster that way :)

MNHLA Mockumentary

Punishment video today, regular video tomorrow. :)

Betty Botter Bought Some Nonbitter Better Butter

Seventy seven benevolent elephants.

A noisy noise annoys an oyster but a noisier noise annoys and oyster more.

I am a pleasant mother pheasant plucker. I pleasantly pluck pleasant mother pheasants. I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker who ever plucked mother pheasants.

Betty Botter bought some butter
but she said this butter's bitter
if I put it in my batter
it will make my batter bitter
but a bit of better butter
will make my batter better
so she bought some better butter
better than the bitter butter
and she put it in her batter
and her batter was not bitter
so twas Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter

Also, Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss is amazing and very difficult to read. :P

Another Flat Tire

Random Acts of Kindness

Exercise and Diet Plan

Car Ride to LA

All of this footage was shot with Gene's GoPro camera. Suuuuch a nice wide-angle camera.

Webcam Filler

LYD - Play the Clarinet

Not Much to Say

End of the Semestar Blues

A Night with Bill Nye

Can't Find My Camera...

I seem to have misplaced my camera so I'm going to talk about Sociocultural through text! Right then.

Sociocultural has a couple tenets that is very unique to only sociocultural theory:

• Adults use formal and informal interaction to show students how their culture interprets and responds to the world.
• Complex mental processes begin as social activities which then is later used independently.
• Children can perform more challenging tasks with assistance.

The first bullet is key because as the theory's name suggests, the theory takes into account the student's cultural background and the student will learn through that culture.

Now, before I go on, there is something about culture that I need to explain. There are two ways to look at culture: ethnic culture and the culture of an environment. For example, I have my Korean culture and the culture that is in my house when I was a kid such as being polite to elders, taking off shoes at the door and always doing homework. Someone could argue that the "house culture" can be seen as inherent in my Korean background, but the same could be applied to the culture of a classroom. You can always have students line up at the door, be courteous to others, etc. In that sense adults use formal (teaching) and informal (modeling) to convey what the culture in a particular setting is like and how the world responds by continuing to have those interactions with other adults or students.

The second bullet is something that promotes the idea of play with other students/peers or by themselves. A great example of this is when little kids play house. By playing with dolls and assigning each doll a role, the child is exhibiting the roles of the adults in the house and further defining it in their own way. When the child has the "father" doll sit at the head of the table, they are showing the culture that he or she has observed and learned within her own household. So, through play, the child is able to define and manifest what he or she knows about the world through a social activity such as play. Think of it this way, if you saw your students (I think they were kids right?) playing outside and you see them trying to not fall off a cliff or saying something is steep, then you'd know that they understood your concepts through their play.

The last bullet about students being able to accomplish challenging tasks through assistance is this idea called "scaffolding." Essentially when a student doesn't understand a concept, you help them get to the answer by themselves. For example, (and this is a very simple example) let's say a student is having trouble figuring out how to do multiplication. A teacher would pull upon the student's prior knowledge and scaffold how to solve the problem. If in a math class a student is having trouble coming up with a soultion to a word problem, the teacher would ask specific leading questions to help the student come to the answer. The teacher isn't just giving hints on how to solve it, but must go through the proper steps on how to solve it without solving it for the student.

Lets say the problem is something like if there is a barrel of apples and they cost $2 per apple, how much would it be to buy two? the interaction would go something like this.

T: How much is one apple?
S: Two dollars.
T: So how much would two apples be?
S: I don't know.
T: Well, give me two dollars for the first apple. There, now you gave me two dollars but you forgot that you need to buy another one for your mom and you need to buy one more. How much would you give me for one more apple?
S: Two dollars.
T: Right. Now how many dollars did you give me all together.
S: Four.
T: Right!

You don't simply just say, "Do two times two." You help them understand why and how in a real-life situation how you'd solve the problem. Scaffolding is something that good teachers do inherently without know what they're doing. But for scaffolding to work well, the questions asked must have a purpose and be objective. It's difficult to do sometimes and this is only in an ideal situation. I had a student who was just too impatient when I tried to scaffold how to read/count rhythms last week and it was just frustrating.

Anyway! That's Sociocultural theory. I don't think I did too great of a job going over the thing thoroughly, but that's the jist of it. :)

I'll try to find my camera ASAP so I don't have to type out these long posts of text.

I love you and I get to see you in a week! How exciting!

~~~

Oh! I almost forgot the most important aspect of Sociocultural theory: Zone of Proximal Development. It was thought up by a Russian guy named Lev Vygotsky who did a lot of work in children psychology. ZPD is essentially giving a student challenging enough work for them to grow cognitively, but not give them work that's impossible because they won't learn. On the flip side, if you give students too easy of a task, then they won't learn at all because, well, it's too easy. ZPD is a hard thing to do because you need to know your students really well enough to challenge them without getting them to feel like its impossible. Its why scaffolding is very important because if the task does seem impossible but you know they can do it (due to their prior knowledge of what they know) you can help them accomplish the "impossible" task!

What Do I Know About Shane?

Cognitive and Social Cognitive

I seriously need to plan better when doing these videos. Both in the content and planning ahead for editing and uploading.

Behavioral Theory

Its late, I know, but I blame the interwebs. ;3 If you want to give me a punishment you can.

Who Am I?

A Job Already?

Letters to Myself

LYD - Draw Something

Preliminary sketch:


First draft (the monster came out better in this one):


The main drawing:

A Day in the Life of Shane

The Bike Ride

Boring Day is Boring

CK - The Test

That morn I thought the task seemed trite,
To find and capture a fire sprite.
So off I went into the Blasted Woods
Toward where the giant oak tree stood.

Crackle-crick the burnt wood went
My feet releasing that charcoal scent
As I carefully stepped toward the black charred tree
I remembered what my master said to me.

Move forward with your blade in hand
Don't back down in that no man's land.
You have until the night's twilight
Can you be a Clover Knight?

The tiny fairies flickered about
Through the wreckage they went in and out,
I had to capture only one,
But had no idea how it'd be done.

I chased a few but to no avail,
I could not give up, I could not fail.
And all of a sudden something scared the fae
And in my head I heard my master say

Move froward with your courage in mind
and to the problem the solution you'll find.
What you'll encounter will be a nasty sight
Will you survive to be a Clover Knight?

The beast reared back its ugly head,
So frightful it would even turn the dead
After a roar, a glare it shot,
My sweat ran cold, I stuck to my spot.

I regained control, just in time,
To avoid the hit that would've broke my spine.
I was in over my head from what I could tell,
But then I heard my master's yell

Move forward with a tempered soul
Cut the beast, don't leave it whole
All you need is a piece of husk
And a Clover Knight you'll be this dusk.

An accurate swing hit it's mark,
Making the creature yelp and bark.
With one hit the creature backed down,
Leaving a chunk of itself on the ground.

My master walked over, crickle-crack
And with great force clapped my back,
I caught my breath, I hardly waited
Before he congratulated me and stated,

Facing the danger was your real test,
The skills you showed were the absolute best.
You came out on top in this mortal fight,
So now I invite you to be a Clover Knight.

Visiting Fairgrove Academy

I Failed...

D'oh! I forgot to do a video because I didn't realize it was Tuesday. Whoops! So, since I got this vlogging idea from the Brotherhood 2.0 series, I'm gonna follow suit in what they did when they missed a video: a punishment.

I'll have a video up tomorrow, but in the mean time (Is that one word or two words? If its two, does it mean mean as average, so "in the average amount of time"?) if you so wish, recommend a "punishment" down in the comments.

~Clover

PS: Punishment doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. A "punishment" could be giving a bum some money, doing a charitable act, going to church event. Just something I have to do to make up for having missed a video. It'll keep me in line :P

Korea Galleria

The video file isn't the right resolution again so no HD this time =/



Then in HD!

Conducting the Middle School

For some reason the video quality isn't as good as the others. The program probably tried to compensate of the videos that weren't shot from my camera like the iPhone one. :)

LYD - Sing a Song

59 Cent Tacos

Lead Me Home

Lime Cilantro Rice

Labor Day Weekend with Huni

Room Cleaning

Pack Pack Pack Pack

Marrying Someone and Taken for Granted

To: Huni

Wow, I had such a weird/bad dream last night. There were two parts that I remembered. The first was where for whatever reason, I told a cousin (I don't know who it was, I just knew in my dream that she was my cousin) that I'd marry her. I think it was a spur of the moment type thing, but later I got it together and was thinking, "What am I doing? I'm already engaged!" And I was afraid of telling her cause I didn't want to break her heart. But I finally did and she said that somewhere inside her, she knew that she and I were really not meant to be.

"You know, because we're cousins."

And then I stupidly say, "Cousins can get married." She gets a small twinkle in her eye but then I tell her that I still couldn't marry her, because I was already engaged.

The second part you had come over and we were somewhere, but you weren't happy. I was trying to figure out what was wrong but you were moody with me and answered with very short sentences, usually one word. But finally I get it out of you and you felt like you coming over was just for me to satisfy my own physical desires. Essentially taking you for granted again...

I think this was from the conversation we had a couple of days ago ^^;; So even if this thought was nowhere near your mind, just know that it isn't so and I am gratefully looking forward to seeing you.

From: Clover

PS: I didn't have time to do a video for this dream so I thought it'd be faster to just type it out. :3 Editing and uploading can take some time. ^^;;

Locked out

Going to School

Hello Yolanda!

A Day at Band Camp

Crab Bisque

Darn Cilantro

The First One!

Need to fix aspect ratio. Hmm... I wonder how. >.>