Tag Archives: YOLO

3/24/2015

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So today, we had three smallish assignments that are due today. I explained them all at the start of class and then let you work on them.

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In the Carpe Diem section, click on the Seize the Day folder. Read the story for Lingerie and follow the directions. Pretty easy. All you have to do is find ONE WORD. Then, explain how the story is carpe diem. You can do this is the comment section.

Then, grab the #carpediem or #yolo PowerPoint. These are all tweets that I got a few years ago and whited out the actual hash tag. For each image, click it and go to PICTURE then COLOR and then choose PURPLE for carpe diem and BLUE for YOLO.

Then, finish your bucket list and turn it in.

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1/8/2015 – B

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I sent everyone a PowerPoint about Carpe Diem, Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, Memento Mori, and YOLO today. We translated the passage from Horace (where we get the expression carpe diem from). You can use this on the final exam if you still have it in ten weeks.

The last page of the PowerPoint is a foldable. You will read the four sentences, and then translate each sentence in your own thought. Add some clip art. I explained what it mean to strain the wine by showing a snippet from a video about pruno. I also serenaded the class to Doris Day’s song Que Sera Sera. Apparently, the entire school heard my song to you.

Make sure you have clip art! You may need to resize the font. Then cut thusly:

And then fold/glue.

Afterwards, we created an account on Bucket List. I won’t be able to access your account information, so remember your username and password, please!

Here is my account that you can look at. You can see that I have goals that I want to do, and things that I have done.

I want you to create a bucket list of things that YOU want to do before you die. Focus on meaningful things that you want to do, not just cool things. I know, it’s hard NOT to put those cool things on your list when you see them, but just think about things that you’d regret if you didn’t do them.

I’m looking for ten cool things and ten meaningful things for a total list of 20 items.

 

10/20/2015

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We totally ran out of time for all of the super awesome cool things we were supposed to do yesterday! In case you didn’t do it yet, here is the link for YESTERDAY’S exit ticket!

Firstly, if you needed your gmail password reset, I had those for you so you could send me the 48 Hours e-mail.

I also gave out my password for Remind.

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We read through Carpe Diem Translation PowerPoint and talked about carpe diem, memento mori, eat, drink, and be merry, and YOLO.

The next assignment we did was the Tower Translation. You will read the four sentences, and then translate each sentence in your own thought. Add some clip art. I explained what it mean to strain the wine by showing a snippet from a video about pruno. I also serenaded the class to Doris Day’s song Que Sera Sera. Supposedly there are videos out there. If you have them, post a link below in the comment section!

MAKE SURE YOU ONLY PRINT THE VERY LAST SLIDE!

Make sure you have clip art! You may need to resize the font. Then cut thusly:

And then fold/glue.

We then answered the following Exit Ticket question and worked on our Bucket Lists.

 

4/17/14

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It’s the end of our carpe diem unit! Huzzah!

Yesterday, we did the six stations around the room, and today,w e are using tha tinformation to write a paper over carpe diem and YOLO. You can find instructions in BB in the Carpe Diem unit in the Dead Poet’s Society folder.

The big thing to remember is have a CLEAR THESIS and make sure that you are using the information from yesterday’s sessions – that was the WHOLE reason we did that – what’s the point of pre-writing if you don’t actually USE IT for your writing???

Have a great three day weekend and I’ll see you on Monday when we start our new unit! 🙂

4/4/14

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Gradespeed is finally up! Grades are currently being updated so look for a complete average on Monday during VV.

Last night, I took all of your post-it’s note and typed them up. I want you to cross out the items that would create regret when the person realized that death was not imminent.

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For example, if I wrote that I wanted to give away all of my money to charity, I probably would regret that once I realized that I was going to live. You aren’t judging – it’s not whether it’s GOOD or BAD – it’s about regret.

We then talked about the difference between YOLO and Carpe Diem and then we categorized tweet based on which hash tag we thought it should have. Any tweet that is CARPE DIEM is going to be BLUE and any YOLO tweet is RED.

hashtag1Each tweet is its own picture. Click the picture and then click Picture Tools (in pink).  You’ll get a whole bunch of options.

hashtag2This one is BLUE. So I’m going to go to RECOLOR and choose blue to change the color.

hashtag3See! Perfect!

Lastly, I briefly introduced our first major grade: The Obituary. We are in the CARPE DIEM unit and this is a great way to show not only that you understand carpe diem, but how you can apply this to your real life. That’s relevance! This is supposed to be an INSPIRING activity and it’s fairly easy – if you have goals. If you don’t have goals, it can be a bit difficult, so to assist with that, we are going to do a FUTURE TIMELINE.

Using the following resource, create a timeline of at least ten major events in your life AFTER graduation. I just want a title and a picture for each event. The more detailed you get here, the easier the major grade writing will be.

timeline saveIf you need to stop and save while you are in the middle, you can save the file where the x is, but that is ONLY for rough drafts. This is NOT what you will turn into me. You will click SAVE FINAL.

This will create a PDF file that you then turn into me. If you turn in anything other than a PDF, you’ll have to resubmit.

4/12/2013

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Hooray! Friday!

We started out today by watching the trailer for The Buried Life – Riley has the book in case you want to borrow ideas for your own BucketList.

Then, we used our obituaries and created a word cloud with Tagxedo.

AHOY – Here are the step-by-step instructions.

  • Click create.
  • Click the little arrow next to fonts and click USE LOCAL FONTS
  • Click Load
  • Copy and paste your Obituary text
  • Hit submit

Then, make it pretty.

You can choose the theme – which is the colors.

Change the shape by clicking – SHAPE

Play with the options – make it pretty!

When you get it just like you like it, save it.

Save it as a 4 MP jpg.

Then, go to the Carpe Diem folder in LMS and download the diorama. Replace my word cloud with YOUR word cloud, answer the three questions, and change the color of the sides to match your word cloud. Drop this off in the drop box. I’ll print in color and make the foldable for you!

Then, you download the #Carpe Diem #YOLO item in LMS. Make sure you do this Firefox or Chrome – if you use IE, you can’t open the file. This is dealing with hash tags on Twitter. #cool

A hash tag is something that help search engines in Twitter and Instagram. All of the things in that file are tweets that I found that generally have #carpe_diem or #yolo. Click the little white arrow so you can select things.

Using your mouse, drag the tweets to the hashtag you think they belong to. If you think a tweet is YOLO, drag it #yolo line.

Save, and turn in.

The last thing we did was the blog post Carpe Diem Closure. Make sure you COPY your answer before you hit submit, otherwise, you run the risk of losing all that you have written.

Carpe Diem Closure

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Today marks the end of carpe diem for us! For this wrap-up assignment, I want you to choose three of the following questions to answer. Make sure that you use complete sentences and explain yourself fully – remember GIGO!

There is no need to copy/paste the prompt in the comment box – just restate the question when you compose your answer.

Before you hit submit, make sure you copy (CTL+C) your answer in case the CAPTCHA tricks you.

  • What is the difference between Carpe Diem and YOLO?
  • Which one is most realistic?
  • Why does YOLO get a bad reputation?
  • Reflect upon the Post-It note from last week – is your post-it note Carpe Diem or YOLO?
  • What are your thoughts about carpe diem?
  • Is carpe diem a realistic way to live your lives? Why or why not?

As always, if I ask you to do something, I do it as well. Here are my three responses:

I think YOLO gets a bad reputation because most people use it to justify reckless actions that they might later regret. Carpe diem is more about living with no regrets. To me, YOLO is counterproductive to carpe diem, since most times people use #YOLO for something that will bring them shame and embarrassment tomorrow.

I think carpe diem is realistic to an extent. You can only seize so much in a day, and you need to expect that you will be around tomorrow. I don’t think wasting your entire paycheck in one night is representative of carpe diem, because you will end up suffering more in the long run. To me, carpe diem is more like the e-mail that we read in class – don’t save your perfume for special occasions – each day we are here is special!

My post-it note is definitely carpe diem rather than YOLO. I don’t want to do anything crazy, and while there are lots of things on my Bucket List that I’d like to accomplish before I die, I’d rather spend my time with family and friends rather than going out trying to drive motorcycles and dancing.