So I registered my blog last week but I'm just posting this Thing today because I had to go to the 23 Things page and look at every Thing and write down the instructions on a piece of paper which I now have in front of me. It is the only way I can keep track of what I'm supposed to do for each Thing!
As a student, I can use a blog to connect with classmates and perhaps discuss an assignment or an issue in the education program. If I can get comments from people who are currently teaching, they might be able to give me insight into how I will apply what I am currently learning in the classroom.
As a teacher, I could use a blog to communicate with parents and students (separate blogs). I could have a classroom blog where students could post relevant thoughts and ideas about subjects we are studying in class, ask questions about homework or even give each other tips on homework and study habits. I believe that sometimes students will emulate other students' study habits rather than take the advice of their teacher or parents.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thing #2 On creating my blog and my avatar
As I mentioned in my blog on Thing #1, I kind of stumbled through creating this blog. I guess it's a good thing this is very user friendly or else I'd still be stumbling around! Despite my feeling of stumbling, creating the blog was not hard, just new.
I didn't get creative with my posting name or the name of my blog primarily because this is for class and everyone in the class (especially the professor) should be able to connect this blog to me. I put apsu in the title in the event that anyone outside of the class ends up reading this they might know that I am a student at Austin Peay.
My avatar--well I wanted my avatar to kind of look like me and I guess it does. To be honest it didn't even occur to me to create an avatar alter ego until after I read the instructions for this post and it asked if your avatar looks totally different. Creating the avatar was fun and I think it would entertaining to occassionally go in and change my avatar's appearance, clothing, etc. I suppose if I had more free time in a day I could update it to reflect my mood everytime I post, but I don't have that kind of time!
I didn't get creative with my posting name or the name of my blog primarily because this is for class and everyone in the class (especially the professor) should be able to connect this blog to me. I put apsu in the title in the event that anyone outside of the class ends up reading this they might know that I am a student at Austin Peay.
My avatar--well I wanted my avatar to kind of look like me and I guess it does. To be honest it didn't even occur to me to create an avatar alter ego until after I read the instructions for this post and it asked if your avatar looks totally different. Creating the avatar was fun and I think it would entertaining to occassionally go in and change my avatar's appearance, clothing, etc. I suppose if I had more free time in a day I could update it to reflect my mood everytime I post, but I don't have that kind of time!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Thing #1
I think the easiest life-long learning habit for me is 7 1/2 - play, be curious, read. Those are things that I love to do and they are especially easy for me right now since I have a 23 month old daughter to play, be curious and read with. I think the hardest for me is 1, set a goal. I know that sounds like it should be easy but when I look back on my life it seems like I've ended up where I am more by accident then by design. Kind of like creating my blog! When I was a kid I admired my older sister because she knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. I had no clue. So many things sounded interesting, how was I supposed to pick just one? I'm not saying I haven't made decisions that have led me to where I am, because I have. I just never had a master plan and my goals seemed to shift as the circumstances of my life changed. So making me sit down and pick a goal, then turn it in to a contract is the hardest habit for me. I do not know why setting a goal is so difficult for me. There is actually a part of me that rebels against it! Perhaps I am defining the term 'goal' to narrowly (is narrowly a word?). I usually have some idea of what I want to accomplish, and an idea of a time frame in which to accomplish that idea, but I don't like the feeling of things set in stone. So my new goal is to learn how to be more effective at setting goals! Good grief, if I can't set a goal for myself how on earth will I ever set one for my students?
What I want to learn about playing with Web 2.0 is how I can find reputable resources. One of my concerns with user created content is precisely that it is user created. I can post whatever I want and claim it is a fact and many people will take that information without doing anything to confirm what I've said, and repeat it as fact simply because they found it on the internet. I have to wonder, is the younger generation more aware that the web can be full of misinformation and outright lies?
So setting up my blog was kind of like falling down a hill. I got from point A to point B but not in the most graceful way! I feel like I kind of stumbled through it and was pleased and surprised that I actually did it!
What I want to learn about playing with Web 2.0 is how I can find reputable resources. One of my concerns with user created content is precisely that it is user created. I can post whatever I want and claim it is a fact and many people will take that information without doing anything to confirm what I've said, and repeat it as fact simply because they found it on the internet. I have to wonder, is the younger generation more aware that the web can be full of misinformation and outright lies?
So setting up my blog was kind of like falling down a hill. I got from point A to point B but not in the most graceful way! I feel like I kind of stumbled through it and was pleased and surprised that I actually did it!
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