Tag Archives: 2012

Civic Engagement is a four week term at GCE where we form into groups,work together on difficult projects and use the GCE goals through out our project. My group was the gratitude group, which was convenient because I learned a lot more about gratitude. I also learned that no matter the task as long as Read More…

Why? You went to the International Children’s Film Festival, organized by Facets, the largest festival of films for children in North America.  As a member of the GCE community, you learned a lot.  Now, it’s time to share a bit. How? At the end of today, one of your film critiques shall be shared as Read More…

For my Design and Engineering class, I did projects that help me become a global citizen by teaching me ways I can reduce my carbon footprint. At the same time, it allowed me to understand the full process and detailed designs used to become more sustainable. The purpose of this project was to use Google Read More…

In my Art of Rhetoric course, I am learning about the three modes of persuasion – pathos,logos and ethos – and how to use them in an argument or paper. Each of the modes are important to incorporate while discussing anything. For our first action project I focused on ethos. I created a professional resume, Read More…

For my second action project in my Art of Rhetoric course, I focused on pathos. My assignment was to identify a problem, create a proposal, then take action! The problem I identified was that local coffee shops are being overlooked because Starbucks is buying them all out. I used pathos to support my argument by Read More…

In our counter culture class we learned about identifying key elements that define the two different countercultures and investigate how different cultures influenced them.  For our second action project we wrote a poem about what we hoped a future utopia would looked like. This poem was more difficult that the first because I had trouble starting the Read More…

In my Engineering and Design class, we learned about wind turbines and how they have the power to contribute a lot of natural energy. We were lucky enough to have the CEO of Windonics come in and explain more about wind turbines, how they work and their effect in our everyday lives. Windonics is a business that designs and sells wind and Read More…

In my design and engineering class, we learned about solar panels and its contribution to a better sustainable world. For our second action project, we created our own homemade solar panels from scratch. Next we explained our process using Prezi. Prezi is a great way of formatting projects. After doing this project I learned the Read More…

In my Counter Culture class we discussed the meaning of a shout-out/invocation poem. A shout-out poem is a poem in which the poet usually calls to and appreciates a person, place or thing. Most of these poems relate to the people who go against or are not “normal”. They speak about the forgotten, unappreciated or Read More…

For the design and engineering class we created a water station that could be used around the world. We had four days and a twenty dollar budget to brainstorm and create a station that would be easy to use and simple to build. So we decided to recreate the water station we saw in the video below. Read More…