Please read Chapter 3: Language and complete the reading guide by 6/11 (B) or 6/14 (A). Something to think about while completing it:
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#TOK Pinterest Scrapbook Project
English: Red Pinterest logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
To wrap up the first unit, we will be setting up our Pinterest Scrapbooks (Assignment Sheet). We will be continuing this project till next January. You will be creating a board for each unit and pinning content that relates to it. For all the details, review the assignment sheet.
For the first board:
Board 1: What is Knowledge? (50 Points/Major)
Due Date: 6/14
Focus: Think about the ideas we talked about in this unit. Try to find examples or extensions of those ideas. When possible, make connections to new or different ideas as long as they are related.
Set Up Assignment (20 Points/Minor)
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Create a Pinterest Account
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Setup your profile and first board
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Follow me (BTHSTOK)
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Fill out the class list
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Follow others in the class
The emphasis will always be on creativity, passion, and originality
If you have any questions, please feel free to use the comments section!
H/W Chapter 2 Reading Guide (Is this a pipe?)
Please read Chapter 2: Nature of Knowledge and complete the reading guide by Monday. A question to think about while completing it:
Is this a pipe?
The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) by René Magritte
#TOKQUESTION Instagram as Art
Digital technology has completely revolutionized the way people produce images and art. Skill and training have been replaced (to a degree) by simply downloading an app. With the billion dollar sale of Instagram to Facebook last year and the rumored Yahoo bid for Tumblr, this is also big business.
But, has technology changed what it means to be an artist or what qualifies as art? If you Instagram dinner, can you say that you’re a photographer? If you VINE, are you a director?
Is art without effort, still art?Reply with #TOKQUESTION – as an added bonus feel free to attach your own art (appropriate of course!)
Every picture needs a Dosa filter
#TOKQUESTION What we said about history
#TOKQUESTION
What I want to do is organize weekly discussions on Twitter about TOK related issues. What I think makes sense is presenting the question on Monday and giving everyone till Sunday night to respond with the hashtag #tokquestion. Monday, we can storify the discussion and ask a new question. If you have any suggestions for topics, please tweet @SeanRMeehan.
For this week (5/10/13):
The NYTimes published two reviews of new books on the causes of WW1: On the Brink. Since we just finished IB History where we just read a whole bunch of historiography, the #tokquestion is: When is history over? When can we say that we’ve said enough about a topic?
Alas poor PBworks.com, I knew him Horatio!
Breaking up is hard to do, but it looks like PBWorks.com and me are splitting up. For about 5 years, I’ve used BTHSTOK and BTHSIBWORLDHISTORY to manage my courses. It was a great way to manage content, due dates, and a plethora of IB forms. What was my biggest surprise was how many hits I started getting from around the world. I had created the sites simply to run my courses and now I was getting hits from strangers in New York, California, even the Philippines. It started getting weird when turnitin.com would pick up my student forms being used at schools in Switzerland.
Why the break? Five years later the wiki interface doesn’t make a lot of sense. With the rapid expansion of Google Apps, WordPress’s more seamless integration of elements, and the increasing importance of mobile web use, the format doesn’t add the same value it used to. In addition, my page loads were getting very buggy in Chrome. No one wants to stare at a poorly rendered page. So the king is dead, long live the king!
IB Open History 