Post-Bridge: Bone Making Video!

Hey Guys,

I don't know how many of you will look at the blog, now that bridge is over, but here is a link to the video of us making bones. The video, by coincidence, seems to be footage mostly of our group!

I hope you are all doing well. Enjoy the rest of your summer. Best wishes, Meg

http://sharing.theflip.com/session/b98ee70494c864e48e292fd2472c511a/video/5565786

Look at this link!

Today's lecture is on the Chicago Cultural Center's Synesthesia Exhibit.

Synesthesia: syn·es·the·sia also syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn'ĭs-thē'zhə)
n.
1.) A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
2.) A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
3.) The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.

Please click on this link and read the "WHY" section of this website to understand more about this exhibit and what you will hear talked about today. Can you come up with an example of synesthesia occurring in your own life? What questions do you have about this topic? Come up with ONE question.

http://synestheticplan.org/index.html

The One Lingering Question

Similar to yesterday, we want you to think of one important question about college that you would want answered by students, professors and/or administrators. Today's afternoon activity will be a lecture/panel discussion, where you will get the opportunity to ask these people questions regarding the school, student life, your major, and life in the LOOP. Please brainstorm and post only one important question.

Count Down; Last Week

Welcome to your last week of Bridge! We hope that your weekend was spectacular.

For this blog post, please comment honestly and THOROUGHLY on your plans for successfully completing your last week of Bridge. Please let us and your classmates know how you are doing on your paper and just in general, commenting on any thing of concern. What have you learned in Bridge that has help you as a writer, student or creative? What are some questions that you still have about college, or college writing that you would like to have addressed in this last week?

Dear...,

For today's post, write a full LETTER to a character from your book. What would you say to him or her if you met face to face? What are you curious about? Is there something you want to thank the character for? Maybe you're confused by a character's actions and want to confront him or her. Be respectful and thorough saying all you want to say to this character.

Relationships

If you’ve ever been in a deep long term relationship, tell us all how you made it work and if it ended tell us why. How do you make a relationship work? What are the keys in making a relationship work?

Under My Skin

Hi Everyone!! Today's blog will concentrate on what upsets you, what really gets under your skin. To stay in the line of making connections, talk about what it is that upsets you about your art. What upsets me about my music is when it doesn't come out the way I planned it to. Don't just stop there tell whatever it is that upsets you. This should help us build better relationship!!! BLOG IT!!!!!

Passion for your work

Read over this quote from choreographer, Merce Cunningham, and comment:

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

Sharing Difficulties and Solutions

Good Morning Everyone; we are halfway through our Bridge experience!

For today's post, we would like you to focus on any concerns or difficulties you are having academically, or overall in Bridge. Take a moment to really analyze yourself, your performance and your WRITING, and share with the class those things that you could improve or need help with. The second half of the post should be an intended solution for bettering yourself as a student, writer, listener. As always, we are looking for a thorough and thoughtful post!

The AIC Visit

We want to hear your feedback regarding our visit to the Art Institute. It could be a description of the building, comparison to our CCC Photo Gallery, or an analysis of how your reacted to a certain piece. Vere away from commenting on the one piece of art that you wrote about in your essay. Perhaps you would like to discuss a piece that you had questions about. Hopefully this trip maybe you reflect upon what types of art you gravitate toward and enjoy; you could also identify what type of art this is, and thoughtfully comment on why you think it is you enjoy this type of art most.

Getting ready for the AIC

Hi Guys, today's field trip is to the Art Institute of Chicago. Before we go it would be great to start thinking about how you will move through the museum. Will you go to the bottom of the museum and work your way up, or run up to the top and work your way down? Will you focus on one wing (if you do I would suggest starting in the new modern wing)? Today's goal of the field trip (as always) is to find a personal connection with or interest to one specific piece. A future assignment will be to elaborate on the one specific piece of art, (so bring a PENCIL and PAPER to take notes). You might also, in this post, talk about your favorite medium of art, what type of art, or period of art do you prefer?

Cultural Identity

At the salon on Thursday, we were able to view Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. This film, based on the graphic novel that some of you are reading, is a prime example of a cultural narrative. Think back to the film or novel to one scene or memory of the author. Going off of assignment #3 and #4, identify a defining memory that makes you who you are, and elaborate.

Free Style

Many of your have asked about free style writing on our blog. I would urge you, for this post, to write as much as possible; the theme/topic is open. The post, however, should continue to be creative non-fiction.

Make connections

Hello everyone, I hope that you enjoyed seeing the Museum of Contemporary photography. Running with the theme of making connections between yourself and the artwork you encounter daily, as well as sharing your envisioned "special place", we would like for you to search the internet for a single image that closely represents that special place or you in someway. Post the image, and write a thorough, two-paragraph entry describing your choice of image completely.

What type of learner are you?

Yesterday, after Ames Hawkin's lecture on lectures, we discussed the modes of learning that you respond best to. Share your entry with the class.

Welcome to Columbia College Chicago Bridge 2009

Greetings and welcome to Bridge 2009! This is our homepage for our four-week English Studies class. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the blog and its links. As a part of your English Studies course in Bridge, you will be required to post your questions, prompts, and responses on this website.

These next four weeks have been designed to be an intense and rewarding experience for you. The purpose of this work on the blog is to provide you with more opportunity to write, and respond to the ideas generated within our class.

In this, your first Blog posting, we ask that you write an Introduction for yourself. You might begin with some basic demographic information--age, major, where you live, family members, etc.--but work toward a more complicated, complex, and complete presentation of yourself. Don't only tell us what you like to do, but WHY. You might begin by describing how you spend your time, but also let us in on your own personal beliefs about some idea. What makes you who you are? What makes you think the way you do?

Of course, you can't say everything about yourself in this short amount of time, but do what you can to really give us an interesting description of who you are and why you're here in the Bridge program.