Thing #1

I feel like a lifelong learner in every aspect of the word—even in the comical sense.  I have been in school FOREVER! Well, that is not necessarily the whole truth. I did spend the first 18 years of my life doing Habit 7 ½; yes, I was an academic nincompoop that just wanted to play. I won’t go there though, since this is property of the “dubbaya, dubbaya, dubbaya”—just know that I will never run for President of the United States.    

In all seriousness…

Lifelong learning for someone in education is such an essential obligation. If you can’t be committed to continuously acquiring new knowledge, teaching is not the vocation for you. Technology in the classroom is just one of those pieces of knowledge that makes for a stronger learning experience and EDUC 5540 has its place in that experience.

For this blog, we were asked which of the 7 ½ habits were easiest and hardest for us. As teachers we are always supposed to start on a positive note; therefore, I think the easiest habit for me would be to teach and mentor others (Habit 7). I love to collaborate with my peers and show them what I know. I want to learn new things from them as well. We all have something new and fresh to bring into the classroom—some more than others. I also know that we all have periods in our lives when we feel stagnant with nowhere to turn.  That is when the little annoyance fairy (me) will pop in your room with something exciting and outrageous.

My worst habit of the 7 ½ is creating the toolbox (Habit 5). It’s not that I haven’t started my education toolbox, but I have those tools scattered all over the place, and most of the time can’t find them anywhere. My organizational skills parallel the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas:”  9 unlabeled CD-RWs, 8 random flash drives, 7 lost file folders, 6 favorite saves on the toolbar, and 5 different Gmail accounts…you can imagine the rest.

On a happier note, I enjoyed setting this blog up with my EDUC 5540 Thing-A-Ma-Jig friend, K.M. She and I will probably exasperate our professor by having way too much fun!