Katie Johns
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Random blogger and published short story writer-
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The Geek Girl's Guide to 'Dancing with the Stars' Season 27
Strike up the band, stock up the spray tan, sew on the sequin, and get the phone lines ringin’! Lights, camera, action in the Hollywood fashion! Bust a move, time to groove, and see dance routines with passion!
By Katie Johns6 years ago in Geeks
A Geek Girl's Guide to Brain Skills
I studied education in college, and many of my classes focused on theories and approaches teachers can use to do what they do in the best ways possible. One such theory from a psychologist named Howard Gardner promotes an idea of eight different multiple intelligences that relate to any particular student's brain skills, as I'll call them. Gardner's theory became prevalent in a time when the way people thought about intelligence and learning was changing. Teaching was like a cookie-cutter until over thirty years ago, with a one-way-fits-all sort of mentality that believed all students learned the same. But enter the 21st century and Gardner's way of thinking to bring the new mindset of a diverse education. Anybody from a psychologist to the street vendor knows everybody is different, so education should ditch the cookie-cutters and aim to teach through different means in order to reach everyone.
By Katie Johns6 years ago in Education
The Geek Girl's Guide to Talking Sports
When I was single and mingling, I wanted to learn how to “talk sports”. Now, I grew up as a fairly active individual, participating in several extracurricular sports almost since I've been old enough to, so I feel I've always had at least a basic understanding of how most sports were executed: most consist of a ball or puck being passed among members of one team, trying to do whatever earns the points, while the other team tries to keep them from earning the points. Others entail individuals competing with each other by running, swimming, jumping, skating, fighting, riding, or driving to be the first to cross a finish line or the last one standing. I played sports to make friends and to keep myself busy and healthy more than to make an athletic star out of myself. I've always been more of a geek, playing video games, reading, writing, or watching a movie or drama sooner than I'd pay much attention to sports stats, standings, predictions, and performances such as the stuff of ESPN commentary, of course, that's what most other people would talk about too. Grasping much of those things for some reason seemed beyond me for a long time, but I had hoped that learning them would impress a guy and help build a relationship with him. I came up with three ways to learn what I wanted and to get to the sportsman's heart.
By Katie Johns6 years ago in Humans
Thirty Songs to Take You Places
A road trip just isn't complete without tunes. Or if you can't get away, you can mentally escape through music. Here is my own playlist of songs that either directly name-check or reference cities, states, or regions in their titles and/or lyrics. If anything seems left out, this list reflects my own musical interests and even exhausts every song I could think of for this theme. Most are self-explanatory, though a few I've decided to explain. Feel free to pick-and-choose from this list to help you get wherever you're going!
By Katie Johns6 years ago in Beat