Motivation - A Response

     In my opinion, I just love Tony's blogging style. Why you may ask? It's because of his visuals. His visuals are a great way to emphasize on his key words and phrases. Instead of bolding or italicizing his key words, he uses pictures to help aid his ideas. Also, the visuals get my attention really quickly, it gets me intrigued to what he wants to say. For example, if you see a post with just plain words in it, you get the impression that the may or may not be good, but it will definitely be boring. But if you see a post with visuals, you automatically get the impression that the post has something interesting in it. In a nutshell, his visuals are a great aid to make his posts more interesting and fun to read.

     Not only are his visuals great, but also his points about motivation. I completely agree with Tony about motivation. Teachers have to learn to connect with their students, find out what triggers that spark of motivation in the student. This is quite tricky for the teacher, due to the fact that every student is unique in their own ways, and have their own ways of triggering their motivation. Which is why I agree with Tony's points, you have to let the students have options. You shouldn't always be strict and restrain what you want to see from the student, but you should give options for the student, to pick what the student prefers. When a student picks what he wants to do, it gives him/her motivation to do it. Once you are able to motivate all the students, I guarantee, you will so a drastic improvement in the student's learning.

     In a short summary, I couldn't agree with Tony more, and his visuals are great. It emphasizes things in a more unique way, and it's fun. And his point are actually relatable to some people (Ex. Teachers, staff, etc ..) Also, I agree that the student should be learning out of joy, from their choice, not always restrained to what the teachers want. If you don't achieve this, the student will get bored, and get sloppy and/or lazy

   
   

Tony Gurr response

Tony Gurr response
In humanities class on Wednesday we did a lot of things. One of those things was going on to Tony Gurr's blog. Tony is a man who post things on Learning and motivation. Tony has a lot of interesting posts on his blog,also he calls his blog  a LEARNacy blog. I know LEARNacy isn't a word however it creative and original which are things Tony mentions on his blog. Now I am going to mention things about his blogs and some things that I might not have liked as much.

 Tony has a lot of interesting and true information on his Blog. I loved how Tony added a bit of humor in some of his posts. I completely agree with everything Tony says in his posts. An example would be the post of the hand flowers I find that really smart, also I find it true how the image says creativity doesn't run out the more you use the more you have. I find that post very accurate,because how can something that comes form your brain be something that runs out? Some of his other posts that I like is the one of the with the fish, it says when we catch a fish, we bait the hook with what the fish like, not what the fisherman likes. In class we had a bit of a discussion on what this post is about. In conclusion we came up with it being about how when teachers teach they should teach what the students are interested in, not what the teacher are interested in. I am not saying any teacher that teaches about what they like are bad teacher, however as well as teaching what interests them the should as do the same for the students,so they don't get bored. However they shouldn't just be teaching what the students are interested in but there should be a bit or compromise. Like in the post fisherman may not like worms but they do like fish. I guess in a way they may not put on the hook what they like but in the end they do get what they like.

After mentioning some of the posts on Tony's Blog that I quite enjoyed, I am going to have say somethings about his blog that I didn't like. In my opinion Tony's blog is super,however I found the only thing I didn't like about his blog, was the excessive amount of pictures. The pictures are great however an excessive amount might draw the audience away from what he is really trying to say. While Ms Lees was showing some of Tony's posts I got distracted by the blushing fish,and I might have missed what he was trying to say if Ms Lees didn't ask us about it. Also in my opinion I think that instead of always trying to get point across with images, you could try explaining what you want to say with something like poetry. Other then that though I thought his blog was very interesting.

So to conclude my Thoughts I am going to give a brief summary of my thinking. After Looking through Tony's blog, I learned things I've never even thought about. Also my thoughts on somethings have expanded since reading some of Tony's posts. Also as I mentioned before I really liked some of the humor added in the posts, I felt in a way it helped me see the post in a humorous perspective as well as a serious one. Other then the excessive amount of photo's there was nothing else on Tony's blog I disliked. On the other hand something else I really liked on Tony's blog was how he capitalized the root word to emphasize it more. For example LEARNing or TEACHing. So in conclusion I have learned lot's from visiting Tony's blog

 

Poetry That Moves - By John Laraya

Sorry for the horrible quality in the video. I replaced the words you can't read with annotations, so it should be fine. c:

 My Stop Motion Video Poem
JUST DON'T WANT TO GROW UP
Poem by Amy Kredo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-kkOWuW48

What is my ________?
My companion My bestfriend
The owner he will always defend
Furry and four legged
Very Fierce but very timid
Toys and tails thrown
He, I will always own
Happiness all around
Always playing on the ground
But when he passes away
My days will be dull and every grey