For this project, I chose to use the 8W’s created by Annette Lamb (1997) in her article, “Wondering, Wiggling, and Weaving: A New Model for Project- and Community-Based Learning on the Web,” to learn yoga. My goal was to locate internet resources to help me learn the basics of yoga and create a month-long practice schedule.
The 8W’s Model is an information inquiry model that “involves wondering about a topic, wiggling through information, and weaving elements together” (Lamb 2015). The different stages of this model can be viewed in the image above. The steps include Watching, Wondering, Webbing, Wiggling, Weaving, Wrapping, Waving, and Wishing.
I know that I am very much a visual learner. I learn be watching and then by copying or doing. I was particularly attracted to this model because it focuses on Watching (“explore and become observers of their environment”) and then Wrapping and Waving (“creating and packaging ideas and solutions” and ” communicating ideas to others”). In order to fully explore this model, I plan on observing yoga videos in addition to my experience observing yoga in the past, exploring and evaluating internet resources, and using the best resources to create a schedule that will be shared on this blog.
Resources:
Lamb, A., Smith N., and Johnson, L. (1997). Wondering, Wiggling, and Weaving: A New Model for Project- and Community-Based Learning on the Web. Learning & Leading with Technology 24:7, 7-13.
Lamb, A. (2015). Information Inquiry and Instruction Analysis. Eduscapes. Retrieved from http://eduscapes.com/instruction/5.htm#b.
Beginning My Yoga Journey 