The process of my mini-movie

To be honest, I am still having trouble putting my mini- movie together. However, I am glad because I finally have a topic that makes me feel comfortable. I first thought on different things that I am learning right now, but none made me feel comforatble enough to make a mini-movie. Now, I have decided to make my movie about eating healthy. I have this idea in my head about the way I want my mini-movie to be like. I still need the majority of the pictures and video that includes me. I already have the pictures I got from different websites.
I have thought about the different scenes in my movie and I can almost see them as if I already had them all put together. First, I am going to have maybe a video and some pictures of me thinking of eating fast food (McDonald's), stopping at the drive-way and taking the food home. Then, before I eat I will weight myself and be ashamed. It is then that I will throw away the fast food in to a trash can. Then I will go and by healthy food at the grocery store. And finally, I will eat a healthy meal.
But, so far this is still in my head. I hope nobody steals my idea. No matter what, I thought about it first and this blogs proofs is my idea.

Cultural Model Idea

Paul Gee in his book titled, " What Video Games Have to Teach Us," explains that a cultural model is made out of "images, story lines, principles, or metaphors that capture what a particular group finds "normal" or "typical" in regard to a given phenomenon." What I get out of this is that as groups of people we see things differently. In other words, a group of people can be a family unit, a community, a church congregation, an ethnic group, a political party, etc. Depending on what your group of people believes, you will have an opinion on a subject that might be completely different from the point of view of a different group of people. For example, different Christian churches will have different point of views of what it is to be a good Christian. It all depends on what a specific church claims to be the actions of a "good" Christian.

Situated Learning...

Chapter 4 in James Paul Gee's book, " What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy," has some very interesting ideas. I found true that as humans we have a brain that works similar to a computer. By this, I am trying to say that we can edit the most important things that happen to us and store it as knowledge for future experiences in our lives. This is what Gee says it's to have a connection or make a connection between our stored knowledge and new experiences. This of course will be different from person to person because we are all different. Another point I found interesting and that I agree with is the fact that in every situation where learning is taking place, there has to be active learning, engaging in an affinity group and thinking and acting as a knowledgable person in the specific area to be learned. I this is a very good idea since many of us can read but not really understand what we are reading. To make things short, I think that situated learning is a process that requires lots of work and engagement.