Week 3, Thing #7
Technology is wonderful. I love it, but I also find it very time consuming. I spend lots of time weeding through e-mails, both at work and at home. As I've been reading online for this course, I've found that time slipped by quickly. One link led to another and another and before I knew it, hours had passed.
When I'm working on a exercise, I know how I want it to look, but it isn't always easy for me to make it happen. If it doesn't look like I want it to look, I often spend more time than I should trying to figure out how to do what I want to do. This goes back to one of my 7 1/2 Life Long Learning Traits: View problems as challenges. When I can't do what I want to do, I have a hard time giving up. The problem becomes a challenge that I must complete. I always learn a lot in the process, but I sometimes wonder if it is the best use of my time.
I really haven't gotten into reading blogs and I'm a little hesitant to start. I'm afraid that it will be addictive and I'll spend more time reading than I should.
This course is taking more time than I anticipated. It's good that it was offered in the summer when I have a little more time. I'm not a third of the way through and my summer is over. I may have to set some guidelines for how long I can devote to exploring each topic.
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Blogs can eat up your time, so I've kind of prioritized my blog reading so that I read the ones I really think are important every day and check in every once in a while on some other ones that I like. Daily reads for me are: 2Cents Worth, Blue Skunk Blog, LeaderTalk, Joyce Valenza's NeverendingSearch, Weblogg-ed, Cool Cat Teacher & Dangerously Irrelevant. These are the real power thinkers for me--people like Warlick, McCleod, Doug Johnson, Valenza , etc.
You're right though, as school starts, I really have to think out and plan for time most days to at least check in on these blogs. I really think it's worth the time though, if only to remind me that there is a bigger picture than my small library. These thinkers are really great synthesizers--they pull so much together for me.
I hope having the Google reader will actually help me take time to read blogs. I like the idea of having all of that information at my fingertips. Before I didn't even know where to start. Now I do.
Thanks for the blog suggestions, particularly Blue Skunk Blog. That is the one that had all of the information about NECC that helped me decide that I wanted to go. I've included Warlick and Valenza, but I'll check out the others.
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