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Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:25:00 -0700 ThingLiknk acctual project http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/thingliknk-acctual-project http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/thingliknk-acctual-project

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my thinglink for school

 

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Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:48:00 -0700 Requirement 2 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/requirement-2 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/requirement-2

This is my TED Flip.

My question was should we be broadcasting ourselves to the universe? If there is life on other planets, the probability of them being more advanced is pretty high, and throughout history, what happens when a more advanced civilization comes in contact with a more primitive civilization? The primitive one usually gets concurred and involves a lot of death and destruction, the Conquistadores and Inca for example. So it might be rather dumb of us to broadcasting ourselves.

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Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:11:00 -0700 Requirement 1 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/135967340 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/135967340

I’ve been going to the movies recently and I’ve noticed that almost every movie has to do with war/violence/killing. Now personally, I don’t have a problem with that, it’s just something that I’ve been noticing sitting in the theaters, watching previews. Take the Avengers for instance. I love this movie, it was epic and I want to see it again and again and again, but it’s all about war and carnage. DC universe/comics are all about war and carnage. Next look at the new movie Snow White and the Huntsman=war and carnage, John Carter=war and carnage, Prometheus=war and carnage, Hunger Games=SERIOUS war and carnage. All in all, I see a trend. We like war and carnage. It’s something us humans find entertaining. Why is that? Would we like it less if we lived in an actual war zone? Would we still like it if the avengers didn’t win, if Batman didn’t rise again? Do you need war and carnage to make a good movie?

 

 

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Wed, 30 May 2012 15:30:00 -0700 final exam http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/final-exam http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/final-exam

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Wed, 16 May 2012 14:05:00 -0700 Emotion Wix websites for TOK http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/emotion-wix-websites-for-tok http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/emotion-wix-websites-for-tok

http://www.wix.com/nicolecaspers/annoyed-tok

http://www.wix.com/nicolecaspers/tok-1-silly

 

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Thu, 03 May 2012 14:15:00 -0700 language project write up thing http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/language-project-write-up-thing http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/language-project-write-up-thing

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Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:26:00 -0700 How the Natural World sees color http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/how-the-natural-world-sees-color http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/how-the-natural-world-sees-color

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Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:40:00 -0800 Fantasy Language project videos 1 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/fantasy-language-project-videos-1 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/fantasy-language-project-videos-1

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Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:41:00 -0800 Language article http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/language-article http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/language-article

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1. Choose 1 QUOTE from the list above and comment on it with your own personal thoughts and real- life examples.

"Man is the animal that speaks. Understanding language is thus the key to understanding man" - Thomas Szasz

I really like this quote mostly because it calls us animals, and I think we need to be reminded that we are animals, just like all the others. When I hear this quote I start thinking biologically that we have a huge vocal range unlike most other animals, which is why we are able to make so many different sounds. This quote also says that all of our knowledge is pretty much based on language which I believe is pretty true. Language is culture which fuels knowledge.

2. Choose 1 LINKING QUESTION. Comment on it with your own personal thoughts and real-life examples from the world or your experiences. Find a related article or video that would support your answer, and describe how it does. You can research on your own or use the HANDY DIIGO LIST of almost 100 sources to help.

Does the way you describe something affect how you feel about it?

In Psychology, we read about a study where the Psychologist would tell the paricapents (of the study…) about a car crash and then he would ask them how fast they thought the car was going. The thing is, he would use different words each time for example, the car smashed into the other car, the car bumped the other car, the car mutilated the other car……….

3. CHOOSE TEN of the 20 proposed Blog Questions and answer them thoughtfully, providing examples as you go. Relate it to your own experience. Try to find other articles or videos that would support your answer and post along with it. (The more resources you have later, the better)

1. How much could you know about the world if you had no language or means of communicating with other people?

You would have to find everything out on your own, and a lot of that information ends in death, so learning those lessons wouldn’t be helpful to you because you’d be dead. Like knowledge like, what happens if you get bitten by a rattle snake? Some things you need to be told.

 

2. What are some examples of words that have entered the English language as a result of the computer revolution?

Tech Savvy, Trolling, Lol, Sexting, Le Sexy time, Derp………ya……….

 

5. To what extent is your use of languages accompanied by images? Does every word conjur up an image or only some of them?

Words that have an important meaning to me, conjure images. I think though it’s true especially with colors. If you see words that are colored purple, but read yellow, it’s a bit confusing.

10. Birds fly and planes fly. Since fish swim, why don't we say that submarines also swim? What do submarines do?

Submarines dive. I think we don’t say they swim, because swimming is for living things.

11. What would be the advantages  and disadvantages of everyone in the world spoke a common language? What would be gained and what would be lost?

We would be able to easily communicate and it would probably help with trade and peace, but we would lose culture because languages are closely entangled with culture. It would also make making fun of people from other contries hard because they would understand you…..

19. Do you agree with the old rhyme "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me"? In light of the effects of cyberbullying, how might you analyse this quote?

I think this is a load of crap because names hurt really bad. People commit suicide because of things they were called. Words are like ninja killers, because they can have so many meanings based on how they were conveyed, that you never really know if they hurt someone or not.

3. Try to define as precisely as possible these words: a. triangle    b. love     c. table  What is the difference? Which was easiest to define?

Triangle= 3 sided shape Love= a strong positive emotion one feels towards other physical things or beings Table= a Standing surface used to hold objects. The table was the hardest to define…..

7. Do you think communication would be improved if we got rid of vague words?  DO you think vague or ambiguous words sometimes serve a purpose?

I think communication would not improve if you get rid of vague words. Vague words work because if you use a more powerful or descriptive word, it shows that the thing you are describing is important enough that you use a more powerful/less vague word.

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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:52:00 -0800 Breaking Down the Senses and Sense Perseption part1 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/senses-25214 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/senses-25214

Choose 1 sense (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell). CHoose 1 hour of your day and keep track of absolutely EVERYTHING you experience through that sense ONLY and record it on your blog.

3. Respond with a paragraph regarding your reading of Hilary Lawson's story about visual agnosia

4. Which of the 3 "Theories of Reality" do you most adhere to? Explain.

5. We are all very good at seeing only what we want to see. Can you give some examples of the way in which our BELIEFS, CULTURE, or MOOD affects the way we see things?

6. CURATE and article or video regarding ANY of the senses and sene perception. Try to find at least 2 knoweldge issues and post all to blog

Read the Sense Perception blog post http://ljatok13.posterous.com/perception-lesson 
and explore the links and multi-media. Answer the following questions (also located at the end of the blog post) 
1. CURATE an optical illusion (or more than 1) you find particularly interesting and post to your blog so we can share them. If you can explain how it works that would be great.

2. Choose 1 sense (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell). CHoose 1 hour of your day and keep track of absolutely EVERYTHING you experience through that sense ONLY and record it on your blog.

3. Respond with a paragraph regarding your reading of Hilary Lawson's story about visual agnosia

4. Which of the 3 "Theories of Reality" do you most adhere to? Explain.

5. We are all very good at seeing only what we want to see. Can you give some examples of the way in which our BELIEFS, CULTURE, or MOOD affects the way we see things?

6. CURATE and article or video regarding ANY of the senses and sene perception. Try to find at least 2 knoweldge issues and post all to blog.

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This imageis kind of cool. The dots are white, but if you look around, they turn black....... i think it has to do with the colors.......

For the sense, I chose Touch/feel:

Last weekend, I went hiking up in Haleakala national park for a good 15 hours.......it gave me a lot of time to think.... any ways, so I focused on what I was feeling, and it was really weird. My body had a hard time understanding what was going on. It was really cold because it's up high so it was around 40 degrees F, but the sun was shining so I was constantly being bonbarded by warm and cold at the same time. My body wasn't sure whether to sweat or shiver. Then I got a sunburn but my body didn't notice it untill we left because the cold was masking it even though it was a pretty bad burn.

The whole visual Agnosia isreally hard for me to rap my head around......... I don't quite understand how you could reconize your features, but not your face in the mirror.......... it doesn't really make any sense...... for some reason, it sounds a bit like alzheimer's. John's case sounds like a SyFy movie

 

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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:50:00 -0800 Breaking Down the Senses and Sense Perseption part2 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/breaking-down-the-senses http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/breaking-down-the-senses

A. After watching and discussing these videos in class, CHOOSE to either write a paragraph or produce a vlog journal (video) describing your personal thoughts on what you have learned from them, and questions you may have. ***You may wish to divide your responses by "sense category" into 5 sections. Responses should be thorough and thoughtful. 

B. Create at least 1 question per sense to be used in our Socratic Seminar. All questions should be open-ended and open to various perspectives.

I really liked watching the videos about light, color and the senses, but I think it's too much thinking. I have this way of thinking about colors and light, that is disterbed by overthinking it. When I think of things like color, I have a genersly good/positive feeling, but when we go really in-depth into it, I kind of loose the good positive feeling..... i dont really know, it's weird. 

I liked hearing the one guy talk about  how humans almost soley rely on their eyes, even though it's not really your eyes that see, it's your brain. Your eyes pick up light and your brain morfs it into colors/pictures. This is why that tribe in Africa, saw colors differantly than westerners even if it was the same colors they were looking at. This is really cool. This supports the videa of the brain being the one who actually sees, because it is being influenced by their language , which language would have no efect if you were truly seeing only with your eyes. All this information about our sencses has me thinking about the movie limitless, like how we only use a small part of our brain. Maybe if we learned or traned ourselves to use our other sences more, we would be able to acces more of our brain power.

Smell: Why is smell the first sense we comprehened?

Hearing: How effective is hearing on our memory?

Tast: Why do most people like tast over their other sences?

Touch: Like the guy said in the video, Is there a way to be able to ignore or render extreme pain painless?

Seeing: How much of our world or the information we gather from our surroundings rely on seeing or evein just seeing color?

 

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Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:47:16 -0800 Sense Perception http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/sense-perception http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/sense-perception

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I love this kind of art! this plays on your eyes, What is reality? 

 

We are all very good at seeing only what we want to see. Can you give some examples of the way in which our BELIEFS, CULTURE, or MOOD affects the way we see things?

I think that things we call supernatual, like ghosts fit under this and how when you're alone in your room and it's dark, our minds can take regular everyday things and twist them, with the help of our imaginations, and tern them into something  dark and scary.

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Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:30:00 -0800 my Food info graph http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/my-food-info-graph http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/my-food-info-graph

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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:09:00 -0800 My remix info graph http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/my-remix-info-graph http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/my-remix-info-graph

The post above is my remix of the info graph about sleep

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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:06:00 -0800 Untitled http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/93992697 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/93992697

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Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:45:00 -0800 Infographs and why they're better......... http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/93772879 http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/93772879

When it comes down to it, I think that info graphics are the way to go. They're like the new technology for PowerPoint, posters and presentations in general. They make displaying and sharing not to mention understanding, information much easier. When I think about it, it reminds me of a lot of what the IB program is trying to do. All through 9th and 10th grade, IB has been trying to combined ideas from different classes. Info graphics are a combination between art and (business, math, history etc.)

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I love this infograph because it's funny. The information is nothing special, infact this is really just someones opinion, but it keeps my interest because it is colorful, funny, and differant.

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This one is similar to the last. This has information about "Geeks" and how they evolved. It looks at trends throughout history. This inforgraph is funny. The different geeks have different drawings. It is laid out to resemble an evolutionary tree.

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Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:41:16 -0800 Nature of Knowledge Essay – TOK http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/nature-of-knowledge-essay-tok http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/nature-of-knowledge-essay-tok

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Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:12:19 -0800 Wolfram Alpha http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/wolfram-alpha http://nikkicaspers.posterous.com/wolfram-alpha

Students were asked to Play around with all the knowledge engines we discussed and write about their experiences, as well as commenting on related knowledge issues, such as the implications of knowledge when using these technologies.

I played around with Wolfram Alpha.

I asked things about topics ranging from scientific research like Cell membrane function to childhood tv shows like the winx club. All together, it didn’t give me everything I wanted to know, but it gave me basic info that would have taken me a lot of time and research to find on Google. I do like the idea of these sorts of databases.  Just think what it would be like if the whole world worked on one database and put all their knowledge into it AND made it completely free to access. THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!

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The point of this exercise was to examine the nature, extent, acceptability of various kinds of deception. 

1.      Which cards did your group find easiest to place? Which did you find most difficult?

We found that the worst things were the easiest things to place while the more obscure situation based were hardest to place.

2.      How similar or different was your order from that of other groups? Were there any surprises?

Almost all the groups had the really bad ones like lying under oath as the worst but everything in between differed per group.

3.      Were there cases where you'd need more information about the context before placing it?

Yes! Almost every other question really needed like a paragraph of info behind it.

4.      How many of these forms of deception have you engaged in - be honest :)?

The little ones, loads of times, I believe that “white lies” are part of every day living, however, I can honestly say that thankfully, the more the lie is frowned upon, the less I’ve done it.

5.      How widespread do you think deception is in the population at large?

Like I said, lies build our social network. Lies are the concrete holding the building blocks of a relationship together. Most of the time, lies are told with good intentions, however, some of the worst catastrophes in history have been the results of good intentions.

6.      How do you define a "lie" - which of these cards would you classify as "not a lie" and why?

Santa is real= not a lie, mostly just because it doesn’t reach the standards by which I define a lie by.

I saw him murder her=I define a lie as something that has the potential to physically or mentally hurt someone or something. Which this does, this one lie could and probably will ruin lives.

7.      Under what circumstances, if any, is it acceptable to mislead or deceive other people? Should we tell the truth at any cost, or are other things, such as happiness, more important?

I think that in most situations, happiness is more important than always telling the truth, however if the sadness a person would feel later outweighs the happiness presently felt at the time, then I think the truth is in that person’s best interest in which I would then proceed to tell the truth. Though I think that safety comes first when dealing with things such as national security and I believe that everything should be done to keep everyone safe, within reason.

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