Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Single Story

Read instructions carefully and completely before doing anything.

As you produce your work, for school or in your professional life, you must put yourself into it. It should show who you are, what you are all about. You represent a culture, a lifestyle, an idea, a concept. You are not, or should not be, a cliché
  1. Click on this link and watch this 5 minute video that will help you with your note taking as you follow the next step and will be your guide for step 3. Mind mapping
  2. Click on the title. Watch the 18-minute conference. Take notes.
  3. Write a 500-word essay where you will express your opinion on the topic of the video.
  4. You must turn in your essay on Friday, along with your notes.
  5. Write a brief comment after watching both videos.
As you are working on your grammar and punctuation exercises on the links on the posts below, you should have no trouble.

22 comments:

  1. I just saw the video, is good for us.
    Thank you and see you tomorrow!

    Breathe and Smile

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  2. hi ralf i like the video is very useful and interesting because sometimes we don´t know how make a mind mapping in a correct form.

    thaks, see you tomorrow!!

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  3. Hi ralf, I'm carlos form the bicultural group, I think that this conference was so interesting and also entertaining, first because she's right, in the story there are many sterotipes that make everyone have a bad perspective of them. Great conference better thant the other one :P

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  4. hi =D
    the video is interesting and it makes you thing how wrong we are in such many things, we can see everything since different perspectives and give for ourselves knowledge and conprenhension.
    Att. Lorena Muñoz
    Gpo 20

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  5. Hi Ralf! I just saw the video and one teacher that I had in High school tought me how make a mind mapping and there are very useful for study or understand something

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  6. Hi Ralf it really help me the mind map video because the truth is that I didn't have idea how a mind map was build up. And the single story video pftt my god it is really interesting, because unfortunately we tent to judge

    -Att: Antonella
    Group 20

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  7. Hi Ralf, the video of the mind map was very interesting and constructive, to learn how to create a better mind map.
    And the conference about the single story, was very interesting, because all the words of that woman were correct, because we see or hear something about the people, and he judge them immediately, so this conference makes me to have a better comprehension about the stereotypes.

    Alejandro Bernal
    Group 20

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  8. Hi Ralf!!! :D this mind map video was very interesting and it really help me because I am not so good doing this kind of stuff... :)
    And abaout the single story video OMG!!! it was really interesting too because unfortunately most of the people including me tent to judge with out having arguments so it really me to understand more about stereotypes :D
    Att: Maria Fernanda Cardenas Fonseca
    Group 20 :)

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  9. Hey there Ralf, Edson here. I'd always thought that 'maximise' was with a 'z'...guess I've been living a lie my entire life. Oh well. Anyway, these videos are educational, and it's funny how people get those stereotypes, eh? Maybe some day we Mexicans will advance from riding donkeys to horses...who knows. Either way, see you in class!

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  10. hi ralf good videos :D
    Jonathan Antonio

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  11. Hey RALF, where do you find these videos? Very interesting I might say. I think that anyone who has lived in more than one country will automatically recall the same feelings and opinion "The single story" is trying to express.

    -Victor Escobedo

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  12. Hi Ralf, the video of mind mapping was really useful for me, I didn't know much things about mind maps until know, and the video of the conference really makes me do conscence of how just a simple thing like stereotypes can affect our perception.

    Thank you and see you tomorrow.
    Abraham Rodríguez Leija.

    Sorry about the comment below, I was wrong

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  13. The first video is non interesting than the second one, really is interesting the reason that she has about the differents steriotypes that the people has of different countries. But is a good video, show me a different kind to see the things!

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  14. Hi Ralf the video of Mind Mapping was really really interesting because before i saw it i had a wrong concept of what is a mind map and how we can make one of it.

    And the conference of The Single Story was interesting too because i mean, i didnt have idea of how easily we can affect and change our opinion and perception of things.

    well thanks ralf see you around at school!

    Fernando Torres

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  15. All the videos are really interesting,st in the first video i learned somenthing that will be usefull to me, the second video showed a truth about stereotypes.

    ana l.manzo
    group 20

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  16. Hi Ralf, the videos were intereestings, now I now how to do better mind maps

    Diego Ernaesto
    Group 20

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  17. Hey ralf,
    I never knew mind maps could be that fun, thanks for sharing the video with us. The conference was very interesting and it made me reflect on how we shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. =)

    -Sofi
    Group 20

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  18. Heyy Ralf!!!!
    I truly appreciate the information on the mind mapping video. Mind maps are useful tools that one can certainly adapt to our learning style, they realy help !!!
    Andrea Lujan Sanchez; Group 20

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  19. Hey Ralf,
    I liked the mind mapping video, i thought it was informative.
    I especially enjoyed the second video, what she said is very true and i felt that i could relate to what she was saying.

    Luis Valle
    Group 20

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  20. Hey Ralf, just letting you know I watched the videos.
    I really hate stereotyping, so I think the TED conference video was very true and rather interesting.

    Regards, K. Daniel Moreno
    Group 20

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  21. Hi rlaf, I just saw the 2 videos and I liked, I am going to do that kind of mind mapping and the conference of the single story it´s saying the truth of the judments that we do for other places.


    Fernando Guerrero group 20

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  22. My comment about the video its that girl amazing and the way that she writes and livng the life learning about the diferent cultures and the thing more important that i like about hte video its you as a person can not have just a single story bwecause you just see one part of the world, need to open your mind and see all the stories

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