I've just uploaded my final report along with the assessment forms and the analysis I made of the students' answers.
I decided to make a graph with the students' answers. Remember I am a visual, global person so I love the general picture. These graphs are my work in colours and different shapes. It was really nice to do. I remember when I was a kid I was really great at drawing graphs, even those circular ones you had to make lots of calculations to be able to build. Now there is an amazing thing called excell where you write numbers and get perfectly drawn, colourful graphs. I also remember getting furious at a professor at university who told us we were studying languages, therefore we weren't able to understand graphs! I do understand graphs as graphs are pictures and languages can also be pictures as music can be a collection of pictures too.
My head seems to be full of pictures all the time and I always dream in colour, I'm sure. However, I don't like reading books with pictures because they interfere with the pictures I make in my head when I read them, as I don't like seeing films based on books I read as they rarely match my mental pictures and I always get disappointed. The problem is I can never put my thought into pictures- I'm lousy at drawing! - so I need words to make my picture and I'm usually good at that. Those graphs are part of my thoughts and feelings in a picture! I love computers when they solve our problems like that!
( picture in ramonaspainting.com )
Hi Sara!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post especially your love for pictures! You are very lucky Sara because we are living in a culture that focus more on images. I liked best the sentence where you say:"I always dream in colour" because you are fortune to dream in such a wonderful way!in the past I wrote a poem when I lost the taste of dream i said:"
My eyes are homesick,
To celebrate at least one vision;
That of the sweet dream
Shared by everyone,
The dream that I am free,
The dream that I have hope,
At least in colorful visions,
Enjoying union, freedom, dignity..
After one dark night
full of prisons"
Today like you I regained seeing things in color! I hope that everyone does so!
Khaled Hafdhi, Tunisia.
Dear Sara!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, congratulations on your project. it was great reading it. and , the global picture that I got from it was very beautiful.
Great that you are a visual learner and that you ike to "see the world in color", it means you are a positive and enthusiastic person! :)
I also like making pictures in my mind, and I think that they are in fact a kind of language, we can communicate with them so, therefore languages and images are connected! your teacher was absolutely wrong!!
And, the same as you, I always get disappointed and sometimes even mad when I watch a movie that is based on a book I have read. To me, they always miss the essence of the scene or the moment.
Anyways, keep living in colors! and teaching with them.
GABY
P.S. nice poem Khaled :)
Hi, Sara,
ReplyDeleteIt's pleasant to read your reflection. I like picutres and colors, too and I use it in my teaching to make flash cards, posters or decorating the classroom.
Dreaming in different colors is a blessing. I have a friend who said the same thing about his dream. I wonder what you mostly dream about. :)
Reading your project helps me a lot and I revised my project based on you and Gaby's suggestions. They are very helpful.
I hope that you continue to write your post so I can read from it. I will try to do mine.
This is really a great course because I've learn so much and make valuable friends.
Yaling,Taiwan