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!