Today's Learning Log

Homework:
- Post "Do Something New For 30 Days" goals on your group's blog.
- Finish catching up for "There Will Be Wolves" chapter 3 & 4 questions if you did not finish them.

What We Did:
- We looked at almost everybody's blogs and critiqued on certain posts.
- We looked at a video where a person introduced "Do Something New For 30 Days"

Learning Intentions:
- Critiquing the blogs helped us understand what each of us excelled in blogging and what we needed work on. Ms. Lees Showed us the most recent blogs. The first person's blog was Kia's. Her post was thorough and well explained, a person that did not come to class would understand what she wrote, but her "Connections and Reflections were a little weak. She was very vague when explaining her connections and reflections. The blogs that we write should include all parts on the criteria. If you're missing even one part of it, you would lose a lot of marks.
- "Do Something New For 30 Days" is a task to challenge yourself. You choose something that you want to do for 30 days ( It should be something you think is challenging or it wouldn't have much of a point) and try to fulfill this. This may help you quit bad habits and/or establish good habits. A smoker could use this to try to quit smoking. Anybody could use this to establish reading interest. << Don't forget to post what you want to do for thirty days on your blog. >>

Connections:
- Critiquing the blogs is important as you need to evaluate what others are doing all the time. Critiquing is used not just for other people but for yourself too. When you critique what you do, you learn what you did well and what you need to improve on, and when you take out all the bad parts, you're left with what is the best and most useful part.
- "Do Something New For 30 Days" is important for establishing habits. When you look at yourself and ask :"What do I want to change about myself?" You can use this to accomplish the goals you set for yourself.

Reflections:
- Critiquing the blogs: When I look at the criteria of the learning blogs and compare it to my posts, I find that I lack a big part in the criteria. I need to explain the topics more thoroughly and finish all the parts to a blog.
- "Do Something New For 30 Days": I have done similar things in the past, but my style is a little different than this. My dad use to make me do push ups everyday, I would protest but wouldn't get anywhere. Then my dad would make me keep this up for a month or so. I found it useful in the end because I easily did the push up test.

Tips:
- Take your time to think before you post "Do Something New For 30 Days". This way, you might be able to think of something practical.

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