Transitional Presentation of Learning (TPOL):
What TPOLs are:
Transitional presentations of learning happen at the end of second semester. These presentations are Animas' way of doing finals. Their a pass or fail, you either hit everything on the rubric and produce a beautiful presentation or you don't. For TPOLs we must have an extended metaphor that stretches throughout our whole oral presentation, we are also supposed to have evidence for everything we talk about as well as have some sort of visual. This year my metaphor was about a tree and growing into a strong project based learner. The link below is a video of my presentation.
Transitional presentations of learning happen at the end of second semester. These presentations are Animas' way of doing finals. Their a pass or fail, you either hit everything on the rubric and produce a beautiful presentation or you don't. For TPOLs we must have an extended metaphor that stretches throughout our whole oral presentation, we are also supposed to have evidence for everything we talk about as well as have some sort of visual. This year my metaphor was about a tree and growing into a strong project based learner. The link below is a video of my presentation.
Evidence For Questions:
Little Shop Of Physics--Pendulum Wave:
Change In My Writing:
6th Paragraph, "From Pong To Battlefield V: The Effects of Video Games in Our Society:"
Everyone is socialized to think one thing or another. For me this was that women just don’t play video games, which is absurd because I know women in my life that play video games and they are pretty good at it too. In Bobbie Harro’s “Cycle of Socialization” there is this cycle that repeats over and over as you are socialized throughout your life. When we read this article I was shocked at how accurate it was to my life and the From the beginning of it “The Beginning” to the end “Actions” and “Direction for Change” In the beginning we are a blank slate we different aspects of it. on’t know what stereotypes are, we don’t know what the “Norm” or “Status Quo” is. There is a quote from the article that states being a blank slate. “These identities are ascribed to us at birth through no effort or decision or choice of our own: there is, therefore, no reason to blame each other or hold each other responsible for the identities we have” Yet people still judge you for who you are. In the end men and women are the same they just have a different physical make up. Due to this men and women can do the same things, such as playing video games. Even tho I say this I still stereotype people.
8th Paragraph, "Truth Of War" Explanatory Essay:
Operation Iraqi Freedom occurred March of 2003, while I was training at Ft. Eustis, Virginia. We had been sent word from president George W. Bush that we were going to be invading Iraq on the 20th of this month. Bush had told us that he had reason to believe that Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein had WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) these were going to be a liability for the U.S.A’s safety if these WMD were a real. In order to keep the U.S. safe, they involved themselves by deploying 177,000 troops to Iraq’s border for the initial ground assault of the invasion. (45,000) Brittish, (2,000) Australia, and (194) Poland also assisted during the war. After we had gotten word from Bush we started to gather our units together and head out. My unit "The Doers" was the 6th Transportation Battalion, we were supposed to arrive at Iraq’s border on the 3rd day of the invasion
Everyone is socialized to think one thing or another. For me this was that women just don’t play video games, which is absurd because I know women in my life that play video games and they are pretty good at it too. In Bobbie Harro’s “Cycle of Socialization” there is this cycle that repeats over and over as you are socialized throughout your life. When we read this article I was shocked at how accurate it was to my life and the From the beginning of it “The Beginning” to the end “Actions” and “Direction for Change” In the beginning we are a blank slate we different aspects of it. on’t know what stereotypes are, we don’t know what the “Norm” or “Status Quo” is. There is a quote from the article that states being a blank slate. “These identities are ascribed to us at birth through no effort or decision or choice of our own: there is, therefore, no reason to blame each other or hold each other responsible for the identities we have” Yet people still judge you for who you are. In the end men and women are the same they just have a different physical make up. Due to this men and women can do the same things, such as playing video games. Even tho I say this I still stereotype people.
8th Paragraph, "Truth Of War" Explanatory Essay:
Operation Iraqi Freedom occurred March of 2003, while I was training at Ft. Eustis, Virginia. We had been sent word from president George W. Bush that we were going to be invading Iraq on the 20th of this month. Bush had told us that he had reason to believe that Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein had WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) these were going to be a liability for the U.S.A’s safety if these WMD were a real. In order to keep the U.S. safe, they involved themselves by deploying 177,000 troops to Iraq’s border for the initial ground assault of the invasion. (45,000) Brittish, (2,000) Australia, and (194) Poland also assisted during the war. After we had gotten word from Bush we started to gather our units together and head out. My unit "The Doers" was the 6th Transportation Battalion, we were supposed to arrive at Iraq’s border on the 3rd day of the invasion
Truth Of War:
First Paragraph of Explanatory Essay:
After I was told to choose a war event from the 20th to 21st century, I immediately thought of my dad back in 2003, and how he had been deployed in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. This was also the year I was born so it was interesting to see what had been going on during that time. This event was a compelling thing for me, not only for the information about Operation Iraqi Freedom but because it was also on more of a personal level, see my dad was the night battle captain at Camp Cedar, one of the U.S camps during the invasion. He was in charge of logistics and other things that needed to be done at night to keep the camp running smoothly. Learning about something that I had a deep interest in was a lot more exciting and meaningful than just picking a random event that I had some minor interest in.
Second to Last Paragraph of Explanatory Essay:
It took us about a day and a half of commuting through the desert to reach the spot we had been assigned. Our camp, Camp Cedar was ~50 acres of complete desert. On our way there we passed the tanks to our left, this was because they had to drive on the main road, while we had just cut straight through the desert. After getting to Camp Cedar we bulldozed the sand to make berms, 50 caliber machine guns, and mark 19 grenade launchers were set up at posts. Once camp was set up, we had tanks driving past us for a solid week. Our camp ended up not getting infantry or medical support for a month or a month and a half, meaning that we were completely self-dependent in everything for that amount of time.
After I was told to choose a war event from the 20th to 21st century, I immediately thought of my dad back in 2003, and how he had been deployed in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. This was also the year I was born so it was interesting to see what had been going on during that time. This event was a compelling thing for me, not only for the information about Operation Iraqi Freedom but because it was also on more of a personal level, see my dad was the night battle captain at Camp Cedar, one of the U.S camps during the invasion. He was in charge of logistics and other things that needed to be done at night to keep the camp running smoothly. Learning about something that I had a deep interest in was a lot more exciting and meaningful than just picking a random event that I had some minor interest in.
Second to Last Paragraph of Explanatory Essay:
It took us about a day and a half of commuting through the desert to reach the spot we had been assigned. Our camp, Camp Cedar was ~50 acres of complete desert. On our way there we passed the tanks to our left, this was because they had to drive on the main road, while we had just cut straight through the desert. After getting to Camp Cedar we bulldozed the sand to make berms, 50 caliber machine guns, and mark 19 grenade launchers were set up at posts. Once camp was set up, we had tanks driving past us for a solid week. Our camp ended up not getting infantry or medical support for a month or a month and a half, meaning that we were completely self-dependent in everything for that amount of time.