Oh, golly! It has taken me almost five hours, but I've created a blog and an avatar. . . now let's see if I can do the next thing and get it registered. It took a couple of tries, but I really like what I have created so far. My students are going to just die laughing when they see Nana Bookbug's Reading Room, but I think they might be just a bit proud of me too. :)
Monday, June 9, 2008
Thing #2
Let's see. . . the easiest and the hardest habits for me as a lifelong learner? Does easiest mean the one that comes most naturally? If that's the case, I would have to say that teaching and mentoring comes the most easily to me. I have always tended to teach anything I am learning to someone else... maybe that is why I have been a special ed teacher for the past 29 years. :) Even when I haven't been active in the classroom, I have been involved in teaching through Scouts, church, in my home with my own children, with my friends.
As for the hardest habit for me. . . it's kind of tied between two. Life has presented me with some ongoing challenges and responsibilities that have really made me forget how to play. . . now that I am grandmother to a beautiful 13 month old, I am rapidly relearning that habit. So I probably would have to say that habit #6, using technology to my advantage, is the hardest habit for me. After all, I was graduating from high school when businesses were buying computers that required huge, cold rooms to house them. Who would have thought then that computers would be so small now? And who would have thought that the world of computers would have such a complex language connected to it? Part of what I know I have learned by playing around on the computer, part I have learned from classes or my own children, part I have learned from or right alongside my students. Hopefully, I will bring back something from this that I can share with my students. . . something that will not only help me use technology more to my advantage, but to also help them use technology more to their advantage. Old dogs (and teachers) can learn new tricks!!
As for the hardest habit for me. . . it's kind of tied between two. Life has presented me with some ongoing challenges and responsibilities that have really made me forget how to play. . . now that I am grandmother to a beautiful 13 month old, I am rapidly relearning that habit. So I probably would have to say that habit #6, using technology to my advantage, is the hardest habit for me. After all, I was graduating from high school when businesses were buying computers that required huge, cold rooms to house them. Who would have thought then that computers would be so small now? And who would have thought that the world of computers would have such a complex language connected to it? Part of what I know I have learned by playing around on the computer, part I have learned from classes or my own children, part I have learned from or right alongside my students. Hopefully, I will bring back something from this that I can share with my students. . . something that will not only help me use technology more to my advantage, but to also help them use technology more to their advantage. Old dogs (and teachers) can learn new tricks!!
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