RWLD - What is it?

Photo Credit: "4th of July Fireworks at Miller Outdoor Theater," 07/04/2009,  AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker

Welcome to Mr. Lammers' World Humanities class. Periodically this site will be updated to include information that we use in class such as notes from the smart board, handouts, reading assignments, or links to information that will be helpful to you for completing assignments. Please look at this space on a regular basis.


We will use a format called RWLD - Readings, Watchings, Listenings and Doings. During the term, you will be (of course) doing a lot of reading, most of which will come from our textbook. We will also include films, short videos, and other visual media to watch, podcasts, interviews and recordings to listen to, and projects and activities to do and write about.


My goal for the RWLD is not to necessarily to introduce new information that you won't get in class, but to provide some additional material that will accentuate what we do in class. It will also be a place you can go to get notes or handouts that we covered in class, to view or review presentations that we use in class, and perhaps a few surprise items that relate to the material that we're studying but not necessarily required reading/watching/listening/or doing. 


Technically this is a blog site, but we'll treat it as a website. If you have a Google account, you can link to or follow this site easily; you can also use an RSS link to your email, blog or website to this site. You can post comments to the site - even ask questions if you wish - but just remember that it is a public site, and the guidelines for acceptable student behavior apply. This is a tool to help you as students. Comments/questions will be cleared on a regular basis and either answered in class or replied to via email (assuming you provide me with an email address you access on a regular basis)


It is my hope that RWLDs will be updated either on Friday or the following Monday - but they will likely be edited as the week goes along. I will let your class know when this happens, and if anything needs clarifying.


Here is your first watching for the term: legendary college basketball coach John Wooden talks about what true success is - some food for thought as you start the new school year. See you in class!!




Lammers

NOTES/SLIDES FROM CLASS:
Tuesday, August 31st

Wednesday, September 1st

Thursday, September 2nd


Friday, September 3rd:

Game developer Jane McGonigal speaks at a TED Talks conference in 2010 regarding the role of gamers in learning heroic characteristics that can be applied to solving pressing world issues. Listen for her use of the word "epic" and how she applies it in her talk.



Links to the games referenced in Jane McGonigal's video
World Without Oil
Evoke

Videos related to themes, motifs or symbols studied in class this week:
Artist and photographer Dana Gluckstein speaks about different kind of quest:




Adam Savage from the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters series describes how his quest to acquire one thing led him on another quest for something entirely different. Listen carefully to his final comment.