What Matters: Final Presentation

PLN: Week 13- Post 26

I read a recent article titled "U.S. WNT Training Camp Update" and in this article it talks about how The U.S. Women’s National Team hit the field on the evening of Saturday, Dec. 8 for the first practice session of a five-day mini-camp, the first training under new head coach Pia Sundhage, who addressed the team for the first time in a meeting prior to departure to The Home Depot Center. The first practice under Sundhage was a 90-minute training, as the players got their legs back under them after the month layoff since the end of the Women’s World Cup and the three-match post-WWC tour vs. Mexico.

This article relates to me because as a young soccer player I look up to the girls on the WNT and it is so cool to see that what I go through is not as hard as what they go through as players for the U.S. and every single girl on that team is such an inspiration to me and hundreds of other young girl soccer players.

This also relates to the world because many people watched as the WNT took the 3rd place medal in the Women's World Cup in China. Also the world is looking forward to seeing this team up and running again, under the coaching of Sundhage.

PLN: Week 13- Post 25

I read a recent article titled "Pocket texting and Open Phone Tests", written by Will Richardson and in this article it talks about a 14-year-old South Korean boy who is very technology savvy. He has been making his cell phone play a very important role in his education. He has gotten so good at sending text messages that he doesn't even need to look at his phone to compose an entire text message and hit send. He says this has become especially useful when he needs to send a text message during class.

The first thing Insoo does after Hakwon [his school] is, of course, turn on
the PC. Insoo has a difficult math problem as homework. He posts it up on
Naver Knowledge iN, a popular online Q&A service with some 70 million
entries. Within about 10 minutes of posting, someone chimes in with a good
answer, and Insoo awards him with some “Knowledge Power” points —
knowledge-based economy in action among 14-year-olds.

This article relates to me because I am a student and sometimes i find a problem hard on my homework and it would be nice to have a Q&A resource like this to help me when I get stuck. I find it interesting that Insoo has trained himself to be able to text without even looking at his phone, and it would be nice if I knew how to do that. (Hehe) We do have online resources available such as Google and Wikipedia, but i do think it would be nice to have a more specific Q&A resource.

This also relates to the world in that our technology is being used day in and day out and with all of the resources out there I think many students would benefit from such a thing as this.

PLN: Week 12- Post 24

I read a recent article titled "It Takes a Whole Village (or High School)" and this article was written by Karl Fisch. In this article Karl talks about the Make a Difference week that Heritage High School recently had. During this week Heritage hosted a visit from Ishmael Beah who wrote the book A Long Way Gone and in his book he talks about his experiences as a child soldier. Part of the welcome given by Heritage was the presentation of a video which showed the effort the students had put forth toward M.A.D. Week. Heritage raised over $14,000 to help the children in Sierra Leone, and one of their students delivered the aid in person. (You can view the powerful video they made by following the link)

This article relates to me because as a student here at Arapahoe we have a huge rivalry between Heritage and it was hard to see them work so hard to make a difference because we don't really like them (which goes along with the rivalry of course), sure it was hard to see them in this light, but it was also refreshing to see them want to help others who are less fortunate.

This article also relates to the world because there are so many people around the world who need our help and who are not as fortunate as we are here in a free country and this is our time to reach out an help like Heritage did. From personal experience, you get such an awesome feeling helping others so whats stopping us? This close to the holidays there are so many ways for us to help others and this is our time!

PLN Presentation: Reflection 2

I have just finished my second presentation in discussing my PLN entries. I feel like I did a pretty good job on my presentation; however I feel like I did better on my first presentation. In The beginning of my second presentation I felt very comfortable and I feel like I summarized my entries well, but toward the end of my presentation I kind of lost eye contact and I read more rather than speaking to my audience. From my presentation I have gathered a few things to work of for next time, those things are more eye contact, slowing down as I speak, and not reading from my notes.

PLN: Week 12- Post 23

I read a recent article titled "U.S. U-15 Girls' Defeat Chile U-16s in First Match at USYS ODP Thanksgiving Interregional". In this article it talks about how the Under 15 U.S. girls beat Chile's Under 16 girls' in the opening match during the U.S. youth Soccer Thanksgiving Interregional Tournament on November 19 at Coral Glades High School. The score of the match was 3-1 and for the U.S. Natalia Ledezma figured in all three of the goals for the U.S. The U.S. scored in the 13th minute off a cross from Ledezma from the right wing as forward Devin Marshall poked the ball past the Chile goalkeeper. Chile tied the match on a penalty kick in the 26th minute, but the Americans scored just after halftime when Olivia Schultz followed up a rebound off a shot from Ledezma and slid to knock the ball into the net. Ledezma finished off the game in the 68th minute, launching a free kick into the upper left corner of the goal.

This post is very interesting to me because I am very interested in U.S. soccer and soccer throughout the world and to hear about girls who are only one year older than me playing for our country makes me realize that it is possible and that if I work at it, I too can potentially play for our country and represent the female athletes my age.

Also this post relates to the world because these girls who play such an incredible level of the beautiful game of soccer are huge role models for many younger girls out there. I hope that the people of the world realize how hard these girls work and can support what they do.