Creativity
For my C posts, see posts tagged Creativity. My activities included writing (the internet, school magazine), a journalistic workshop, the MUN conference (the Human Rights council), working for the school information agency, Spanish classes, and co-creating workshops.
Creativity: Organisational Meeting on the Visit of the Jewish Youth
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 @ 12:26 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of action: organisational meeting related to the matter of the forthcoming visit of the Jewish youth from Israel
Today we gathered to get the details about the next-week visit. I got reminded where to take the food from, to remember about distributing paper and writing utensils, at what time, and told I could go for a walk in the city Old Town if I wanted.
Today we gathered to get the details about the next-week visit. I got reminded where to take the food from, to remember about distributing paper and writing utensils, at what time, and told I could go for a walk in the city Old Town if I wanted.
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Creativity: Organisational Meeting on the Visit of the Jewish Youth
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 @ 4:47 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 2 h
Type of action: organisational meeting related to the matter of the forthcoming visit of the Jewish youth from Israel
On today's meeting my friend Mateusz has explained our concept of the scenario and we were given our tasks. Mine is to prepare a booklet to send our guests on the topic, and I've got some materials in their language to be scanned and then the booklet to be completed.
On today's meeting my friend Mateusz has explained our concept of the scenario and we were given our tasks. Mine is to prepare a booklet to send our guests on the topic, and I've got some materials in their language to be scanned and then the booklet to be completed.
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Creativity: Writing the Scenario
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 @ 1:33 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 2 h
Type of action: writing a scenario of the workshop for the Jewish youth
Today I met with my friend Mateusz to write a scenario of the workshop, we made outlines of every workshop, a list of ideas for activities for each group, and planned it in the period of time. It will be presented to our supervisor tomorrow. In my opinion, the work was successful as it went quickly and we were complaisant.
Today I met with my friend Mateusz to write a scenario of the workshop, we made outlines of every workshop, a list of ideas for activities for each group, and planned it in the period of time. It will be presented to our supervisor tomorrow. In my opinion, the work was successful as it went quickly and we were complaisant.
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Creativity: Organisational Meeting on the Visit of the Jewish Youth
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 @ 11:45 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1 h
Type of action: organisational meeting related to the matter of the forthcoming visit of the Jewish youth from Israel
CAS proposal form
CAS proposal form
Today I took part in the meeting related to the visit of the Jewish youth from Netanya, Israel, in my school on 6th and 7th September. I was informed about the whole route of their trip, including the most important monuments of my city, the jeshiva and the camp of Majdanek. The plan of my supervisor is to prepare a set of workshops for guests and selected students of my school as well, and I got assigned to write the scenario of these together with my friend Mateusz. My plans for now is to go through the materials we were provided, make notes on these and set a date of a meeting with M. during which we could prepare the work and send to Mr Mielecki.
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Creativity: Summary of Working on a School Information Agency
Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 3:46 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 2 h
Type of activity: writing articles on the news in the school community
Today, as the school year is finally over, I think I can sum up working in the SAI (Szkolna Agencja Informacyjna, School Information Agency.) As planned, that activity helped me in developing my style of writing. In the past I used to have problems with being concise and it took me a lot of time to go over it. Now it was an even more advanced exercise as I had to present a maximum information in a limited number of sentences. Moreover, as I talked e.g. with the vice-headmaster to obtain the comment, I could practice my abillity of asking precise questions and selecting the pieces most important for what I had been describing in the current moment. I have written articles on the mini-marathon of Amnesty International, the goodbye party of the final year students, sucesses of students in the philosophy and Spanish competition, Watch Docs, travelling fest of documentary films, relation on TriMUN and the renovation of school. Articles [Polish] available here.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 9:59 AM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
Today I focused on the text on hippies called Sociedad queda. It gives a detailed account on how the subculture was formed. What I liked about it, except for a clear reference to subculture which is one of my interests, is was rather neutral. Most of the texts tend to idealise or show hippies as totally negative. My opinion is more in the middle, and so was of the author. An article had some sophisticated vocabulary related to sociology, hence reading it was quite complicated, but useful.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 @ 10:48 AM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
Today I focused on Spanish culture. The text was related to corrida, the kind of an activity unique to Spain. The description included information on people specific for it, the whole route of the event etc. It was followed by the discussion on the topic which I find the most beneficial as my teacher is familiar saw the corrida live and the case of ethics on animals vs. a long-lasting tradition that is an integral part of culture could be considered. I found that class both interesting from a somehow anthropological point of view, as well as simply entertaining as it was different from texts and grammar exercises.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Thursday, April 7, 2011 @ 8:23 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
Grammar practice - the subject of today's lesson was gradación de adjetivos, gradation of adjectives, both regular and irregular. Even though it was quite a basic knowledge, I think it was useful to revise it.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 8:29 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
During today's class I worked on a text about Coco Chanel, described as modista rebelde (a rebel modiste). I quite liked the lesson because it gave me an opportunity to practice vocabulary used in the description of a person and phrases used to create a concise biography. Moreover, a case described is of a well-known personality that is undoubtly worth a mention so some knowledge about her is interesting from a more popcultural point, too, which fits my interests.
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
During today's class I worked on a text about Coco Chanel, described as modista rebelde (a rebel modiste). I quite liked the lesson because it gave me an opportunity to practice vocabulary used in the description of a person and phrases used to create a concise biography. Moreover, a case described is of a well-known personality that is undoubtly worth a mention so some knowledge about her is interesting from a more popcultural point, too, which fits my interests.
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Creativity: MUN Conference, day 1 and 2
Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 10:34 AM
Area: Service
Type of activity: MUN conference
CAS proposal form
MUN conference I am attending now is the first thing of that type I am doing in my life and, in spite of my initial fear that my knowledge, familiarity with the rules and English may be not sufficient, I see myself as rather well-prepared. As for now, the event seems an opportunity more to meet new people rather than widen the information background on the topic, but observing other people, their differences both as representing different countries, but also different styles of speaking, characters and attitudes, is a stimulating, interesting experience.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Thursday, March 10, 2011 @ 11:12 AM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
Laura Hormigón y Óscar Torrado is a text about the pair of ballet dancers from Bercelona and Madrid. It is a real example taken from the Spanish newspaper so it contains some useful vocabulary used in everyday life. I enjoyed it because it gave some kind of insight to the part of art I am not really familiar with. Moreover, ballet got very popular lately due to the success of a film The Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky, but is said to present a bit stereotypical view on the topic. At the same time, an article, as it has parts of interviews with the aforementioned dancers who comment on the nature of their work, shows it interestingly and seems more reliable than the movie.
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Creativity: Journalistic Workshop
Monday, February 28, 2011 @ 10:53 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 5 h
Today I have taken part in a journalistic workshop that was going to prepare me for the next work I plan accomplishing as one of CAS activities, i.e. writing articles with the most urgent news from the school community for a special webpage (CAS proposal form for that activity is available here.) The workshop, being held by a professional journalist, consisted of the most essential information. Me and a group of other girls discussed the qualities a good reporter should have, the functions of members of an editorial stuff, and the features of the most common written forms, including a column, a reportage, and an interview.
Even though at first I felt a bit unsteadily due to the fact I expected to spend the workshop with more people and, what is more important, with one of my classmates with whom I have already collaborated on the school magazine Playground, the whole experience turned out to be really helpful. I especially enjoyed the part in which I was told to go for a walk around school and come back with ideas for articles. I, surprisingly for me myself, came back with news about decorating classes, concert advertised in our school and an international Maths competition. I felt brought up when I have noticed that something is happening in my school, and really during an ordinary lunch break when I would expect the coming test the most exciting information to hear.
It was a very stimulating time, both in terms of some kind of formal, theoretical preparation, as well as inspiring to look for some interesting thoughts around on my own.
Even though at first I felt a bit unsteadily due to the fact I expected to spend the workshop with more people and, what is more important, with one of my classmates with whom I have already collaborated on the school magazine Playground, the whole experience turned out to be really helpful. I especially enjoyed the part in which I was told to go for a walk around school and come back with ideas for articles. I, surprisingly for me myself, came back with news about decorating classes, concert advertised in our school and an international Maths competition. I felt brought up when I have noticed that something is happening in my school, and really during an ordinary lunch break when I would expect the coming test the most exciting information to hear.
It was a very stimulating time, both in terms of some kind of formal, theoretical preparation, as well as inspiring to look for some interesting thoughts around on my own.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Thursday, February 17, 2011 @ 6:55 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
Today I focused on practicing the abilities related with describing people. What I liked was the fact that the knowledge was then checked by a little game. Everyone was supposed to write about a famous person and the others had to guess who is meant. It was a good exercise to practice pronunciation.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Thursday, February 10, 2011 @ 11:02 AM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
During today's classes I have worked on some kind of everyday vocabulary as the continuatation of what I started on Tuesday. My area of interest was developing a recipe for el pescado en su jugo, i.e. the octopus with sauce. Thanks to that activity I managed to get more familiar with the glossary related to verbs describing the activities in the kitchen.
Even though that work wasn't particularly demanding, I think it helped me to revise some useful vocabulary.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 @ 11:26 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type: learning Spanish
Today's lesson was a difficult, yet one of the most interesing in the whole year. I tried to read a Spanish dream-book with an introduction of psychological and neurobiological explanation of dreaming. It both fits my other classes and my interests as a future psychologist. I tried to interpret my dream which, due to the fact it was so vague, did not really end with success but at least I noted some vocabulary on dreaming and imagination.
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Creativity: Writing an Article for a School Magazine
Sunday, December 12, 2010 @ 6:40 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 7 h
Type of activity: writing an article about Etgar Keret's Kneller's Happy Campers for the school magazine Playground
Writing an article for the magazine was, to some extent, repeating the problem I have already suffered when preparing my text about the band Phoenix i.e. not having an appropriate idea for the text. The editor of the cultural part of the magazine, Mateusz Kusio, wanted me to write about my favourite writer, Vladimir Nabokov but it took me a lot of time to see I don't really feel this subject. That is why I prepared a short passage about the story that, even though I read it around June, still left me impressed.
I hope that this activity is going to benefit others in a way the book itself influenced me: wanting to go deeper into Etgar Keret's literature I found witty, intelligent, and thought-evoking. It touches the problem of suicide, love and lack of understanding, and I think many people could find it interesting but many could not hear about him. I believe I managed to show Keret well and catch people's attention like I wanted. To find this out, I have to wait for the publicaton of the magazine.
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Creativity: Preparing the Presentation About Intellectual Property
Saturday, December 11, 2010 @ 5:30 AM
Area: Creativity
Time: 5 h
Type of activity: preparing the presentation about intellectual property
On November, 10 I was sent an e-mail by my CAS coordinator, Mrs B. Ostrowska, about the possibility to take part in the organisation of the campaign about the intellectual property. Due to the fact I am quite interested in the subject, especially in terms of music and photographs, tonnes of which I listen to/watch every day on the internet, I thought I could get involved.
When I discussed the whole idea with my coordinator, it turned out that the articles I had could be useful in the planned IT class about the intellectual property (downloading music legally, using somebody else's files etc.)
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Examples of links.
I also found three films I thought could be a good supplement of the whole action. Good Copy Bad Copy is a document created by one of my favourite artists, a musician Gregg Michael Gillis who creates mushups (songs made of several samples from different pieces of music), and his work, even though original and appeciated, brings controversy on legality. GCBC, as well as the three other films, are available for free so I just downloaded every and the Polish subtitles which I eventually had to proofread. The only problem with the movie was that it already had English subtitles so I went up with looking for something else.
I particularly liked RiP!: A Remix Manifesto but there were no Polish subtitles to it available and I did not have enough time to prepare one.
At first I also thought of Steal This Film because it covered the problem since the development of printing (sic!) but the second half turned out to be really one-sided and encouraging not to care about the legal aspects too much. That is why, in the end, GCBC became a final choice, with two language versions combined.
Watching Steal This Film and going through its subtitles.
The presentation of the film turned out to be quite successful and I hope that people found a problem more clear and more important than at the beginning. If I could change anything in a way of working, I would plan everything more carefully, to find more time and not to remain undecided while I could actually spend that time on developing the campaign.
I particularly liked RiP!: A Remix Manifesto but there were no Polish subtitles to it available and I did not have enough time to prepare one.
At first I also thought of Steal This Film because it covered the problem since the development of printing (sic!) but the second half turned out to be really one-sided and encouraging not to care about the legal aspects too much. That is why, in the end, GCBC became a final choice, with two language versions combined.
Watching Steal This Film and going through its subtitles.
The presentation of the film turned out to be quite successful and I hope that people found a problem more clear and more important than at the beginning. If I could change anything in a way of working, I would plan everything more carefully, to find more time and not to remain undecided while I could actually spend that time on developing the campaign.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Thursday, December 2, 2010 @ 8:26 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: learning Spanish
I devoted the classes today to work on my own written account on the structure of Spanish education as there are some subtle differences between the two in Poland and Spain. It also was a sufficient revision of the present tenses that were used in the description.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 @ 5:54 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: practicing Spanish
Today's class was on a controversial topic of the organisation Opus Dei. I was a bit disappointed with the article I analysed as it focused on the history and the beginnings of OD, and was not really a basis of for any discussion or a new way of looking at it. It only was an informational account. At least I managed to note some new vocabulary on the topic.
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Creativity: Spanish Classes
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 @ 4:13 PM
Area: Creativity
Time: 1.5 h
Type of activity: learning Spanish
The subject of today's lesson was Supersticiones, superstitions. There was a discussion on those in Polish culture and a comparison of those from Hispanic one (e.g. in both circles it is popular to be afraid of a number 13, or ladders.) This class was both interesting and difficult as I am not as familiar with Spanish conditionals but my interlocutors helped me. Now I see I would like to practise that grammar material in the near future.
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