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Chances are you've heard the buzz around Regina's newest idea to build a dome as a replacement for an ailing Mosaic Stadium. The plan to build a dome is exciting to some and disconcerting to others. There are certainly pros and cons to constructing a new dome and today we will review some articles to learn about these and to help us form a personal opinion whether a dome is a good idea for Regina.
1)Review the following Leaderpost articles and keep jot notes of the arguments for and against the building of a dome.
2)Develop an opinion and post your thoughts as a blog entry. Your blog entry could be organized like this:
Paragraph 1 - Introduction and brief overview of the issue
Paragraph 2 - The arguments for and against the dome
Paragraph 3 - Your personal opinion
3)Finally, find a classmate who holds the opposite opinion and repectfully disagree with their arguement.
Article posted September 29, 2009 at 08:11 PM GMT0 •
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During Partners at Work (PAWS), students have been learning about Digital Citizenship. We've reviewed some great resources, had some amazing discussions, and we are continuing to develop the skills and knowledge required to live in the digital age.
Each student has had the opportunity to post their very own blog entry in response the following video:
Please take a few minutes to read the blog entries and feel free to post a comment or two.
Mr. V
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Article posted December 2, 2008 at 03:39 PM GMT0 •
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The types of leisure activities in which a culture engages are based on the culture's geographical location and resources. Think about your culture in terms of what is available to you as land, climate, and resources. What kinds of recreational activities are afforded by your culture's region? Does your culture have a national sport?
On your land, design any objects or structures to be used for recreation or socializing.
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Article posted December 1, 2008 at 07:20 PM GMT0 •
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The religious pattern of a culture are beliefs, which help people to order their world. Religion is an organized group of ideas about the power of creation. Religion explains the reasons for life-why people are born and why they die. It also teaches what kind of human behaviour is and is not acceptable.
Using the following questions to guide you, research the religious patterns of your culture.
1. What is the dominant religion of your culture?
2. Who is the religion's god(s)?
3. How do the people of the religion honour this god?
4. What do they call their sacred teaching s and writings?
5. List some of the religion's special days, times, or seasons.
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All patterns educate their people. They teach them the language that people speak, and the knowledge, skills, and behaviours that they need in order to fit into their culture. These patterns vary from culture to culture as do the kinds of knowledge that people in the culture need.
Please research the educational patterns of your culture. Let the following questions guide your research:
What skills and knowledge are needed to be a contributing member of your culture?
How are the skills and knowledge taught within your culture?
How are these skills connected to your culture's values and resources?
Is learning formal, informal, or both? Why?
Where and when does learning take place?
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What styles of art are common to your culture?
Does art play a role in your economy? How?
What materials are used to create the art? How are these materials obtained?
What symbols are common to your culture? Do they appear in art form?
Using Google Images, see if you can locate some examples of art from your culture. Save the image as a jpeg and upload to TSL.
You will also need to use Gimp to create your piece of cultural visual art. Upload this image to TSL and frame it.
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Article posted November 6, 2008 at 03:34 PM GMT0 •
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Political patterns are the ways in which people make decisions and settle their differences. In a cultural group political patterns enable group decisions to take place. This ability to decide about community goals is necessary so that the decisions of individuals do not affect other people in the community in a negative way.
Consider the following:
Which political system is used in the culture?
How are decisions made and differences settled?
Who holds the authority in your culture?
Please submit your research and a brief description of how you will use TSL to represent your findings.
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Article posted November 5, 2008 at 07:58 PM GMT0 •
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Economic patterns describe the way cultures organize themselves to meet their needs and wants.
Complete pages 13-18 in your student handout. Now you can begin to use resources to research the economic patterns of your chosen culture. The following guiding questions will assist you in your research:
How are physical needs, such as food and shelter met?
Is your culture industrialized? Non- industrial?
What are the culture's main exports and resources?
Who are the main trading partners?
How are goods produced?
Please submit your research and a brief description of how you will use TSL to represent your findings.
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Article posted October 26, 2008 at 06:10 AM GMT0 •
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Our culture unit, taught within Teen Second Life, is up and running. To kick things off students activated prior knowledge and created what will be the first of several iterations of a culture concept map.
