This is the graphic organizer I have started to look at my topic. Inspiration is fun! I don't work in a school so I had never tried it before.I am reading about yodeling (or rather "wreading!" Naw, I guess you might call this Wiggling, were you inclined to do that sort of thing.) I have found that there are not easily identifiable sources on the Internet about this aspect of yodeling. Mostly there are sites used to promote professional yodelers. I looked at the University and didn't find much there. I am using my noggin about this. When I was planning my search, I decided that this might not be the kind of topic that would be likely to be found in a journal. I doubt there is a lot of new information about this being generated in the golden halls of the Academy. So, that leaves full-sized books. This is the kind of topic that I would enjoy reading whole books about, so it is requiring the use of some of the kinds of skills that a content literate adult like myself might use. I just don't have the time to read these books cover-to-cover. I am also jumping ahead a bit in my thinking to just how I will communicate this to you all. I would like to do a short video but I haven't experience with video editing and I am worrying about intellectual property issues. I would like to be able to play some audio of yodeling and such but I have to figure out what's legal first.
To tell the truth, I have been thinking about this aspect of the project from the beginning. I am not sure if it's the sort of person I am or the sort of project this is that makes it hard for me to do a task like this one step at a time.
Anyway, I plan to keep adding to my graphic organizer as I acquire and synthesize information. This is still fun.
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I think this is my way of beginning to weave the information I have gathered. I am sorting things out for a compare/contrast way of finding out what it is that I know, now. Iam doing a lot of the tasks involved in the Pathways to Knowledge task: "intepretation." There's a lot of organization, inference, and reflection for me right now. I am still definately in this part of the process, even as I keep a foot in the next step and the one behind me. Wait! That's three feet! Maybe one of them's a hand... or a gaze...I don't know. My point it that, more than recursive, this process for me is overlapping. I do not seem to be moving from one stage to the next then returning to an earlier stage. It is more like I am leaving a part of my mind in each step, but to varying degrees. Is this a sign of dysfunction or just the way I operate. Maybe I'll be better able to assess that when I'm closer to finished.
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