Week 4 EOC: Death Race Jeopardy

So what is Death Race Jeopardy? Death Race Jeopardy was a game we played in class tonight using the jeopardy games we created last week. We broke into team and played three different stages of the game. Each stage of the game we switched teams around and made smaller groups each time. The final game was the death race match in which we all got to gamble on the final outcome before the game started, the ending result was that we all got bonus points to put towards our midterm grades. Having studied before hand and then with the game I feel better prepared for the midterm, even if the competitiveness of the game withdrew some of the study reinforcement, At least for me that is. I think overall this game benefited those who did not complete the assignment and didn’t previously study as well. Some of the terms used in people games were things like misuse of patent, teach the invention, and world intellectual property organization. I enjoy when teacher use different or unconventional ways to teach student things that otherwise would bore you out of your mind. I mean there are literally 120 plus pages of definitions in the chapter we are studying for the midterm. So having to spend the time to read through the terms to find ones we wanted to use in our games was a great and fun way to learn many of the definitions and to learn a few new things about patents.

Week 3 EOC: Jeopordy - challenges and opportunities

This week’s assignment is to build our own version of the game jeopardy or at least design the questions for the game using the 120 pages of definitions from the book. This is a way for us to not only learn the definitions but teach others definitions’ as well. In some ways this will be a good teaching method for those who are able to read and retain what they learn, it will also benefit those who are visual learners. In other classes where I’ve seen this type of thing used most people did benefit from it but in my opinion you learn very little long term outside the terms or definitions you research on your own. On the other hand it is a great way to involve everyone and try and get everyone to study the definitions in the book, most people would not study these definitions the way they should otherwise. Besides that it turns a rather boring subject into a fun interactive way to teach and learn the subject. The hardest part of the whole process the whole game design is writing the terms that you want to use so that others can answer the questions. I started designing my categories by trying to find definitions I could reword fairly easily which are turning out to be harder than I first imagined. Some of the things you think will be the easy things to define like acronyms are not as easy to do after all, besides that looking around it looks like a few other people were thinking the same thing. Not wanting to do the same thing as anyone else, which will probably be nearly impossible in a class this size, I’m off to greater learning and defining as I create my masterpiece.

Week 2 EOC : What I think of lawyers

What I think of lawyers is that the majority of them are only out to help those who they can make the most money off of, granted there are a few that are honest hard working individuals who do genuinely care for the people they work with. I think that most lawyers become what they are by the cases they work on. Some are not out to earn a million dollars or become famous for what they do, others seem to only want to be recognized for the cases they win. Theses lawyers will carefully hand pick the people they will work with so that they can maximize the money they make. I recently went through bankruptcy this last year and the lawyer we used was all too happy to take our money and file our claim. Once our case was finalized the lawyer we were using did not feel the need to help us or even pass on important information that we needed having to do with our mortgage company. Needless to say our mortgage company nearly foreclosed on our house and we ended up having to pay a lot of extra money to keep from going to court over the whole thing. So some types of lawyers I really do not like and have very strong feelings (in the negative) about, while others like a few of my friends who are lawyers I do think very highly of. In my opinion I think it comes down to the type of law that the lawyer practices and about their personal integrity. Most lawyers forget about the integrity part after the first few years of their practice. The special ones, and yes there are a few of them out there, never forget about their integrity and still manage to have a very successful career.

Week 1 EOC: My Voice

I am a freelance photographer who specializes in landscape, nature and life's little moments. I am also in the process of starting a studio to be able to shoot portraits, still life, food, and a variety of other things in a controlled environment. I have also shot weddings and other events. My passion for photography started at a young age watching programs like National Geographic and reading the magazines, or looking at all the photographs. I also grew up in the outdoors and have a passion for preserving the outdoors for others to see and admire as well. It is my goal to one day work for National Geographic.  A photograph documents a moment in time, that moment can be something like a couple’s wedding or a never before seen animal or plant. As a photographer my goal is to help others see things in nature or themselves in a way they have not been able to before. As a freelance photographer I plan on working for National Geographic and when I’m not traveling the world I will be working for myself in my own studio.