Gospel Insights Presentation

Here is the link to my presentation

There isn't a lot of text because putting everything you are going to say on a presentation is bad teaching. I also had trouble distilling much more than this out of a talk geared towards men and their Priesthood. I wasn't sure how to make stuff about men using the priesthood applicable to women, since we can't use the priesthood the way men can, and can't really use the idea of honoring the priesthood in a classroom setting. So I pulled the basic ideas out, and was going to expand on them this way. We spend a lot of time talking about what we shouldn't be doing or shouldn't be looking at or reading, etc. But that actually isn't all that helpful. In order to "learn what we should learn," we need to know what that is. So instead of spending our time worrying about what we shouldn't be doing, we can also focus on what we should. As an artist, it frustrates me to only hear about the negative impacts of art. We should be talking about what can we read, what can we watch, what is beautiful and uplifting and contains truth, and how can we pass that on to our students? Embrace the things we should be learning, because there is so much art that can and must be embraced. I was going to ask people about books, music, theatre and art that they love and want to teach.

This applies to the other two ideas as well. Stop talking about what we shouldn't do or shouldn't be. God isn't trying to turn us into negative statements, into people who can't do anything. it isn't enough to just not do what we shouldn't, we must also do what we should, and be what we should be. An absence of wrong action is not the same as the presence of right action. We need to instill that in our students, and teach them what they can do and what they can be. That will be more beneficial in the long run than a list of don'ts.

We spend too much time fearing the negative instead of embracing the positive. If we only discuss the negative, people will head toward it because they don't know what the positive is. We should not be acting out of fear, but out of love for our students, and a desire to share truth with them.

Wiki Assignment

So I did the Wiki assignment, and posted my lesson plan and blog resource under the Performing Arts section, but I can't post the link. It won't let me do it for some reason; something wrong with the HTML. Not quite sure what to do about that.

Here are screen shots of the website to show I did the assignment