Today on Thursday, November 5th, the BGeX class went to the Student Union today to look at research posters. The research poster that I chose was “Stepping In and Out of Second Life: Rediscovering the Virtual” which was written by Anca Birzescu, who is a Doctoral Candidate for Communication Studies. Her research poster and thesis mainly discussed how people around the world use online simulation programs and create avatars that have personas and looks that they wish they had. Anca believes that through these avatars, people change into the people that they wish to become through the influence of the simulation programs. Personally, I believe as though this research poster did not have enough information to back up her the thesis that she previously had stated. The quote that she used from a female simulation player described events that occurred to her online that neither proved her thesis, nor was relative to the topic at hand. Overall, I was slightly disappointed at Anca’s attempts to prove, what I would have expected to be, and interesting topic.
On Thursday November 5th, the BGx Perspective class went to the Student Union to observe research posters. I choose the poster “Marital Status in the U.S. 2008 Variations by Gender, Race and Ethnicity” by Sh’Anea L. Jackson, a senior in the Human Development & Family Studies. Her thesis explains that the number of people getting married has lowered recently and is drasticaly based on peoples race, ethnicity and gender. She show’s that today more men are not married then women especially in the Eastern U.S. She believes that this could be factored because of the difference of gender, race and ethnicity in the U.S. More people with the ethnicity of white will marry then people who are black or hispanic. She also believes that many people are not married because of the number of people in their own race or ethnicity. Many people will only marry in their own race so they stay single and many ethnicities have a larger portion of one gender then the other which leaves the odds uneven. I believe that Ms. Jackson brings up a good point. It seems that people are not marrying as much anymore and stay in their race. When I first though about it, I disagreed with her, believing that many couples do marry different ethnicities. The more I read her poster though and thought about it I realized she was right. Her researched backed up her theory showing that though the U.S is very diverse, many couples still mary in their own race. This would end up eventually lowering the number of people getting married. I was impressed with all the research and effort she put into proving her thesis. The topic to me was very interesting and it made me think differently about how the world is running these days.
On November 5th, I had the pleasure of attending the research conference that was held at Bowling Green State University. The conference consisted of a display of research posters created by faculty and students that covered a variety of different topics. I am honored to say that my group’s poster was one of four from our class that was chosen to represent our topic on the New Music Festival. However, there were many other outstanding projects. One that stuck out to me was one titled, “The Pedagogy and Praxis of Acting with Neuro-scientific Principles of MEMORY and EMOTION.” This researcher discusses the fact that a common problem for actors is to create realistic behaviors and keep their performances original. The one thing that actors need is to form a Performance Memory that consists of their own experiences and how they react to them. The researcher found different methods for creating a performance memory from people such as Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Stanford Meisner, and Uta Hagan. There are various exercises, noted by the researcher, which can help with creating a strong, binding performance memory: mime, abstract movement, etc. The researcher’s topic was cited by reliable sources, I found, making the subject legitimate. The facts were structurally sound and opened with a strong thesis statement. To my belief and observation, the research was done effectively and correctly. The conference overall was a phenomenal experience, and I was glad to be a part of it.
On Thursday, November 5th 2009, I experienced the Research Conference at the Student Union at Bowling Green State University. Although there were many well researched posters, this one, in particular, caught my eye. The poster consisted of a bunch of busses with different designs and words on them. At the bottom was a brief description of what this poster represented. This poster represented a organization called Art in TARTA. TARTA, Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority and the Arts Commission for the greater Toledo area and Bowling Green State University have collaborated to create a wonderfully unique idea. Various students from local Toledo schools have written poems with which graphic design students from BGSU will design a layout for public a transit bus wrap. This poster clearly states the project, and although a captivating idea, it does not state any of the criteria they based the poems or designs off of or even how they reached the idea of the Art in TARTA. They do give a website for any who are interested to learn more and that website is Artintarta.org.
On Thursday, November 5th, our class visited the research conference in the Union. It was very interesting seeing all of the different types of research done by BGSU students and faculty. I couldn’t understand most of the scientific posters because I didn’t know what half the words meant. I did, however, find a poster that I could understand quite well. It was about how stress affects college students. It was very easy to related to because, as most of us have found out, being a music students is very stressful. The conclusion of the poster was that time management helps reduce stress and therefore lowers health risks. I completely agree with this conclusion. I have found that setting a schedule and keeping to it is the best way to stay peaceful about homework and classes. Overall, I thought this poster was informative, relevant, and presented in a way that was professional and also related easily to the reader.
On Thursday, November 5, 2009 the BGeX class went to the student union for the research conference. I spent a good amount of time observing posters and they were all very interesting, except for the math and chemistry ones; I didn’t understand anything presented on those. However, much hard work was obviously put into all of them. The one poster that caught my eye was “Stress Among Working College Students: Health Impacts and the Role of Time Management” by Matthew Adams. This poster stuck out to me mostly because I could learn from it. My first semester here at college has been hectic and stressful. This gave advice on how to go about managing your time properly with lists, calendars, and making sure to not procrastinate. It also gave research on the most common stressors among college students and the health impacts they suffer as a result. I felt this poster gave me insight into how I could become a more organized person. I thought the poster met all the criteria for something that is critically thought through. This poster provided useful information and it was presented in a professional manner. I thought this poster, as well as all the posters I observed, were very well done.
Last Thursday in our University Seminar class we had the opportunity to visit a showing of several research posters done by students throughout campus. Of the dozens of posters there, one struck me in particular. It’s title was Historical Changes in Rivers in NW Ohio: Implications of a Hydromorphic Paleosol.
The primary reason I found this poster more appealing than any other was it’s clear organization. Each section of text was numbered which made reading the poster in order easy and not confusing. The language of the poster also conveyed its information easily to me. It wasn’t loaded with technical jargon that a non-geologist wouldn’t understand. The text was also concise and not loquacious.
This poster clearly contains the elements of reason within it. It has a clear purpose, to answer the question of the river flow changes over time. It uses clear concepts and assumes the results of experiment will yield favorable results. it presents the information received from a scientific point of view, and after it forms a conclusion it lists the implications of the results.
On Thursday November 5, 2009 the BGex class went to student union to see the research posters that were submitted and picked, to be displayed. Four posters from our own class were picked and were all very proud of them. We had to pick one poster to look at more in detail. The poster that I picked was the Athletes’ Interpretation of Photographs of Female College Athletes by Nina Mandic. Her research poster was about how female athletes are sold more as sex symbols rather then showing off the athlete that they really are. Mandic believes that these photographs have a negative impact on young female athletes because they are being shown off because of how they look instead of how they perform on the court or field. She also believes that, with all the bad things that are going on in the sports world like steroids and other illegal activity, these young girls need a positive real healthy looking role model.
On Thursday the fifth of November, I attended a research conference with my BG ex class. This event was held in the ball room at the student union. there were rows and rows of posters set up around half the room, all on the widest variety of topics. After admiring the posters displayed by my fellow classmates, I browsed the collection and found one that caught my eye, and interest. There was a display toward the end of a row that was made of a poster describing the effects reality television, and tv in general have on young women and their image of themselves. This informational poster gave statistics and facts on a survey conducted on young women around the age of eighteen. The facts showed readers how women of that age and maturity can be negatively effected and be pressured to loose weight and be dissatisfied with their body shape and physical make up. Girls need to keep in mind that what they see on tv should affect how they see themselves.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Today on Thursday, November 5th, the BGeX class went to the Student Union today to look at research posters. The research poster that I chose was “Stepping In and Out of Second Life: Rediscovering the Virtual” which was written by Anca Birzescu, who is a Doctoral Candidate for Communication Studies. Her research poster and thesis mainly discussed how people around the world use online simulation programs and create avatars that have personas and looks that they wish they had. Anca believes that through these avatars, people change into the people that they wish to become through the influence of the simulation programs. Personally, I believe as though this research poster did not have enough information to back up her the thesis that she previously had stated. The quote that she used from a female simulation player described events that occurred to her online that neither proved her thesis, nor was relative to the topic at hand. Overall, I was slightly disappointed at Anca’s attempts to prove, what I would have expected to be, and interesting topic.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:50 am
On Thursday November 5th, the BGx Perspective class went to the Student Union to observe research posters. I choose the poster “Marital Status in the U.S. 2008 Variations by Gender, Race and Ethnicity” by Sh’Anea L. Jackson, a senior in the Human Development & Family Studies. Her thesis explains that the number of people getting married has lowered recently and is drasticaly based on peoples race, ethnicity and gender. She show’s that today more men are not married then women especially in the Eastern U.S. She believes that this could be factored because of the difference of gender, race and ethnicity in the U.S. More people with the ethnicity of white will marry then people who are black or hispanic. She also believes that many people are not married because of the number of people in their own race or ethnicity. Many people will only marry in their own race so they stay single and many ethnicities have a larger portion of one gender then the other which leaves the odds uneven. I believe that Ms. Jackson brings up a good point. It seems that people are not marrying as much anymore and stay in their race. When I first though about it, I disagreed with her, believing that many couples do marry different ethnicities. The more I read her poster though and thought about it I realized she was right. Her researched backed up her theory showing that though the U.S is very diverse, many couples still mary in their own race. This would end up eventually lowering the number of people getting married. I was impressed with all the research and effort she put into proving her thesis. The topic to me was very interesting and it made me think differently about how the world is running these days.
November 6th, 2009 at 11:06 am
On November 5th, I had the pleasure of attending the research conference that was held at Bowling Green State University. The conference consisted of a display of research posters created by faculty and students that covered a variety of different topics. I am honored to say that my group’s poster was one of four from our class that was chosen to represent our topic on the New Music Festival. However, there were many other outstanding projects. One that stuck out to me was one titled, “The Pedagogy and Praxis of Acting with Neuro-scientific Principles of MEMORY and EMOTION.” This researcher discusses the fact that a common problem for actors is to create realistic behaviors and keep their performances original. The one thing that actors need is to form a Performance Memory that consists of their own experiences and how they react to them. The researcher found different methods for creating a performance memory from people such as Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Stanford Meisner, and Uta Hagan. There are various exercises, noted by the researcher, which can help with creating a strong, binding performance memory: mime, abstract movement, etc. The researcher’s topic was cited by reliable sources, I found, making the subject legitimate. The facts were structurally sound and opened with a strong thesis statement. To my belief and observation, the research was done effectively and correctly. The conference overall was a phenomenal experience, and I was glad to be a part of it.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
On Thursday, November 5th 2009, I experienced the Research Conference at the Student Union at Bowling Green State University. Although there were many well researched posters, this one, in particular, caught my eye. The poster consisted of a bunch of busses with different designs and words on them. At the bottom was a brief description of what this poster represented. This poster represented a organization called Art in TARTA. TARTA, Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority and the Arts Commission for the greater Toledo area and Bowling Green State University have collaborated to create a wonderfully unique idea. Various students from local Toledo schools have written poems with which graphic design students from BGSU will design a layout for public a transit bus wrap. This poster clearly states the project, and although a captivating idea, it does not state any of the criteria they based the poems or designs off of or even how they reached the idea of the Art in TARTA. They do give a website for any who are interested to learn more and that website is Artintarta.org.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
On Thursday, November 5th, our class visited the research conference in the Union. It was very interesting seeing all of the different types of research done by BGSU students and faculty. I couldn’t understand most of the scientific posters because I didn’t know what half the words meant. I did, however, find a poster that I could understand quite well. It was about how stress affects college students. It was very easy to related to because, as most of us have found out, being a music students is very stressful. The conclusion of the poster was that time management helps reduce stress and therefore lowers health risks. I completely agree with this conclusion. I have found that setting a schedule and keeping to it is the best way to stay peaceful about homework and classes. Overall, I thought this poster was informative, relevant, and presented in a way that was professional and also related easily to the reader.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
On Thursday, November 5, 2009 the BGeX class went to the student union for the research conference. I spent a good amount of time observing posters and they were all very interesting, except for the math and chemistry ones; I didn’t understand anything presented on those. However, much hard work was obviously put into all of them. The one poster that caught my eye was “Stress Among Working College Students: Health Impacts and the Role of Time Management” by Matthew Adams. This poster stuck out to me mostly because I could learn from it. My first semester here at college has been hectic and stressful. This gave advice on how to go about managing your time properly with lists, calendars, and making sure to not procrastinate. It also gave research on the most common stressors among college students and the health impacts they suffer as a result. I felt this poster gave me insight into how I could become a more organized person. I thought the poster met all the criteria for something that is critically thought through. This poster provided useful information and it was presented in a professional manner. I thought this poster, as well as all the posters I observed, were very well done.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Last Thursday in our University Seminar class we had the opportunity to visit a showing of several research posters done by students throughout campus. Of the dozens of posters there, one struck me in particular. It’s title was Historical Changes in Rivers in NW Ohio: Implications of a Hydromorphic Paleosol.
The primary reason I found this poster more appealing than any other was it’s clear organization. Each section of text was numbered which made reading the poster in order easy and not confusing. The language of the poster also conveyed its information easily to me. It wasn’t loaded with technical jargon that a non-geologist wouldn’t understand. The text was also concise and not loquacious.
This poster clearly contains the elements of reason within it. It has a clear purpose, to answer the question of the river flow changes over time. It uses clear concepts and assumes the results of experiment will yield favorable results. it presents the information received from a scientific point of view, and after it forms a conclusion it lists the implications of the results.
November 11th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
On Thursday, November 5, 2009 I was ill and couldn’t attend teh Reasearch Confrence.
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:29 pm
On Thursday November 5, 2009 the BGex class went to student union to see the research posters that were submitted and picked, to be displayed. Four posters from our own class were picked and were all very proud of them. We had to pick one poster to look at more in detail. The poster that I picked was the Athletes’ Interpretation of Photographs of Female College Athletes by Nina Mandic. Her research poster was about how female athletes are sold more as sex symbols rather then showing off the athlete that they really are. Mandic believes that these photographs have a negative impact on young female athletes because they are being shown off because of how they look instead of how they perform on the court or field. She also believes that, with all the bad things that are going on in the sports world like steroids and other illegal activity, these young girls need a positive real healthy looking role model.
December 8th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
On Thursday the fifth of November, I attended a research conference with my BG ex class. This event was held in the ball room at the student union. there were rows and rows of posters set up around half the room, all on the widest variety of topics. After admiring the posters displayed by my fellow classmates, I browsed the collection and found one that caught my eye, and interest. There was a display toward the end of a row that was made of a poster describing the effects reality television, and tv in general have on young women and their image of themselves. This informational poster gave statistics and facts on a survey conducted on young women around the age of eighteen. The facts showed readers how women of that age and maturity can be negatively effected and be pressured to loose weight and be dissatisfied with their body shape and physical make up. Girls need to keep in mind that what they see on tv should affect how they see themselves.