Week 2 -- Things #3 & #4

My blog is posted and registered with Ravenaboutweb2.0, and I feel a bit relieved. For several weeks I've been procrastinating, and trying to make an avatar without registering with Yahoo, but finally bit the bullet and used the suggested avatar creator. I didn't want do sign up for yet another web-based service provider who would have my name, but trying to use other avatar-creating sites was very cumbersome. Thank you for introducing me to Yahoo's service, and its useful creator, it was simple, once I got rid of that feeling of constraint. Now I will see if I can delete my name from them! So, I guess there's another habit I need to work on: #3, view obstacles as Learning experiences, one I thought I was positive about!
I hope to hear from some of you to commiserate our challenges that provide us with new ideas!

Week 1 #1 Getting Started

Hi, as you'll notice, I don't do things in sequential order as requested, like creating the blog (#3), then reading the 7 Habits (#2), and now Getting Started(#1)...don't know if there is a Week 1 #1, but everyone else has one, so why not?
I've read the Web 2.0 text, and find that it is a great reminder of how far educational technology has come since the Apple IIe...the locus of control, as LOGO always promised, is finally in the learners' hands. The creative commons is surely in the hands of our students.
I enrolled in this course to learn more about ever-changing technology that seems seamless to our students. I want to use the tools to learn to podcast, develop an online media literacy course, and have fun. I hope to do that this summer, although it's quickly slipping away!

Week 1 #2--Lifelong Learning

After viewing the 7 Habits of Lifelong Learning, I find that the hardest thing to do is to avoid the temptation to attain goals in a scatter shot manner, like leaping ahead to lesson 3 when I've not started lesson one. Perhaps that's the hardest habit for me, #1--begin with the end in mind, and determining the steps in a sequential manner to achieve the goal. Although I try to do that when teaching and project planning, I get easily sidetracked, with all the ideas, conversations and activities going on out there. I do not consider myself a random learner, but rather a sequential, organized one. Perhaps I learn more like a flow chart..if this interests me, I'll go there, never mind that I've skipped the first step, and missed out on important information.
The easiest habit, perhaps because it comes naturally for me, is #3, to view problems as challenges, opportunities to learn. I enjoy learning, the growth and mind-expanding prospects of knowing about new ideas and interaction with them and the possibilities that exist.