GIDEOS INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERING SERVICE

Hi! It is great to have you back in my blog. Due to a volunteering service on April 21^st  to 26^th some of my classmates(Irene, Saul and Alison) didn’t attend class, which is why I’m going to tell you a little bit about my experience.

First of all, the volunteering service was requested by the Gideos international group of El Salvador, this group is dedicated to making the Word of God available to everyone and, together with the local church, reaching souls for Christ, and they distribute bibles around the world. So I was assigned to different places (schools and universities) and people who only spoke english in order to distribute the Bibles, in my case I worked specifically with a businessman named Erik Oosthuizen along with some of my classmates(Saul, Irene, Alison, David) and other businessmen. During the whole week, we visited some schools and universities such as “Concha viuda de Escalon”, “Centro Escolar Las Moritas” in Lourdes, Colegio TAI in Ilopango, “Universidad Nacional” "Evangelica university", and others places. Unfortunately, some schools didn’t open their doors but some others were so happy to receive the bibles and hear what the missionaries wanted to say. 

 

On Friday they organized a banquet to talk about the statistics of the job done during that week, and based on their statistics we visited 112 places(universities, schools, hospitals and police departments)  and 77,789 bibles were distributed.

 I thought my work was done on Friday, however Erik asked me to be his tourist guide as he wanted to spend more time in our country because his flight was going to be until 7 pm. Of course I was more than happy to be Erik’s guide as it was the first time I did something like this. So on April 27^th Erik and I went to El Tunco beach, besides it is great option as many tourists go there. After that, he wanted to buy some souvenirs for his family so we went to the national handcraft market, later we went to downtown I tried to show him some of the most emblematic places, then we drank some coffee and ate a chocolate dessert. We definitely had a great time and he thanked me for all the assistance.

We had a busy week and we faced many challenges such as their planning schedules, transportation, sometimes understanding the different accents of some members, but at the end of the week we learned a lot and I personally enjoyed meeting those people and help them with their mission and it was worth all the effort.

Multiple intelligences II

 Blog week  16th and 18th

Hi, I’m glad to have you back on my blog.

Today I’m happy to tell you about our class from April 16^th and 18^th. We continued learning about the multiple intelligences by listening to our classmates.

First, we listened to Genesis, Alison and Iliana. They explained the Kinesthetic intelligence. This intelligence involves control of one's body movements and the ability to handle objects skillfully. It includes skills such as coordination, balance, flexibility, etc.  As part of the activity we danced while they gave us instructions, additionally, we acted and my group performed a scene from the movie “Harry Potter”. That was very entertaining.

Second, Xochilt, Madeline, Sara and Cindy talked about interpersonal intelligence which is about understanding and interacting effectively with others. Later we did an activity which was about putting an emoji on the forehead of some volunteers and they had to guess the name of that feeling, then we made a medal in which we had to write down three words that described us better and we had to guess who’s medal belonged to.

Third, William, Kimberly and Emmanuel explained intrapersonal intelligence which involves self-awareness and understanding one's own emotions, motivations, and goals. At the beginning of the presentation, they did a mindfulness activity in which we had to put the right hand on our chest and breath while listening to a video they played. Finally, they gave us a paper and we had to act that feeling and they had a judges to score our performance. My team won during that activity and we had a lot of fun.

On April 18^th  We Stefani, Soad and Tais  learned about naturalistic intelligence which is about understanding of nature, including plants, animals, and natural phenomena, besides that, they talked about the importance of recycling and their first activity was about that, then we played Kahoot and all the questions was about environment.

 

 

We definitely had a good week in which we learned from each other.

Multiple intelligences- presentations group 1,2,3 and 4

Hi, it is great to have you back on my blog.

During this week we learned more about the multiple intelligences through different presentations on April 9^th and 11^th.

On April 9^th we started with the presentations and my group was the first. We enjoyed talking about verbal-linguistic intelligence which is about the sensitivity to spoken and written language, as well as the ability to learn languages, and effectively use language to express oneself, and as an activity, we did a roleplay about the elections. We made three groups, and each group selected their candidate for president who were Genesis, Marvin and Steffany for the class president. At the end of this activity, Steffany won the elections, by the way they did a great job.

After our presentation, Fatima’s group talked about mathematical intelligence which involves logical thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving abilities and as activity they let us resolve some mathematical problems.

Finally, we listened to Alejandra’s presentation. They talked about one of my favorite intelligences which is musical intelligence. This intelligence is about having sensitivity to rhythm, melody, pitch, and tone. They explained the characteristics, also they mentioned some famous people and the importance of developing this intelligence in the classroom. They had an entertaining activity which was about guessing the name of a song by listening to a few seconds of the song.

On April 11th we continued learning about the multiple intelligences. During this class we listened to Saul’s group, they talked about Visual-spatial intelligence which is the ability to create a mental model of spatial spaces. During their activity we made groups, then we watched a story and answered some questions, after that we played memory and we made a tangram puzzle, finally, we played Pictionary, unfortunately didn’t win on this activity, but we had a good time on these activities. 

Kolb’s experiential learning cycle

Hi, thanks for visiting my blog. Let’s talk about the topics we learned during the week of April 2^nd and 4^th.

Firstly, on April 2^nd we learned about the “Kolb’s experiential learning cycle” which has four stages:

1-Concrete experience: On this stage people learn through real life experiences or actions. 

2-Reflective observation: After having an experience, learners reflect on the experiences, for example, actions, feelings and what they learned from it.

3-Abstract conceptualization: then learners use theories, logical approaches or concepts. They try to understand practical issues or problems.

4-Active experimentation:

On the other hand, there are 4 learning dimensions: Diverging, assimilating, converging and accommodating. We also did Kolb’s test and according to my results, I’m “converging”, in simple words this is about preferring to use abstract conceptualization and active experimentation and it is related to problem-solving and practical application of ideas, often focusing on technical tasks and finding practical solutions.

On April 4^th we attended classes as usual, unfortunately, Regina couldn’t go, so we agreed to have a Zoom meeting to discuss the ideas for our presentations for next week, we also did a research to create our Canva presentation. Finally, we discussed the activities we will do during our presentation.