As your final online assignment, you are to reflect on your experiences in this class and explain how the class has improved the way you think. Before you answer this question, look at your lab notebook and online entries. You are to use these as the evidence to support your answer. Be detailed and specific when responding (no generalizations).

A few rules:
1. The length of your response should be at least 300 words.
2. You should read the people who posted before you, and, within your post, agree, qualify, or
disagree with some of their statements.
3. Your response should be written in first person, but it should not be casual. No text-
message speak, emoticons, or low-level words.

Due: Thursday, May 28th by 3rd period

Your Possible Creative Strengths

Emotional expressiveness reflects a person’s ability to communicate feelings and emotions verbally and nonverbally.

Storytelling articulateness indicates a person’s ability to clearly and powerfully communicate an idea or tell a story by providing some kind of environment and sufficient detail to put things in context.

Movement or action reflects a person’s perception and depiction of movement through titles and the speech and bodily posture of figures in his/her drawings.

Expressiveness of titles notes a person’s use of titles that go beyond simple description and communicate something about the pictures that the graphic cues do not express without the title.

Synthesis of Incomplete figures/circles: Combining two or more figures is quite rare and is found in a person whose thinking departs from the commonplace and established. This is a person who is able to see relationships among rather diverse and unrelated elements, and who, even under restrictive conditions, utilizes whatever freedom is possible.

Unusual visualization reflects an individual who sees things in new ways as well as old familiar ways and who can return repeatedly to a commonplace object or situation and perceive it in different ways.

Internal visualization indicates that a person is able to visualize beyond exteriors and pay attention to the internal dynamic working of things.

Extending or Breaking Boundaries suggests that a person is able to remain open long enough to permit the mind to make mental leaps in order to get away from the obvious and commonplace and to open up or extend boundaries or limits.
Humor reflects a person’s ability to create strong, sharp, distinct pictures in the minds of others causing amusement.

Richness of imagery reflects a person’s ability to excite and appeal to the senses.

Fantasy reflects a person’s use of imagination in imagery and titles.
Your Possible Critical Strengths
Comprehension: Grasping (understanding) the meaning of informational materials.
classifies; cites; converts; describes; discusses; estimates; explains; generalizes; gives examples; makes sense out of; paraphrases; restates (in own words); summarizes; traces; understands.
Application: The use of previously learned information in new and concrete situations to solve problems that have single or best answers. acts; administers; articulates; assesses; charts; collects; computes; constructs; contributes; controls; determines; develops; discovers; establishes; extends; implements; includes; informs; instructs; operationalizes; participates; predicts; prepares; preserves; produces; projects; provides; relates; reports; shows; solves; teaches; transfers; uses; utilizes.
Analysis: The breaking down of informational materials into their component parts, examining (and trying to understand the organizational structure of) such information to develop divergent conclusions by identifying motives or causes, making inferences, and/or finding evidence to support generalizations. breaks down; correlates; diagrams; differentiates; discriminates; distinguishes; focuses; illustrates; infers; limits; outlines; points out; prioritizes; recognizes; separates; subdivides.
Synthesis: Creatively or divergently applying prior knowledge and skills to produce a new or original whole. adapts; anticipates; categorizes; collaborates; combines; communicates; compares; compiles; composes; contrasts; creates; designs; devises; expresses; facilitates; formulates; generates; incorporates; individualizes; initiates; integrates; intervenes; models; modifies; negotiates; plans; progresses; rearranges; reconstructs; reinforces; reorganizes; revises; structures; substitutes; validates.
Evaluation: Judging the value of material based on personal values/opinions, resulting in an end product, with a given purpose, without real right or wrong answers.
Comprehension: Grasping (understanding) the meaning of informational materials.
classifies; cites; converts; describes; discusses; estimates; explains; generalizes; gives examples; makes sense out of; paraphrases; restates (in own words); summarizes; traces; understands.
Application: The use of previously learned information in new and concrete situations to solve problems that have single or best answers. acts; administers; articulates; assesses; charts; collects; computes; constructs; contributes; controls; determines; develops; discovers; establishes; extends; implements; includes; informs; instructs; operationalizes; participates; predicts; prepares; preserves; produces; projects; provides; relates; reports; shows; solves; teaches; transfers; uses; utilizes.
Analysis: The breaking down of informational materials into their component parts, examining (and trying to understand the organizational structure of) such information to develop divergent conclusions by identifying motives or causes, making inferences, and/or finding evidence to support generalizations.  breaks down; correlates; diagrams; differentiates; discriminates; distinguishes; focuses; illustrates; infers; limits; outlines; points out; prioritizes; recognizes; separates; subdivides.
Synthesis: Creatively or divergently applying prior knowledge and skills to produce a new or original whole.  adapts; anticipates; categorizes; collaborates; combines; communicates; compares; compiles; composes; contrasts; creates; designs; devises; expresses; facilitates; formulates; generates; incorporates; individualizes; initiates; integrates; intervenes; models; modifies; negotiates; plans; progresses; rearranges; reconstructs; reinforces; reorganizes; revises; structures; substitutes; validates.
Evaluation: Judging the value of material based on personal values/opinions, resulting in an end product, with a given purpose, without real right or wrong answers.
appraises; compares & contrasts; concludes; criticizes; critiques; decides; defends; interprets; judges; justifies; reframes; supports

Week 867

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, May 10. Put “Week 867″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post. Entries may be edited for taste or content.

Week 866

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, April 28. Put “Week 866″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post.

Week 865

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, April 28. Put “Week 865″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/09/AR2010040902338.html

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, April 21. Put “Week 864″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post.

Click on the link below and read “The Style Invitational” by The Washington Post.  After reading it, you should participate in the contest.  You must submit your answers to The Washington Post via email and you must post your response here as well.  The due date is Monday at midnight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/05/AR2010030501765.html

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, March 14. Put “Week 859″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post. ]]> http://ccthinking.edublogs.org/2010/03/10/washington-post-challenge-6-week-859/feed/ 23 http://ccthinking.edublogs.org/2010/03/04/washington-post-challenge-5-week-558/ http://ccthinking.edublogs.org/2010/03/04/washington-post-challenge-5-week-558/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:39:02 +0000 jhollstein http://ccthinking.edublogs.org/?p=86 Click on the link below and read “The Style Invitational” by The Washington Post.  After reading it, you should participate in the contest.  You must submit your answers to The Washington Post via email and you must post your response here as well.  The due date is Monday at midnight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/26/AR2010022602661.html?sub=AR

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, March 7. Put “Week 858″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021902632.html

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.com or by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, March 1. Put “Week 857″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/12/AR2010021202557.html

Send your entries by e-mail to losers@washpost.comor by fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, Feb. 22. Put “Week 856″ in the subject line of your e-mail, or it risks being ignored as spam. Include your name, postal address and phone number with your entry. Contests are judged on the basis of humor and originality. All entries become the property of The Washington Post. Entries may be edited for taste or content. Results will be published March 13. No purchase required for entry. Employees of The Washington Post, and their immediate relatives, are not eligible for prizes. Pseudonymous entries will be disqualified. The revised title for next week’s results is by Tom Witte; this week’s honorable-mentions subhead is by Roy Ashley.

1. Go to www.dimdim.com
2. Click “Join Meeting” – you don’t need to register or install any special software – it should just work.
3. In the “Meeting Room” box, type in “docfleetwood” (without the quotes)
4. Put your name in the “Your Name” box
5. Click “Join” and that should do it.  If you have a microphone, you can speak to me.  Otherwise there is a chat box.

The meetings are scheduled for 12:00 Friday (2/12/10) and for 11:00 Saturday (2/13/10).  They are scheduled for an hour each but you can just pop in and out as you wish.  So stop in and ask any questions you might have and then go about your day

From a technological perspective, I’m interested to see how this works – so feel free to stop by and say hi even if you don’t have a question