Month: November 2020

Out of Eden Walk displayed 5 chapters of different visited places in the locations of Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Throughout this journey, there are a couple landmark points these travelers hit.

The 1st destination that I chose on this walk was Treasure Island. At this destination. It is located near Kellia, Cyprus. It is filled with many mountains and foothills. Over the whole scene hangs a peculiar light, a glaze of steel and lilac, which sharpens the contours and perspectives, and makes each vagrant goat, each isolated carob tree, stand out from the white earth as though seen through a stereoscope” (Byron. Robert). There are some of the oldest, earliest villages found here that were built many years ago. These were built by hunter-gatherers. They were built to have a modernized type look. The interior part of the Cyprus territory is known to be ghostly mountains.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2014-08-treasure-island

The second destination on the walk I chose was “Ghost City”. This was located in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. In this place, a fenced ““Green Line” separates northern and southern Cyprus. It is separated by a barbed-wire scar: a forgotten no-man’s-land, a fossil from an unresolved war that is out of place in today’s Europe. In 1974, Greek nationalists staged a coup in Cyprus. This provided Turkey reason to invade, to protect the ethnic Turkish population. Forty years later, the island remains partitioned. But many Cypriots—Greek and Turkish alike—dream of reunification” (Salopek, Paul). This location visited in the walk gives tourists a view of the lives people live in Cyprus. They talk about wanting to revive this Ghost City. Famagusta has been ringed by a 500-year-old wall of stone, built a long time ago. There are definitely some cool views and buildings to visit in this city in Cyprus.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2014-08-ghost-city

The 3rd and final destination on this walk of Autumn Wars is “The Hinge”. This landmark is located in Kirit, Turkey. This area or viewpoint was covered in the oldest plowed fields in the Cilician Plain of southeastern Turkey. Out here, you will find many mules wandering about, and places to actually buy cargo mules. There are many villages through this city and farmers and fields where they grow vegetables. There is stone roads throughout this area that people can adventure on. So many fun attractions and things to see and adventure too. This would be a very cool trip spot to go too for someone who likes to explore new places. I found some of these facts and places pretty cool and interesting. This is definitely something different than New Jersey.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2014-09-the-hinge

While exploring the WE website learning about the teachers and extra tools used by them in their classrooms helped me find some new useful ideas for when I become a teacher in a couple years. In these schools, they have a program where students can learn and understand more about current issues in our world today such as “hunger, poverty, access to education, diversity and inclusion, racism and black racism, the environment and sustainability, LGBTQ2IA+, equality, human rights, Black Lives Matter, proactive mental health” (https://www.we.org/en-US/our-work/we-schools/we-schools-campaigns-and-curriculum/)

This four-step program these schools have, bring students to a better understanding about the world today and what situations people are dealing with in their lives, and what they can do to help keep these from reoccurring so much.

WE, teachers, ensures that every teacher in every school around the globe has all kinds of free access to the educational tools and types of training they need to set them and their students up for future success in their schooling and future jobs they obtain so they can do a great job and fulfill their goals. WE teachers programs have many offerings included in it such as free tools and resources, an online teacher community, the we teachers awards, and etc. Many different programs and benefits come out of this WE teachers and schools involved. This is what I found interesting and will use in my future classroom. I will use these tools and help my students have a better understanding of the world around them and the issues that are currently going on in the world at that time, and past events and issues in our world that have effected us in many different ways.

Microsoft Whiteboard is a freeform, digital canvas where people, content, and ideas come together. You can use Whiteboard for collaborating with your team to accomplish many activities- whether your team is in the same place or multiple locations. With this tool, you can complete many different types of running effective meetings, brainstorming, team sprint planning, project planning, problem-solving, continuous improvement, and incident management.

How can you use Whiteboard?

You can use Microsoft Whiteboard on your PC, IOS device, the web, on your surface hub. There are many different ways to use this tool.

Open the Whiteboard tool with your whole class, or open several different ones with small groups in your class. You can connect with each other or connect with others remotely. Whiteboard has an auto-save feature so that, whenever anyone contributes, their work appears live and is saved in the cloud so the rest of the group or class can see it whenever they’re ready.

In Whiteboard you can use ink, finger painting, ruler, Ink to shape, Ink to table, object snapping, select, move, resize and copy content, adding pictures, add sticky notes and annotate them, lock an image in the background, and many more. Whiteboard has so many different types of features that someone can use and work with for their activities and projects that need to be created.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-whiteboard-help-d236aef8-fcdf-4b5e-b5d7-7f157461e920

Here is a video about Whiteboard to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG91PYYPDto