After viewing Kristin Arola's view on "family" on her video, I was almost some what annoyed. To me it sounded as though her view on family was based off her lack of family. Bitter comments because her friends and family are proud of their children so they like to send pictures of them when they get the chance to. Get over it. Family doesn't even have to be blood but to me it's whose most important in your life, and if your friends are there for you and have children and you consider them family shouldn't you consider their children family as well? But for me I chose the word Joy. You see it around almost every holiday and it's always a joy to indulge in good food, gifts and to surround yourself with family. In the common dictionary joy means a feeling of great pleasure. It's delight, gladness, pleasure, mirth, and rejoicing.

            When it comes to almost every holiday we’re always rejoicing over something. Freedom, Christ being born, Jesus dying for our sins, rejoicing in what we’re thankful for the most. But what makes the word Joy so grand is it doesn’t have to be a holiday to feel this word. It could be felt due to getting an A on your most recent test, getting married, buying a puppy anything that makes you feel good. Or another great thing that makes this word so special is cause its something that isn’t just about you. You can bring joy to someone else’s life just by the littlest things. Complimenting someone, surprising someone, or anything of that matter. It’s a selfless word. I myself have felt a lot of joy in my life especially when it comes to going to concerts, dates and even to the movies. It’s the type of word that doesn’t even take that much effort to feel, and that’s why it’s so wonderful.

Teaching/learning

In Dr. Tae’s video that compared skateboarding to the learning system in schools today, he mentioned a lot of good points. Overall he stated that when it comes to schools, students should be graded on whether or not they know the information or not. Either they know it or they don’t and giving them a C, or a B or any other grade doesn’t really mean they comprehend what they’ve been taught. In skateboarding you either know the trick or you don’t, and skateboarders aren’t graded on a trick, you either land the trick or you don’t, which makes a lot of sense and once they have learned the trick they move on to the next one. When you give a student a C it doesn’t really say that they know the information but that they know it enough to slide by, so then when they move onto the next thing being taught it causes even more of a struggle for them.

I agree with Dr. Tae, I think he brought a good point across and should be really taken into consideration. It also is close to how we’ve been taught in rhetoric. We’re not graded on the average scale, so we either wrote the essay correctly or we didn’t. It makes you try harder because they teacher hasn’t given you room to just slide by. You really have to work at it. My first few essays I got an unsatisfactory. But after given a few more chances to try again, i finally got it down pat and made some huge improvements in my writing. At first I hated the grading scale, I thought it was ridiculous. I wanted to know exactly what I had in the class, but after finally watching this video it finally made since. Our teacher was pretty much letting us know that we either know it or we don’t, and if we don’t know it then we better start practicing.

In Dr. Tae’s video that compared skateboarding to the learning system in schools today, he mentioned a lot of good points. Overall he stated that when it comes to schools, students should be graded on whether or not they know the information or not. Either they know it or they don’t and giving them a C, or a B or any other grade doesn’t really mean they comprehend what they’ve been taught. In skateboarding you either know the trick or you don’t, and skateboarders aren’t graded on a trick, you either land the trick or you don’t, which makes a lot of sense and once they have learned the trick they move on to the next one. When you give a student a C it doesn’t really say that they know the information but that they know it enough to slide by, so then when they move onto the next thing being taught it causes even more of a struggle for them.

I agree with Dr. Tae, I think he brought a good point across and should be really taken into consideration. It also is close to how we’ve been taught in rhetoric. We’re not graded on the average scale, so we either wrote the essay correctly or we didn’t. It makes you try harder because they teacher hasn’t given you room to just slide by. You really have to work at it. My first few essays I got an unsatisfactory. But after given a few more chances to try again, i finally got it down pat and made some huge improvements in my writing. At first I hated the grading scale, I thought it was ridiculous. I wanted to know exactly what I had in the class, but after finally watching this video it finally made since. Our teacher was pretty much letting us know that we either know it or we don’t, and if we don’t know it then we better start practicing.