Euclid’s Last Class for the Semester – D59

This was our last class of Euclid. We started working in our small groups and in mine, we decided to first set our goals and dates to work on vacations. We are going to get together next week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday in order to review and learn all the first 30 propositions. This way we are going to be able to fulfill the general goal of reaching to demonstrate these propositions by February 4^th. We are meeting at Isa’s house.

Having some fun and “Workshop” – D54

After performing arts, we had some individual work and just before we had the workshop Bert planned for us at 4 p.m. we played some football and have fun at the Jardín Ayau. I was a team with Isa (we won of course), and Carmen, Pablito, and Franz were the other team.

For the workshop, first Bert showed us what we had to do for next week in order to deliver successfully our portfolio. The instructions were as follows:

•         Put yourself on the map
• List the readings and commentary you still have to complete.
• Write a guide to your documentation, highlighting for the reader certain features and content that represents your learning this term.
• Make a daily plan to recover and complete any work by February 4^th, 2013.
• Choose a chapter of one of our books that is particularly meaningful to you to present to the group on Thursday, December 13, 2012.
• Friday celebration at Kyle’s Library Project.

Later, we got into our groups of three and made two moral systems of some author Bert mentioned but I don’t quite remember. Here is the picture of how we divided the virtues and vices. We were close to made the two systems as the author made them, but here is the comparison for you to judge.

Finally, Bert gave us the Dialogue Rubric of the juniors (16-year-old students) at School of the Woods. It’s very interesting how many similarities we found with our rubric, and of course we would grab some ideas to incorporate to our rules. We talked about this rubric and our thoughts on it. Nothing really interesting happened to be honest. So far for today (now it’s 6:10 p.m.) Along with Alejo we stayed playing football-tenis at an improvised court in the individual work room. The match was close (51-47), but I lost. We left at 7 p.m. 

Grace’s Morning Meeting, Group Brainstorming, and Individual Work – D33

Grace directed today’s morning meeting. For that, she showed us some videos about dancing. One, which I very liked, is called, To People Who Love Dance. The others were of dancing choreography of a dance show and of her own dancing.

After Agora and Bert’s instructions, we got with our groups to brainstorm about UFM’s resources. Then, we told our contributions to the whole group and put them in order. We are making a Google Doc for later putting them with a better structure and more professional for our curriculum. We end our morning with some time for individual work and a Free Cities conference, which turn out to be a presentation of a doctoral thesis about seasteading. I must say that this conference is one of the worst ones I have ever had. It was terrible, bad rhetoric and not very good arguments. If I have to say something about what I learned from this experience, is to choose wisely how I use my time and not spend it in useless conferences. Ok, maybe I did learn something else, and that is about other forms of creating competition to the government. What I really disliked was the how the conference was given.

Euclid and Debriefing – D26

So, after lunch we practiced the first three propositions with our groups. With Marce and Lore, we decided to work individually to try to solve and deeply learn each proposition for later demonstration. When we finished doing this, we had our traditional debriefing. As far I can remember, there is nothing important to mention about this.

Progressing on Programming! – D25

Remember Euler’s programming problem? Well, during programming class with Kyle we took off were we left, so I got together with Marce and Lore to finish Project Euler’s third problem. After having some trouble trying to proceed with our problem, we asked Kyle for some guidance and after his advice and some improvements with our solution, we could answer it finally! It was very rewarding being able to work a solution and understanding it. After this, we presented the results to the class. It was great!

*Here is our problem if you want to try some programming and start solving Euler’s problems!

Problem 3 of Project Euler