Performance Hall:

Entrance: 

• Handy-cap entrance ability
• Cigarette disposal containers
• Trash containers at every door at the entry-way
• Restroom
• Advertisements in the restrooms for upcoming events
• Banners/Posters



• Harry Potter summer of magic
• Singin’ in the rain
• wednesday night is movie night
• Star Trek TNG
• 2012
• Manos
• Mary Chapin Carpenter
• National Circus of China
• Glenn Miller Orchestra & the Diamonds
• The Nutcracker
• Judy Collins

• History Plaques with picturesYCF / (Yavapai College Foundation) Plaque
• Concession stand
• Yava Java
• Digital Sign Boards

Back entrance:

• Soda dispensers

• Coca cola 
• Pepsi cola

- Snack dispenser

Popular Culture "we're all doomed"

Thesis: Is this all that the media can produce for us?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74ZsbKryqg

     This Youtube clip is able to portray a wide expansion of popular culture and how there is not as much learn for ability.  One of the topic's that he portrayed was a quote from D. Laughey.  So I did a search under the google search parameters, and found (http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/as/cs/dr_dan_laughey.htm).
 So I was able to find a good source on D. Laughey.

      Another point that he is trying to get across is a twitter fact where you are only able to post a comment with 140 characters or less for a statement.  So in a way of how he is saying this is the media is not what to think of, but what to think about.  It limits the statements to mere phrases, which directs the attention in that form for a directional thought.

       Another quote he portrayed is by G. Debord
(http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/debord.htm)

       This is where I was able to find the closest quote where he was able to mention the quote of "The spectacle is therefore not primarily a collection of images but a social relationship between people and mediated images... [creating] a false reality that conceals a world of capitalist exploitation and class division." (G. Debord).  In other words, the images are purposeful for the placement of products.  This shows the exploitation for capitalist promoted by class division of a trail of promoted wealth.

        Just like youtube is able to have people promote themselves for popular gain, status, which are not recreating traditional ideas of how media has been even in the past.  Instead of bringing about new ideas where they are portraying the same thing, we are able to see on television.  It is just an easier way to obtain these cooking shows, comedy sketches, list is endless for all the information that you are able to obtain from multiple average people that are able to post their comments.  Just like commercials, instead of a product, we are sold a different way of viewing the world, lifestyles to strive for, or even dialogs that would effect how we would see or go throughout the world after seeing the clip or reading the comment.
     
         Then the real meaning of the youtube clip comes into play near the end of the clip with a quote by M. Strangelove "Capitalism's system of meaning production is not confronted with a highly decentralized communication system that treads meaning as public property."
         So as she is explaining this, she is explaining the ability for common people to send out a voice to the known world.  For the people that want to have a say in their community since they were unable to do so before.  This ability is enabling common people to comment with a computer.  In doing so, it was able to get a voice out for political uprisings.

Roy Forrest HUM 101

What else do the NFL coaches look for other than the Wonderlic Personnel Test?

What else do the NFL coaches look for other than the Wonderlic Personnel Test?

http://videos.usafootball.com/video/What-Coaches-Look-for-in-Draft;Jon-Gruden

This is a web sight that talks about drafting for the character style of the player in the majority of the interview clips.  Some state the need for having the talent to take the sport all the way.  Some say they are looking for talent first.  Then there are some that are looking for players that can think on the fly or on their feet.  Also players they can trust to make good decisions.  Even though it has been a good test to be able to get a basis on what the players can think of on paper, it is not always going to be that same way on the field.
Seems that not only does character play a big part of the coaches decision, it has also not completely been true if you have the character and not the talent.  One of the coaches even mentioned "If you can find the guy that would play the game for nothing, then you have the chance to do something special" (Mike Shanahan, Denver Broncos coach).

When I did the search for the Wonderlic test search I came up with this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderlic_Test


History of the Wonderlic Personnel Test

Created in 1936 by E. F. Wonderlic, the Wonderlic Personnel Test was the first short-form cognitive abilities test.^[3][9] It was developed to measure general cognitive ability in the areas of math, vocabulary, and reasoning.^[3][9] Wonderlic created and distributed it as a graduate student in the psychology department at Northwestern University from his home.^[7][9] Regarding the time allotted to take the test Eldon F. Wonderlic, in an article released in 1939, stated the following: "The length of the test was made such that only about two to five per cent of average groups complete the test in the twelve-minute time limit."^[4]

Originally designed to aid in employee selection, the Wonderlic Personnel Test has also been used by both the United States Armed Forces and the National Football League for selection purposes. During World War II, the Navy began using the Wonderlic Personnel Test to select candidates for pilot training and navigation. In the 1970s Tom Landry, coachof the Dallas Cowboys, was the first to use the Wonderlic Personnel Test to predict player performance.^[3] It is still used in the annual NFL Combine as a form of pre-draft assessment.^[3][9]

The Wonderlic Test is continually being updated with repeated evaluations of questions.^[10][5] Also, beginning in the 1970s, Wonderlic began to develop other forms of the Wonderlic Personnel some of which include: Wonderlic Perceptual Ability Tests, Wonderlic Scholastic Level Exam, or the Wonderlic Contemporary Cognitive Ability Test. There are currently 30 tests offered by Wonderlic, Inc.^[11]

I did find it quite interesting that they have been doing the test even during WWII to help select candidates for pilot training.  So they have many other purposes other than the football selection during the draft.

forrestfire21's gamification for education thoughts

What I think about the gamification for education,
     I Think its an interesting approach on reaching people that are computer friendly and think in different ways.  That being said, I have been out of the loop of this type of communication where I need to understand all the steps to be able to complete a single assignment.  A lot of steps to get to an achievement and taking each step is quite new to me.  Even though I am not completely computer illiterate, I think my knowledge is around basic knowledge.  I would like to finally get that snap of the finger where it clicked in my head, unfortunately it hasn't quite clicked for me yet.  It is a good approach on familiarizing myself and the rest of the class with the different blog adding, sharing, and doing a lot of practice (for me anyway, which at this time is a little slow).  I do like the idea of going out of the box for a different approach for learning... once I learn how to do that; that is.

making my comment from forrestfire21

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my first blog

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