As an avid blogger (Not!) I found myself excited to be keeping a blog. It is something I have talked about doing in the past but never took the time. I do not even read many blogs to be honest, even though I have several friends who are consistent bloggers. I have always been the Facebooker (Not!). No Facebook, No MySpace, no social networking of any sort in college. I did not even have a Twitter account until this class. As much as I use Facebook to communicate with friends today I cannot believe I held off for so long. I love using Facebook! In fact a reason (and one that I thought was very viable) that I didn't blog was that everyone should be perfectly happy with my little quips on Facebook.
So for this class I am going to test blogging out. So far (except for one bug where I had lost everything I typed on Thing #1) it has been fairly easy. It might be my knowledge of technology or it might be that Blogger has made it easy. Its powered by Google and I love it! I usually am not creative with the names of things (Ms. Watson) but the minute I heard the blog was about things I thought of Julie Andrews singing "My Favorite Things." I have a not so secret love of musicals of which The Sound of Music is no undoubtedly at the top of. Singing in the Rain is the very top.
My avatar is as close to me as I could get with the Doppleme program. I was not about to pay for anymore...I have no idea what you call the things that make it different. I figured if I was suppose to be using this with my career eventually I better be a little serious about this. I also have the freedom to change it so we'll see where I go with it.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Thing #1 (Raindrops on Roses)
"Come on Mommy!" "Let's go play Mommy!" "Mommy can we play outside?"
This is what I hear my oldest son yell (because preschoolers only have one volume) on a daily basis. His little brother is not far behind with his bowl full of...energy. I swear I was going to say energy! I always want to play with them, but I can't help but find myself thinking of all the other things I have to do. The laundry and its never ending pile. The dishes that won't clean themselves. The homework I would love to pawn off on my husband, but alas he has his own work to do (Who's idea was it for both of us to go back to school at the same time?). When did playing become such a chore. Maybe I should follow my children and learn to stop and play for the enjoyment of it more often.
As you may have guessed, Playing is the habit I find the hardest to do.
Now the habit I find the easiest is Goals. It is easy to say what you are going to do. It is easy to say when you want to get it done. I find that making the time and effort is where a lot of people fail. Some goals are easy or have short amount of time to accomplish, other are hard or take longer. Some can be funny (I'm going to try and not mess this blog up) some can be serious (I want to learn more about using the web in my classroom) others are your own personal dreams (I want my boys to know I love them).
I once heard a women proclaim that "it isn't worth having dreams anymore". She had really been down in the dumps for a while and found that nothing was coming about in her life at the time. I believe that dreams are another form of goals. Many times a person will have goals to get to their dreams. I found myself really pondering that statement. I believe that you must always have a goal or a dream in life. If you don't have anything to work towards then how do you know where you are going? Its okay if you have goals that don't pan out. Sometimes the dream changes. Sometimes you learn something about yourself.
Being a lifelong learner is an interesting concept. I do not care for the term of learning being integrated with education for this term. Being a lifelong learner does not mean that a person must continually be in school, nor does it mean that they must always being going to training or professional development. Being a lifelong learner is to take the experiences if life and develop a new knowledge to enhance the life you are living at this moment. This can include more school over and above K-12 and work if necessary.
There is one person in my life that I thought of as a lifelong learner. Not surprisingly, it is the person I'm closest too, my husband! He is always reading something. He knows the strangest tid-bits of information. When we are out he will rattle off some off hand information and people look to me in wonderment of the truth. "I can't make this stuff up!" is my response. He is always encouraging me to continue to learn whether through reading or school or workshops. He is especially proud of me going back to school for this degree of which I feel I'm either relearning what I forgot or missed out in grade school. I am happy to realize that I am a lifelong learner even though it may be unintentional at times. My new goal (See! Too easy.) in life is to make sure I teach and encourage my children to be lifelong learners themselves.
This is what I hear my oldest son yell (because preschoolers only have one volume) on a daily basis. His little brother is not far behind with his bowl full of...energy. I swear I was going to say energy! I always want to play with them, but I can't help but find myself thinking of all the other things I have to do. The laundry and its never ending pile. The dishes that won't clean themselves. The homework I would love to pawn off on my husband, but alas he has his own work to do (Who's idea was it for both of us to go back to school at the same time?). When did playing become such a chore. Maybe I should follow my children and learn to stop and play for the enjoyment of it more often.
As you may have guessed, Playing is the habit I find the hardest to do.
Now the habit I find the easiest is Goals. It is easy to say what you are going to do. It is easy to say when you want to get it done. I find that making the time and effort is where a lot of people fail. Some goals are easy or have short amount of time to accomplish, other are hard or take longer. Some can be funny (I'm going to try and not mess this blog up) some can be serious (I want to learn more about using the web in my classroom) others are your own personal dreams (I want my boys to know I love them).
I once heard a women proclaim that "it isn't worth having dreams anymore". She had really been down in the dumps for a while and found that nothing was coming about in her life at the time. I believe that dreams are another form of goals. Many times a person will have goals to get to their dreams. I found myself really pondering that statement. I believe that you must always have a goal or a dream in life. If you don't have anything to work towards then how do you know where you are going? Its okay if you have goals that don't pan out. Sometimes the dream changes. Sometimes you learn something about yourself.
Being a lifelong learner is an interesting concept. I do not care for the term of learning being integrated with education for this term. Being a lifelong learner does not mean that a person must continually be in school, nor does it mean that they must always being going to training or professional development. Being a lifelong learner is to take the experiences if life and develop a new knowledge to enhance the life you are living at this moment. This can include more school over and above K-12 and work if necessary.
There is one person in my life that I thought of as a lifelong learner. Not surprisingly, it is the person I'm closest too, my husband! He is always reading something. He knows the strangest tid-bits of information. When we are out he will rattle off some off hand information and people look to me in wonderment of the truth. "I can't make this stuff up!" is my response. He is always encouraging me to continue to learn whether through reading or school or workshops. He is especially proud of me going back to school for this degree of which I feel I'm either relearning what I forgot or missed out in grade school. I am happy to realize that I am a lifelong learner even though it may be unintentional at times. My new goal (See! Too easy.) in life is to make sure I teach and encourage my children to be lifelong learners themselves.
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