Thursday, February 16, 2006
More webbing?????
Well, I guess I'm not done yet with this phase of the process. I keep finding more cool stuff that I think needs to be addressed.
I do believe I am officially finished with finding sources. At least I hope so. Catherine emailed me the most amazing site that has links to so many different resource formats.
If you have the time, it would be worth checking out! All the information I am looking for is right there.
www.shepherd.edu/transweb/travelguide.htm
Currently I'm concentrating on the Digital-Based formats that Annette had us consider in the webbing document. Within the website that Catherine provided for me, I am able to access a number of things: videos, museum virtual tours, pictures of people, places, documents. One thing that is very cool is that I am able to read actual letters that Emerson wrote to Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson to her sister-in-law. It is amazing to have access to so much great information.
I know that it would not be prudent to stop my Internet searching, so I took Annette's advice and attempted to try a number of search engines using the same words. The one area that I still need to find information on is the present day practice of Transcendentalism. I used the three words "practicing modern Transcendentalism". Using AskJeeves I got 993 hits. Then I tried to open a document (the pdf for the Webbing Chart) and my computer froze. Luckily, this blogger site was minimized and I didn't lose anything I had typed! I will try more searches tomorrow.
Currently I am reading Callisons strategies for a good interview from Key Words because I'm hoping to hook up with Lena and/or Catherine in some way. I guess technically I referred to it as student talk earlier, but now it's an interview. Instead of mixing metaphors am I mixing lingo? Now that I'm reflecting on it, if I talk about my research and so do they, that is student talk. Then if I ask them questions about Transcendentalism, that is Interviewing! My favorite quote from this section on Key Words is an old Chinese proverb, "He who asks is a fool for five minutes; he who does not is a fool forever (206)." Ken Metzler, a journalism teacher, discusses in this section that a problem with interviewing is the fear of asking a question that makes you look ignorant. I am confident that I need to learn a lot about this topic so I am not concerned with looking ignorant. : )
Hopefully I can move on to Wiggling soon! I still need to access that graphic organizer so I can complete a web!
I do believe I am officially finished with finding sources. At least I hope so. Catherine emailed me the most amazing site that has links to so many different resource formats.
If you have the time, it would be worth checking out! All the information I am looking for is right there.
www.shepherd.edu/transweb/travelguide.htm
Currently I'm concentrating on the Digital-Based formats that Annette had us consider in the webbing document. Within the website that Catherine provided for me, I am able to access a number of things: videos, museum virtual tours, pictures of people, places, documents. One thing that is very cool is that I am able to read actual letters that Emerson wrote to Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson to her sister-in-law. It is amazing to have access to so much great information.
I know that it would not be prudent to stop my Internet searching, so I took Annette's advice and attempted to try a number of search engines using the same words. The one area that I still need to find information on is the present day practice of Transcendentalism. I used the three words "practicing modern Transcendentalism". Using AskJeeves I got 993 hits. Then I tried to open a document (the pdf for the Webbing Chart) and my computer froze. Luckily, this blogger site was minimized and I didn't lose anything I had typed! I will try more searches tomorrow.
Currently I am reading Callisons strategies for a good interview from Key Words because I'm hoping to hook up with Lena and/or Catherine in some way. I guess technically I referred to it as student talk earlier, but now it's an interview. Instead of mixing metaphors am I mixing lingo? Now that I'm reflecting on it, if I talk about my research and so do they, that is student talk. Then if I ask them questions about Transcendentalism, that is Interviewing! My favorite quote from this section on Key Words is an old Chinese proverb, "He who asks is a fool for five minutes; he who does not is a fool forever (206)." Ken Metzler, a journalism teacher, discusses in this section that a problem with interviewing is the fear of asking a question that makes you look ignorant. I am confident that I need to learn a lot about this topic so I am not concerned with looking ignorant. : )
Hopefully I can move on to Wiggling soon! I still need to access that graphic organizer so I can complete a web!
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Do you know about Transcendental meditation? I don't know all the ins and outs of it, but it is a modern practice, and it draws on similiar beliefs. Also, you many want to consider modern environmental/spiritual practices as Transcendentalist. For instance, I would certainly consider Wendell Berry a Transcendentalist. On the site I sent you, if you check out the Fruitlands/Bronson Alcott page (this is the page I created), you'll find info about communal living then and now.
Oh, and Steve Earle has a record called Transcendental Blues (not exactly meaning the Transcendentalists, but whenever that word is invoked there will be some correlation). If I think of more, I'll let you know.
I'm so excited for you! The personal inquiry I went through during the Transcendental course was by far the most profound inquiry of my life!
Do you know about Transcendental meditation? I don't know all the ins and outs of it, but it is a modern practice, and it draws on similiar beliefs. Also, you many want to consider modern environmental/spiritual practices as Transcendentalist. For instance, I would certainly consider Wendell Berry a Transcendentalist. On the site I sent you, if you check out the Fruitlands/Bronson Alcott page (this is the page I created), you'll find info about communal living then and now.
Oh, and Steve Earle has a record called Transcendental Blues (not exactly meaning the Transcendentalists, but whenever that word is invoked there will be some correlation). If I think of more, I'll let you know.
I'm so excited for you! The personal inquiry I went through during the Transcendental course was by far the most profound inquiry of my life!
I did not realize that people still practiced Trancendentalism today. That is great! I always found the ideas of Trancendentalism interesting and thought-provoking. I am looking forward to seeing your product; I would like to learn more about this topic myself.
As Catherine suggested, Steve Earle's album Trancendental Blues is great! I live in Austin and get to hear him on the radio daily. I love KGSR; it is the best radio station, ever! If you like Steve Earle, check out Guy Forsyth, Robert Earle Keene, Rodney Crowell, and James McMurtry.
As Catherine suggested, Steve Earle's album Trancendental Blues is great! I live in Austin and get to hear him on the radio daily. I love KGSR; it is the best radio station, ever! If you like Steve Earle, check out Guy Forsyth, Robert Earle Keene, Rodney Crowell, and James McMurtry.
For a comparison of your topic and mine, I brought up www.dictionary.com and found:
tran•scen•den•tal•ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trnsn-dntl-zm)
n.
A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
AND
mind•ful ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mndfl)
adj.
Attentive; heedful:
While they seem to be so different, one a complex theological movement, one a simple adjective, they obviously go together if you look at "mindful" in the bigger sense. Jon Kabat-Zinn defines Mindfulness as, "Paying attention in a particular way;
On purpose,
in the present moment, and
nonjudgmentally."
It seems that to be part of the transcendental movement you would have to be paying attention, on purpose, of a higher plane of existence that transcends the common, mundane physical realm.
I look forward to our student talk! I am sure we will emerge spiritually enlightened and ever mindful!
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tran•scen•den•tal•ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trnsn-dntl-zm)
n.
A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
AND
mind•ful ( P ) Pronunciation Key (mndfl)
adj.
Attentive; heedful:
While they seem to be so different, one a complex theological movement, one a simple adjective, they obviously go together if you look at "mindful" in the bigger sense. Jon Kabat-Zinn defines Mindfulness as, "Paying attention in a particular way;
On purpose,
in the present moment, and
nonjudgmentally."
It seems that to be part of the transcendental movement you would have to be paying attention, on purpose, of a higher plane of existence that transcends the common, mundane physical realm.
I look forward to our student talk! I am sure we will emerge spiritually enlightened and ever mindful!
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