1. How old are you?
2.Please list All relevant facts that you know about college?
3.Please list methods that you know for getting financial assistance for college?
4.Share with yourself: What are your general feelings about college?
5.How do you apply to college?
Via mail (snail mail)- postal mail
Via internet
Via a short packet that you turn into the front office
Via ‘connections’
You can only go if you have good grades.
6.What are alternative methods to applying to a university if you didn’t get in the one you wanted?
7.What are different activities that school provides, free of additional charges for you once you are enrolled?
8.What are your attitudes towards college?
9.How much due you value and appreciate a college experience?
10.What do you know about computers and their use?
11. Do you want to go to college?
Post Test additional questions
1. How have your perceptions of college changed?
2.Does college seem more fun to you?
3.Would you like to go to college?
4. Did this video change your perception about college?
Questionnaire
1. What have you learned so far during this trip?
What have you learned as a result of this video presentation?
2. What stood out to you the most about being on campus today?
What stood out to you the most about this video?
3. What was your favorite activity that you saw?
4. Is there anything in today’s activity that has changed your understanding of the college experience?
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Lake Wahburg Staff Interview
Tiffany was nice enough to volunteer for this project and outline for us some of the many activities that are found at Lake Wahburg.
Clips of Recreatonal College Activities, Un-edited version
Hey everyone:
I went to Lake Wahburg, south of Paynes Prairie, where the University of Florida has an entire 200 acre plus facility dedicated to outdoor recreational activities that include:
Swimming, Skiing, Sail Boating, Canoeing, Kayaking, Fishing, Rock Climbing, Ropes Courses, Disc Golf, Volleyball, Diving, Bird Watching, Exploring, Natural Setting for Relaxation, Hiking, Baseball, Soccer, Football fields, BBQ Grills and so on. All of these activities are free for University of Florida students and faculty.
Here are some short clips:
And for some reason they are not coming on for me!!!!
I went to Lake Wahburg, south of Paynes Prairie, where the University of Florida has an entire 200 acre plus facility dedicated to outdoor recreational activities that include:
Swimming, Skiing, Sail Boating, Canoeing, Kayaking, Fishing, Rock Climbing, Ropes Courses, Disc Golf, Volleyball, Diving, Bird Watching, Exploring, Natural Setting for Relaxation, Hiking, Baseball, Soccer, Football fields, BBQ Grills and so on. All of these activities are free for University of Florida students and faculty.
Here are some short clips:
And for some reason they are not coming on for me!!!!
What this project aims to do
The mission statement of this project is to use video and audio media to showcase the diversity of experiences that collegiate life has to offer and asks the question, why college? Non-formal and traditional college experiences will be showcased in order to more accurately reflect what it means to be a higher learner.
The ins and outs of the college application process and financial opportunities for funding of an education must also be addressed in an easy to follow, exciting (really) and invigorating way. In the end, the goal of this project is to positively equate education with a successful life (in terms of quality not quantity).
I. Our primary goal is to encourage and motivate towards, active participation in the collegiate experience. Any gains in knowledge of and appreciation for the higher learning process are components of the desired results.
II. Students will understand the application process for college enrollment.
III. Students knowledge of non-academic institutions and facilities including Lake Wahburg, sporting facilities (volleyball, basketball, racquetball and tennis courts; gymnasiums, recreation centers and pools), sky labs, computer labs and centers like the Reitz Union will increase in relation to their exposure to such facilities.
IV. Students will gain an appreciation for authentic collegiate experiences, primarily those involving non-academic characteristics.
V. Students will gain knowledge about funding options that are available to finance their academic future.
The ins and outs of the college application process and financial opportunities for funding of an education must also be addressed in an easy to follow, exciting (really) and invigorating way. In the end, the goal of this project is to positively equate education with a successful life (in terms of quality not quantity).
I. Our primary goal is to encourage and motivate towards, active participation in the collegiate experience. Any gains in knowledge of and appreciation for the higher learning process are components of the desired results.
II. Students will understand the application process for college enrollment.
III. Students knowledge of non-academic institutions and facilities including Lake Wahburg, sporting facilities (volleyball, basketball, racquetball and tennis courts; gymnasiums, recreation centers and pools), sky labs, computer labs and centers like the Reitz Union will increase in relation to their exposure to such facilities.
IV. Students will gain an appreciation for authentic collegiate experiences, primarily those involving non-academic characteristics.
V. Students will gain knowledge about funding options that are available to finance their academic future.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
So, You've come.....Good for you
This is the first entry in this project. I am thrilled.....
Why College? Most people I've been asking say:
1. More Money
2. Better education
3. Building intellectual capital for advanced opportunities
a. In jobs
b. In social networks
c. In relationships with partners
4. For their future
a. kids
b. all of the above
5. That's just what you do
6. My Parents wouldn't give me money otherwise
7. Educate myself to foster Social Justice in my neighborhoods
And so forth...Truth be told, for most of us it is a combination of all of these elements that have guided us towards higher education....
Nonetheless, I have seen a trend, though one I can not, as of yet, empirically qualify, that I find alarming ( I know, I feel commatose too). That last one: #7. I've asked a good 20-30 people in personal interviews "Why College", and not one of them gave me this last reason as their motus operandi. The growing disconnect in today's college applicants seeing education as a means of enhancing others upwards mobility instead of their own is most certainly, as Robert Putnam would argue, a grave loss of social capital of the bridging and bonding kind.
It is one this note that I then say: well man, that's what I want to be here for. Why college? I want to open the door for Social Justice to come into this big room full of elephants and take them all where they belong: outside of big rooms getting in the way of people having fun helping people.
Why College? Most people I've been asking say:
1. More Money
2. Better education
3. Building intellectual capital for advanced opportunities
a. In jobs
b. In social networks
c. In relationships with partners
4. For their future
a. kids
b. all of the above
5. That's just what you do
6. My Parents wouldn't give me money otherwise
7. Educate myself to foster Social Justice in my neighborhoods
And so forth...Truth be told, for most of us it is a combination of all of these elements that have guided us towards higher education....
Nonetheless, I have seen a trend, though one I can not, as of yet, empirically qualify, that I find alarming ( I know, I feel commatose too). That last one: #7. I've asked a good 20-30 people in personal interviews "Why College", and not one of them gave me this last reason as their motus operandi. The growing disconnect in today's college applicants seeing education as a means of enhancing others upwards mobility instead of their own is most certainly, as Robert Putnam would argue, a grave loss of social capital of the bridging and bonding kind.
It is one this note that I then say: well man, that's what I want to be here for. Why college? I want to open the door for Social Justice to come into this big room full of elephants and take them all where they belong: outside of big rooms getting in the way of people having fun helping people.
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