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Technology

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Hold On A Second Sir My Connection's A Little Ruff Funny Technology Meme Image click here for link to photo Technology... Something I have a love/hate relationship with. If I had it my way I would have little to do with it, but as most things go in this life I don't get my way and society keeps becoming ever more inter-tangled with technologies for every part of his or her day. Anyway, to get off my soap box now I have been introduced to many of the formats we are using such as Canvas, Cheezburger, Pintrest, ext. I have not however until now been introduced to the PBworks page but I am growing very fond of it the more I use it. I love how interactive it is and easy of use. I am already upping my "tech-savviness" by becoming a blogger so I guess the rest of this semester I would just like to continue in growing that.

Time Strategies: Wait that due date is when?!

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The thing we can not buy and seem to never have enough of, time. It seems that there is never enough Photo showing time is short Click here for link to photo  time in the day, week, month, year, or lifetime. One way to keep from getting overwhelmed by this life and load it bears is to implement good time management strategies in ones life. This is much easier said than done I know for a fact. I like to think of "wasting" time having much to do with the everyday addictions of life. We all have something we are addicted to and get in the way of plans or schedules we have. Things that we will prioritize before anything else. Much like smoking, it is hard to put aside our addictions and get on track with what we need to do for the day, week, month, year, and so on so we stay on track for our goals. An article I really felt was something I try to use in my life has to do with just starting the event one has in mind to accomplish. This I believe is 80 percent of the b...

What to Expect for Assignments

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Extra Credit meme I created via meme generator. link here From taking the Myth and Folklore class last semester, I have high expectations for all the assignments on the list. I know that they will all be good options to choose from and I love that there is so much opportunity to succeed such as extra credit and other make up assignments. I enjoyed all the reading assignments and storytelling from last semester so I really look forward to that!

Intorduction to Small Town Oklahoman

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Hey! I'm Kasey Gill and I guess your here to read a little bit about myself. Well, I'm sorry but get prepared to be bored. Just kidding, my life isn't all that bad to talk about. I was been born and raised in the semi-small town of El Reno, Oklahoma, some 25 miles or so west of the Oklahoma City. Personal photo of an El Reno sunset I went to El Reno High School of course where, like most of us I'm sure had some good days and some bad days but always made the most of the days getting into trouble and making friends. During my four years there I began to fall in love with the thoughts and abilities of all things that science can offer the world. This started the basis of my higher level learning and future goals. As you could probably guess by the last statement I am in the Arts and Science's college majoring in Biology. I am a senior pre-med student and will be graduating in May (Thank the good Lord above). I have hopes of getting into the OUHSC medical program ...

Growth Mindset: A Refresher on the Basics

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Once again I get to delve into the topic of growth mindset. This class is a great way to implement the ideals that are proposed by growth mindset and then hopefully carry them over to other challenges in life. I decided to do a little refresher on the basis of growth mindset to help me get back to the place I was at the end of last semester. I watched the two videos by Carol Dweck. I really feel like this is something that education as a whole should look into. Challenge is something that is needed to further higher education. This is much like a conversation I had with a professor a few years ago. In todays society everyone must have an "A" in a class or they feel like it is not good enough when in fact a grade of "A" should be thought of as extraordinary. My professor said that in her education day most all kids were getting "C" or "B" grades and that was average or good and an "A" was rare. Are we getting to where grades are so infla...

My favorite storybooks from past indian epics

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I chose to use this image from Ali's story found at  Flicker because  it is a tornado near Cordell and I have friends near there. The first story book that came across my screen actually really interested me so I went ahead and checked it out a little more in depth. It was composed by Ali and is titled "Stories of the Wild West". Reading the introduction I was quickly grabbed by the author. The way it was written in first person, spoken by Sheriff Vishnu, really gave an interesting side to the storybook. This allowed the reader to give the Sheriff his or her own interpretation of the Sheriff like the voice and how he spoke. I also liked how certain words were used and the dialect of the story. This made it really seem like it was being told by an old time cowboy. The layout of the storybook was very nice, giving a good amount of visual aids for the reader, which were also nice. If you would like to read the full storybook you can find it here . The second ...

My favorite place to be

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a classic mustang logo found at ford performance.com Taking Myth and Folklore last year I was very tempted to go ahead an copy what my favorite place was from that post and put it here. That post was about my love for the lake and how it had shaped me since I was a boy. Even though it is my favorite place to be in the whole world, I thought I might share another place I always enjoy. This isn't a place that you can find on a map (well at least not the same place on the map at different times). You can't put an address on it. There is only room for one here. The place I am talking about is my car. It was a high school boys dream and my reality. It began with a classic mustang, a boy with the desire to make old things new again, and a father that was very patient and was willing to pass his knowledge of cars onto his son. It may have taken my whole high school career to make what many thought was an old junker new again, but in my mind it was all time well spent. When I g...