The library of the Church is used to check out books, sometimes to just relax reading a book there, to do homework and also to even have a meeting there with people in different groups (religious groups, and people that just want to talk).
In this article, Stress-reducing effects of indoor plants in the built healthcare environment: The mediating role of perceived attractiveness, Dijkstra, Pieterse, and Pruyn talk about the stress reducing effects natural elements have on patients in healthcare facilities creating those “healing environments” for those patients. They showed how other authors experimented and talked about how natural settings are far more stress reducers than urban settings. They want to see if this is the reason why most people prefer natural settings over the urban settings or if its directly due to the actual plants which reduce the stress and create attractiveness. The participants were shown a picture of a hospital room with the indoor plants and another without the indoor plants and an urban setting; with this they also used different measurements. While using statistical procedures in their conclusion, participants felt less stress with the indoor plants than the ones with the wall painting, including perceived attractiveness mediates from the presence of indoor plants and perceived stress.
Not Atlanta, but shows environment like nature & other variables in interior affects people. It is similar to other article that is why I chose it. The bias here is not every person would prefer natural elements over urban settings, so not always true nature will always reduce stress compared to urban settings. There was also 21 years old in this testing & only up to 77 people in the experiment, the data could change completely.The interior environment has many variables affects the people.
Dijkstra, K., M.E. Pieterse, and A. Pruyn. “Stress-Reducing Effects Of Indoor Plants In The Built Healthcare Environment: The Mediating Role Of Perceived Attractiveness.” Preventive Medicine 47.(2008): 279-283. Science Direct. Web. 21 Feb. 2016
In this Article Influence of soundscape and interior design on anxiety and perceived tranquility of patients in a healthcare setting, Greg, Watts, and Khan talk about how the natural environment brings more tranquility the man-made noise or environments. They are worried for the patients who have to wait very long in clinics and healthcare facilities to be served for their medical need, so they believe of having a more “restorative environment” They are complaining of the soundscape because of the high level noise and how plain and boring the design is in the rooms. They went to The Bradford Student Health Service near the university campus to do the experiment where they put down the noise and added nature-like noise and included pictures of natural landscapes, nothing man made. They Tranquility Rating Prediction Tool, in the results showing how the people tended to become more relaxed in the adjusted room then the as is room, but overall it showed stress and anxiety levels could be affected by other factors and people relax with different types of music.
Nothing to do with Atlanta, but shows nature helps restore environment in medical facilities, helping in general to reduce stress of the people. It was interesting. All different groups of people gender and age in both experiments of As is and changed environment so there could have been bias, their levels of anxiety could have all been different due to this set up and small sample size. Nature reduces stress and affects people.
Watts, Greg, Amir Khan, and Rob Pheasant. “Influence Of Soundscape And Interior Design On Anxiety And Perceived Tranquility Of Patients in A Healthcare Setting.” Applied Acoustics 104.(2016): 135-141. ScienceDirect. Web. 22 Feb. 2016
In the article The deaf and the classroom design: a contribution of the built environmental ergonomics for the accesibility, both authors Martins and Gaudiot, were worried in the article specifically about the deaf and what necessary things are left out in the educational built environment for the deaf showing quick fixes including sunlight, acoustics, accessibility, visualization, warning signs and also how the layout of the classroom should be open to all sorts of ways of teaching and learning for all groups of students and not be so strict or traditional or standardized.
SHTE method and participatory design were used in two different schools for the deaf to see how they did including questions, interviews, and more; students, teachers, employees, and interpreters participated. Concluding, the data showed there were many important things missing in these classrooms that make it harder for the deaf to learn. Martins and Gaudiot had suggestions and showed these two layouts that could help fix the issue.
This has nothing to do with Atlanta, but shows variables and layouts in the classrooms affect the deaf students and teachers in the teaching and learning; in this case negatively. I chose it because it looked interesting to me. I feel like it was bias in how it says the deaf are not well accommodated in the classrooms for their learning, but they only tested two schools; there are a lot of good schools for the deaf. The interior of the built environment affects people in all my annotative bibliographies.
Martins, Laura Bezerra, and Denise Mariasimões Freire Gaudiot. “The Deaf And The Classroom Design: A Contribution Of The Built Environmental Ergonomics For The Accessibility.” Work (Reading, Mass.) 41 Suppl 1.(2012): 3663-3668. MEDLINE with Full Text. Web. 21 Feb. 2016
What does an Annotative Bibliography have?
So in my experience, I have not had a lot of writing through technology in my English classes before this one; I find it better in many ways this present English class is more technology based. At first, I was extremely scared to work with almost everything that had to do with technology because I have always been used to “book tests, essays, papers, group projects, and pure lecture based class instruction with the typical classic set environment.” Now, ever since we have used more of the internet space for most of the assignments, or well blog for basically everything, I find it easier than what I thought it would end up being.
I was extremely worried about how the teacher would grade me because I always had a lot of trouble with my writing. In English 1102 with all honesty I feel like I have trouble with the fast paced due dates for each thing, making it harder for me to write at my best since I also have other classes and activities and work.
I have no issues reading articles, but It is harder for me to focus and pick out the main points I need to summarize when the articles are extremely long and I have little time. I also have trouble with making a good summary, sometimes I feel like it sounds lame when I try to summarize or that I repeat myself or just a lot of bad things in my writing.
Overall, I feel like I could do better with more time instead of being in a fast paced mode; also I do like this class because I am learning a lot about the built environment and how to be very descriptive and be multi-modal, and am enjoying going out to write and listen and observe the environment.
The limited space, physical constraints had the most effect on the instructor. Since with the architecture of the traditional classroom had desks in a more tight compacted way than in the ALC classroom where there was more space and it was more flexible in usage, but the students were not that on task in the ALC, but there were some discrepancies, so no one really knows. Math models were used. (6-8)
In Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Spaces, Kathleen G. Scholl and Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi talks about the history in how the university campuses have created their campuses away from the distraction of the outside world but where the open space can be used by the public and the way the open space, creates its own recreational facilities, its own identity, and more to make it a more educational environment for the student. (53)
The next part of the article shows how Kathleen and Gowri uses different quotes and in her own words in basic terms that the way a physical landscape is designed, can affect the way a person behaves and the outside world or nature can help a person who gets tired or bored easily and ends up in taking a richer and deeper learning experience then the classroom instruction which is the stagnant kind of experience. Even in the article of where Kathleen and Gowri and talks about the ART which is Attention Restoration Theory, which “centers on the internal and external influences affecting one’s cognitive ability and suggests that exposure to and interaction with nature has specific recovery effects on the human attentional system.”(54) The nature explained in this article is living and nonliving nature from the wilderness to the beautiful flowers to the running water to the roaming animals, the weather, air, and more. The landscape is defined as a way for people to interact with the environment, basically as an example the kind of relationship a student has with nature and the built environment and how that affects their way of learning and cognitive thinking, the way they solve problems, their reactions, their memory and more.This way of working with the environment allows for direct and indirect attention and restoration. Direct attention which involves with using our memory, help us in our daily activities, making us use our brains to focus and prevent from other things to distract us from what we are doing. This makes it important for the students to have this opportunity to be able to see multiple things and ideas presented and being able to achieve the goals they have in college rather than not using different skills and not learning. The part where it talks about the Involuntary attention is where the person or student is able to take a break from all that brain frying of being in the classroom all the time feeling tired and completely distracted thinking about other things rather than learning, which could help the student with their overall experience in their campus and their overall success in their education. It is like Kathleen and Gowri said, “A wide range of natural settings in and around a college campus can play a role in student learning and engagement.”(55) Kathleen and Gowri also said that “Future research can test the premise substantiated by past literature that the natural landscape of a college can be an asset by enabling attention-restorative benefits and positively influencing learning and academic performance.”(55) It says in the article we have three types of interactions with nature being incidental, indirect and intentional with the environment. From these three types of interactions, studies showed that when there is no nature or natural component there, we do not have enough rest in our most important time of rest and it also showed how urban life does not give us enough rest or enough of what we need to to use our “attentional capacities effectively.”(55) Both Scholl and Gulwadi showed a chart of examples of Student-nature interactions in campus landscapes (56). It shows in the next page how this experiment or creation of nature in most open spaces of universities help students with using their multiple senses and help the students have more attention restoration allowing them to have a dynamic learning environment. Not to always use this in everything or always, but can help mostly when the students study and then take breaks going to this type of environment to help restore that attention, and help increase do even better in their thinking and learning. Both of the authors concluded saying, “In this paper, we focused on the cognitive benefit that is holistically designed campus can provide as a resource for learning, that is the enhancement of “direct attention.” Thereby, we also addressed the importance of providing multi-dimensional access to student-nature campus to include our conceptualization of a holistic landscape, and expanded the notion of student learning to include our vision of dynamic and holistic learning so that much-needed breaks/pauses in learning can occur in all kinds of indoor and outdoor enclosures.”(57-58)
Scholl, Kathleen, & Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi. “Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Spaces.” Journal of Learning Spaces [Online], 4.1 (2015): n. pag. Web. 13 Feb. 2016
In the past, I have always been in a structured environment where the teacher is giving a subject, or we are reading a book, or we are doing group projects, in the computer lab to write a paper, taking a paper test, or things that do not involve a lot of computer use. In English 1101, it was learning about Rhetoric and writing papers using rhetoric, and we had group projects, and we had a lot of fun in class; the teacher was super hilarious; I feel like that prepared me for a lot of this class English 1102 for this type of content of Rhetoric we would have to use. I feel that the primary and secondary research has been both included in all my English classes at some point, but in this English 1102 class, there is more use of technology than ever before.
In having worked on the reading summaries, annotative bibliographies, and built environment descriptions, I have learned about how in primary research is literally going out and observing first-hand whatever that is being researched, looking at archives, doing surveys, and interviews. The secondary research has been looking at journals, articles, books, and more. The way I plan to apply what I have learned for the next assignments is in using all these resources of primary and secondary research correctly while citing the ones I have to cite in the correct format and improving the way I find research and put it all out there.
I am not sure what the rhetorical situation is for the reason we are doing these compositions in class, but I think It is to help us better understand how to do research in both primary and secondary forms and to help us improve as writers. The audience for these assignments are the public that is interested in knowing about specific points and some to know the significance of those certain locations, just to become informed overall about different things they might have not known before.
Generally, in all my English classes I would normally write a reflection on paper or I would type a paper on Microsoft or read a book for a class and have a test on it, but rarely we ever used blogs, only in high school since many teachers saw we would maybe have to use it in college including for our senior project.