Genius Hour Day 2

01/31/2017

            Today was my second official day of genius hour. Today I spent time writing my note to self in relation to a lot of reflection. I started the hour with thinking of what to writing and finally writing one positive thing about my day as well as something I love about myself. Then I spent time reflecting on what went wrong in my genius hour last week as I allowed my negative emotions to overweight my positive note taking. I thought to myself ways in which I can make this experience more positive and allow the positive messages impact my emotions.
            This week has been stressful with school, but when writing my positive note I made sure I reflected on all the past notes I have written. Reflecting back on the past notes has definitely made me realize that I will have good and bad days, I just need to focus on the positive and it truly lifted my spirit and made me smile. Below is am image of me confidently holding up my note to self.

Tuzi, M. (January 31st, 2017). Note taking.

 

 

            In next weeks genius hour, I will research blogs and videos to see if anyone has done something similar to myself. If so, I want to note how they played it out as well as the outcomes they found.



Genius Hour Day 1

1/24/2017


Hi all! Today I completed my third genius hour. I proceeded to take out a sticky note and write something that was good about my day and one thing I love about myself. I wrote the two points and added it to "My Happy Jar." What I learnt about my topic this week is that that one thing I love about myself does not have to be based of appearance, it can be based off a personality trait I have or an action I have done today. I also realized that most of my good memories of the day involve others. This week I struggled a lot writing my sticky note. I struggled because I have been having a stressful week and when times are not the greatest, it is hard to think of positive things about yourself or day. Before next week's genius hour, I feel that I need to research factors that I could love about myself or day in order to think develop positive notes even on tough days. I still question if writing positive notes about myself and day actually affect my emotions in a positive way. From here on I will push myself to develop deeper notes and to think of what I wrote when my days are not the brightest.
  - Maddalene

Tuzi, M. (January 24th, 2017). Thinking of my day.

 

Genius Hour

         
                                      Welcome!

         For the next few weeks I will be documenting a task that I will be working on for two hours each week. I will be experimenting and researching if writing a positive sentence to myself each week will increase my esteem and happiness. My genius hour question is how will a positive note a day for eight weeks affect my emotional state? I welcome you to follow along in this Genius hour project. I hope you enjoy!

Copyright

Copyright is a major issue within schools today. It is an aspect of research that is looked over by many. Students need to become educated on taking information from the internet as a tool for their learning, rather than a source of plagiarism.
           Copyright is the process of getting a license in order to protect your work from the public. It is the ability to control the altering of your work by making certain aspects of your work inaccessible and some to be used to a certain extent without the individual asking you. Copyright is a way for everyone to share knowledge and for teachers to use in order to create innovative knowledge for their students. Copyright exists to make sure that work is on the internet for fair use such as teaching, studying and criticisms (Figg, ND). Something about copyright that I feel would be important to teach students are the types of copyright labels so they can research information online and know what information they can and cannot use and what information they can alter. An example of the types of copyright that I would teach my students are presented in the image below. Another example of what teachers should educate their students on in regards to copyright are types of plagiarism, so students understand how to present information that is accessible in the proper manner. This is also shown in an image below.

Below are examples of how to cite images found online.

KS3 ICT. (2013, May 16). Types of Copyright [Online image]. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/mrhaltonsictwebsite/year-7-ict/lesson-3-copyright-and-fair-use

 

Writers Digest. (ND) The Four Most Common Types of Plagiarism [Online Image]. Retrieved from http://www.writersdigest.com/what-is-plagiarism






References


Figg, C. (ND). Copyright for tech-enhanced teaching. Handy 4 Class.


KS3 ICT. (2013, May 16). Types of Copyright [Online image]. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/mrhaltonsictwebsite/year-7-ict/lesson-3-copyright-and-fair-use


Writers Digest. (ND) The Four Most Common Types of Plagiarism [Online Image]. Retrieved from http://www.writersdigest.com/what-is-plagiarism