Science of Happiness: Week 2Can't view the PDF? Here's the Google Doc Link! Extra Resources/Spicyncess!A lot of you have expressed interest in learning more about mental health this year. Here are some more contemporary resources for you to explore. If you'd like to use these for one of your two articles, I am fine with that! 1. Johann Hari TED TalkIn a moving talk, journalist Johann Hari shares fresh insights on the causes of depression and anxiety from experts around the world -- as well as some exciting emerging solutions. "If you're depressed or anxious, you're not weak and you're not crazy -- you're a human being with unmet needs," Hari says. 2. Viktor Frankl Interview and AudiobookIn this 1963 TV interview Viktor Frankl, author of "Man´s Search for Meaning" describes the basics of his meaning-centered psychotherapy also known as Logotherapy and Existential Analysis- the first in the field of resource-oriented, existential-, or positive psychology. Frankl survived the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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The Science of Happiness Project Begins TODAY!This will take us all the way to the end of the school year! Details in the document below! Can't load the PDF file? Try the Google Doc Link!
1) Office Hours: 11am-12pm2) Turn in your transcripts and interviews today!Thank you kindly! 3) Oral History ReflectionYou are allowed to record a video, record audio, or write your responses to the reflection questions below. If you write, please use this link to complete your answers! Email me audio and video! Thanks!
1. Describe how you prepared for and recorded your interview. What technology in the interview did you use and was it effective? 2. Emotionally, what did it feel like to conduct your interview? How did those feelings shift throughout the interview? 3. What are 3 key takeaways from your interview that you think are interesting? What did you notice about your subject? Project Work DayFinish up your interviews and transcripts. Email me both when you're done! We'll have a brief reflection assignment tomorrow and then roll out our next project Wednesday!
If you're done already, congratulations and thank you!! Go sit in the sun! Wednesday Meeting RecapPRE-INTERVIEW WORK: 1. Make sure you have scheduled an interview for this week. The interview should run for 20-30 minutes. If it goes longer, that's okay, but know that you need to transcribe the interview later... 2. Practice conducting your interview using two cellphones (one on speakerphone, one recording.) If you would like to use Zoom or Google Meet, that's okay, as well. Contact Stephen if you run into a problem practicing this. 3. Please make sure you have a list of around 20 refined questions for the interview. Outside of biographical questions at the beginnnig, make sure your questions are open-ended (questions that start with "how," "what," or "tell me about..." Remember, the subject the of the interview is your subjects experience with COVIID-19. -See Za's Questions (and, shoot, feel free to steal some 'em...) DURING THE INTERVIEW: 1) Please make sure your first question asks the participant: -Their full name -The date -Their location 2) Be present, respectful, and curious. Your recording environment should be as quiet as possible. Don't be afraid to ask the participant if it's possible for them to move to a more quiet location if things get loud on their end! 3) Don't be afraid to go off script a little. If you hear something you'd like to know more about, ask them to tell you more! Don't be a slave to your script if you feel things are getting interesting (about COVID 19 experience.) 4) Please make sure your last question asks the participant for permission to share their work with the public and Fort Lewis College. AFTER THE INTERVIEW: 1) BACK UP YOUR INTERVIEW IMMEDIATELY! Send it to your email as well as your Google Drive. 2) Transcribe the interview using the example below as a model. 3) Fill out the release form and try to get it to your interview subject. If you can't do this safely no, don't worry. We can track them down in a few weeks or later this year. 4) Wait for instructions on how to submit your recording and written transcription to me. These are the two products of this mini-project for you. WHAT YOUR TRANSCRIPTION SHOULD LOOK LIKE: Class Meeting at 12:00pmThe link is live! I'll see you at noon. : )
Greetings! This week, we are going to record, transcribe, and publish interviews of people in our community. We want to better understand how people are responding to the Coronavirus' impact right now. IMPORTANT: I am not asking you to do these in person, but rather by using two cell phones: 1 used as a speakerphone 1 used as the actual audio recording device. If you do not have access to two phones, please contact me! MINI-PROJECT OUTCOME: A) Each student will have created a written transcription of their interview. B) If possible, each student can have an audio/video recorded interview. 1. A Little Context: Why Oral Histories Are Important-Watch this VIDEO from Dr. Z of Concordia about why Oral Histories are important. -Read this brief handout from Baylor University that has their take on why Oral Histories are important. -Write me an email to check in and explain in a short paragraph why Oral Histories are important to researchers. 2. Select A SubjectTo the best of our ability, we want to choose someone to interview that we know, but don't live with. Think of someone's parent or sibling from another family, for example. Interviewing our direct family members is not ideal because of the potential "conflict of interest" according to my friend, Rob, who is working on his PHD in Anthropology. Talk to me if you need help finding a subject. Once you've selected your subject, set up an interview for Wednesday or later in the week! -Ask for 30 minutes of time to interview. Interview's should be in between 30 min.-1 hour. -Set up the time and location. Please, be safe and opt for interviewing using phones. 3. Pre-Interview: Develop Questions-Before the Interview: Watch this VIDEO from the York Region District School Board to get an overview of a normal process would look like. What will be the differences in how we conduct our Oral Histories? -Develop a list of 25 interview questions. If you need help, check this out. -Submit your draft of questions to Stephen as a Google Doc by Wednesday 8:30am. - 4. Class Meeting: 12pm on WednesdayI'll give you the next steps and answer all your questions here. Please make it and let me know via email if you cannot!
Today's Class Meeting, 12pm-1pmIt's Friday! Let's hang out and chat!
We're starting a mini-project Monday, and it's going to be super fun. Check the DP on Monday morning for the low down! Today's Assignment: Due Thursday at MidnightRead the following articles: A Lesson From The Spanish Influenza Colorado's Other Pandemic Tell Us Your Pandemic Stories We have a unique opportunity to share our own stories right now as well as those around us. What's missing from the first two articles you read? One thing stands out to me: voices of the youth.
To start, I would like you to capture your life right now as we are quarantined at home. You can approach this writing assignment however you would like, but the goal is to create an artifact that we can look back on when this all has passed. What was life like before? What is life like now? How have things changed for you thus far? Tell us your daily routine while at home and away from school. You all have particular insights as young people and students that will be invaluable for future historians to look back on. To this end, I'd like you to begin creating a primary source of your own experience with the Coronavirus. This can be as long as you want it to be. There are, simply put, no rules--no TEA paragraphs, for sure. Just put your heart into it. To put it in school language, "In a well developed essay, share your own experience thus far with the Coronavirus." Please submit this to me via email by Thursday night so we can share with other on Friday. I'd like to hold a class meeting on Friday from 12pm-1pm to share our experiences with each other. Eventually, I would like us to do the work of actual historians to collect other peoples' stories from our community so we can be of service to future historians and researchers. I miss you all very much and hope you're doing well. As always, please let me know if there's anything I can do to make this online school experience better for you! I'm just an email away! Sincerely, Stephen |
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