Thing #1

Going through the 7 1/2 Habits tutorial was interesting. I never really thought about learning as a life long thing. I more associate it with the classroom. That's one of the reasons I found this tutorial was helpful. I have found that by thinking about strengths and weaknesses it helps you grow. So picking out mine was more of a mini-soul search into what I do find I'm best and worst at.

A big weakness I find myself having was #2. Online classes have always been a weakness and I think that shows that I am lacking in the accepting responsibility for my own learning department. I seem to always get caught up either in daily responsibilities from being a mother,wife, homemaker or simply just procrastination. Sometimes I find myself making excuses about things I've put off, especially in school or anything that has to do with my own personal growth. The truth is that really, that there are no excuses and I need to do a better job at accepting my own learning responsibilities to become the best me and teacher that I can.

On the other hand, the thing that comes easiest for me, or my strength, is #7. I am constantly finding myself helping and teaching others around me. It makes me happy to show someone something they didn't know and then getting to see the lightbulb go off when the do understand it. I guess the reason #7 comes easiest for me is because I enjoy it so much. It's one of the biggest reasons I want to be a teacher.

I want to find more educational websites from Web 2.0 tools. In particular, not just for when I'll be teaching, but also websites that are preschool appropriate to help my sons.

Setting up the blog was fun. It wasn't hard at all. I enjoyed writing this entry and felt as though I was talking directly to people. Knowing someone will read it makes me feel good and inspires me to put meaningful information in it. Not just for the assignment, but so other people can get to know me a little.