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Survivor Blog #4 Diversity Chapter 4
In this Chapter it goes over Extroverts-Introverts, Judger-Perceivers, Thinkers-Feelers, and more. Extroverts are outgoing and expressive, Introverts are more reversed and private. Thinkers are tasks oriented and feelers are more people oriented. Judgers value organization and structure and Perceivers value flexibility and spontaneity. These are some of the MBTI personality traits.
In episode 4 Julie finds out that her boyfriend is voted off. John was known to be a little prejudice which made people not like him and ended with him off Survivor. She explains that she had to shelter her self and focus on what she was doing and not him. She didn’t allow her first thoughts or feelings come out before she thought about them. This makes her an Introvert for keeping private, and a thinker for being able to control her feelings about her loved one and made a plan about how to stay on the show.
Also on the blue tribe Drew took the incentive to speak up and try to make a trade for the flint (they “lost” before) for some fishing gear they won an episode ago. No one wanted to say anything, even though if it could have been traded it could have helped the tribe greatly. Drew explains this and goes for it. Even though he is turned down he demonstrated some personality traits. He is an Extrovert for speaking up first and for being expressive. He also could be a thinker because he understood that there was a chance they could gain something and went at it at a direct way and was firm about it. These two people demonstrated these personality traits throughout episode four.
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How to Develop Campus Community through Social Media

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jaimiehoffman:

Lots of great ideas!

Originally posted on Josie Ahlquist:

For higher education professionals, many decisions are grounded in building a strong campus community.  How best to offer student services, programming calendars, leadership opportunities, dining hall hours, and the list goes on.  Each segment of campus life leading students to be more integrated and engaged into the campus community.

Because of emerging technologies and innovative methods of communication, the ways in which we build community with each other are changing.  Could it be possible that students can feel a sense of community through online platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram?  In this post I use published research to convey the argument that yes it can, but with only the right strategy for each unique campus.  College campuses have an opportunity to foster a virtual community, one that emulates the traits of the in real life (IRL) experience.

Building a virtual campus community is part of a comprehensive model…

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Social Media: the Key to Online Student Services

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Originally posted on Stuff too big for Twitter….:

vygotskyA few weeks ago Josie Ahlquist wrote a great post on developing campus community through social media. Before you read this, go read that post (it is good). She used published research (thank you!) to make a great argument that the strategic implementation of social networking sites (SNS’s) can indeed lead to a greater sense of community amongst students on campus. For me, though, her post (and the research she references in the post) points to an even bigger idea: That social media is THE key to the successful implementation of student services for online learners.

Let’s start with facts. Technology has permeated nearly every aspect of modern life. Presently, the landscape of higher education may be among those realms changing most rapidly. Increasing financial pressures, easily accessible new forums for content delivery, and more robust infrastructures have all contributed to the ongoing evolution of this environment. The most…

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survivor Blog Post #4

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Episode 5 in Survivor, Blood is Blood, was different than the previous episodes. Relating to our last class meeting we got to see who was the characteristics of each person in the tribe. At first everyone was shocked that Drew was gone, but even more shocked to find out the tribe members where changing. One tribe, Hunahpu , was the tribe were all the single members with their love ones out of the game were put together  with only one couple. Coyopa was the tribe with the ones that were together with their love ones and only one single person. Their next activity was surprising because i thought that Coyopa was going to win since they were together with the person they came with and didn’t have to worry about hurting their feelings. But unfortunately they lost! The winning team was Hunahpu, the team of strangers with no blood or feelings uniting them, just the simple goal of wining. The host even said, “wow there is more communication in the team of strangers than the team of lovers. Well something like that. After the challenge, Baylor and her mom were cooking rice, and Dale was bothered because they kept cooking more rice than they were suppose too. Here You can tell that Dale is a THINKER because he thinks before he acts, along with his daughter Kelly who at the end was the one voted off. John and Jaclyn are the extrovert ones in the tribe because they are the only couple liked and safe from being eliminated. Like Dale said they are the hottest couple on the island. Dale and Missy had problems because Baylor told Missy that Dale has been on her trying to get her out the tribe, but that is only because Baylor tried voting Dale out the first time. Both were fighting for their children. My opinion is that Baylor should had been the one voted out instead of Kelly because she tries to be liked and getting everyone on her side.

Episode 5 Chapter 4

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This episode began with a tribe swap which changed the complexity of the game. The Hunahpu tribe ended up with only one pair of loved ones while the Coyopa tribe only had one individual without a loved one. It seems like the dynamics of the two tribes are beginning to  change causing diversity among the groups. In the Coyopa tribe, Keith seems to be the odd man out making him believe that he might be the one to get voted off the island. The Hunahpu tribe of strangers seemed to be communicating better than the Coyopa tribe of loved ones causing the Hunahpu tribe to win the challenge. Personalities seemed to be definite when Missy used her feelings to decide her actions. For example, after hearing that Dale tried to vote her daughter, Baylor, off the island, she based her actions off of her negative feelings towards Dale. Missy and Baylor then encouraged the other tribe members to vote either Dale or his daughter off the island. The conflict of the diversity within the group also emerged while Missy was making rice for the group. Dale tried to inform Missy to use less of the rice in order to save some rice for future days on the island. Missy then went against Dales orders causing conflict between the two.  Missy’s customs from her previous tribe caused conflict with Dale because he was used to rationing the rice rather than using it all up. In the end, the majority of the Coyopa tribe decided to voted Kelly off the island.

Using Meaningful Comments to Improve Student Writing

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Can you believe it is already Week 10 of the semester? Many of you are likely assigning papers for your students. In this short video, Rachael Jordan, a faculty member on the CI Composition Team, provides a Quick Guide to Commenting on Student Papers. Have you ever wondered how you could more effectively comment on […]

Blog 4 Blood is Blood

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In the episode Blood is Blood there was a bit of a twist. At first, tribe Hunahpu just laughed about their last tribal meeting because they kicked off Drew. Jon started admitting to everyone what Drew was saying about the tribe. Jon  starts to apologize because he does not want to get sent home. Tribe Coyopa had no idea that Drew got sent home. When they all saw that he was sent home, they were all shocked and said that Drew was one of the stronger members. Then the host decided to change things up and switch the teams up. On tribe Hunahpu it was most of the singles except Josh and Reed. And most of the loved ones are on tribe Coyopa except for Keith because his son, Wes, is on the other tribe. Keith kind of feels left out because everyone has their loved one on the tribe and Jaclyn and Jon are constantly all over each other. Coyopa was very happy because all of the food they have but Dale was was monitoring Missy and Baylor. Baylor told her mom that Dale tried voting her off last time, which caused some tension between Missy ( Baylor’s mom) and Dale. Kelley had to talk to her dad to calm him down and tried telling him it was pointless to make it a big deal because then they will try to vote him off first.

While that was happening tribe Hunahpu was kind of struggling. When they got back to their site, they saw how little food they had- which was only 3 days worth of food. Alec was thinking positive about the whole situation, while Jeremy was upset of who was on his tribe. He almost started acting selfish just like Drew and he thinks Alec will get kicked off because he is the same exact as Drew. They were worried that they would lose the immunity challenge because of the amount of food they had, but they ended up winning anyways.

The new tribe Coyopa worked a little better together, the only problems that were going on were between Baylor and Dale. Other than that not that many people in the tribe were talking about each other behind their backs. But when you looked at how tribe Hunahpu was acting, you could really tell that those people were being selfish and just wanted to win the competition already and they would just pick on someone to talk bad about to get voted off. Once again, things work best when the whole group thinks positive and does not point fingers at people. At the end I was kind of surprised that they kicked Kelley off because she was not the one who was really creating any problems, she was just trying to make “peace” with all the tension between Baylor and her father. That one shocked me the most and I am not really sure if I agree with them.. kind of wish they voted Dale off because of his attitude.

We’re a hot mess

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Coyopa- since they voted the strongest guy off the team they thought this would help them with being more positive
Dale thinks he needs to step up more in the group

Hunahpu -Nataly found the flint which amazed the group.
Drew thinks hes a leader when its total opposite with the tribe, they find him to be unmotivated and lazy at times which i agree.

Julie was asked about john being voted off , her response was that she created a shell and wanted to be blind to her bf johns attitude

With the challenge they are playing for campfire food or comfort supplies. it is Jon vs Jacqueline-bf vs gf.
Jacqueline started very strong but Jon caught up, They eventually tied up quickly but Jon/ hunahpu won but Jon and jacqueline embraced and showed no hard feelings which shows a strong connection especially for johns comment towards his gf and how she can handle it.
Jacqueline as well as Drew went to exile island in which Drew actually volunteered which was different because usually no one wants togo to the island.

Hunahpu chose comfort which was long term compared to the food while at the same team Coyopa really needs to pick it up as well as figure out other tactics to become stronger and better as a team.
Jon is somewhat worried about his gf because he is hoping drew will help out at the island and not act like how he does at their camp.
Drew thinks he’s a ladies man but he is not out looking for love.

Drew wants to throw the next immunity challenge because he believes there are snakes in his tribe.

Keith found out Jeremy has an idol and he told everyone.
Jeremy thought they had each others backs but now he thinks Keith is a rat and wants him gone. Soon Keith found an idol in which he’s not going to tell anyone so they think Jeremy has it.
In coyopa, Alec is annoyed with Baylor and is going to call her out on everything she does.
It is time for the immunity challenge while the others come back from the island.
Against loved ones they used a lot of agility such as diving and running up a ramp to dive and obtain rings they will use for a ring toss.
Hunahpu won which has put Coyopa in a pickle. All in disagreement for to vote off it is basically male vs. female , the women decide to vote out a negative aspect towards their group which was drew and the votes were in their favor.
Hopefully this will make them stronger.