I am learning, but probably not at the level that I could be, why…well that is another story. I just have a hard time keeping up with everything. This semester has been very hard for me. Especially in the last week, just got home from the hospital after having emergency surgery. I know that I am not happy that I probably won’t be getting an A, but I guess I would feel better about it if I knew exactly why I wasn’t. I know that my effort hasn’t been so great in the past couple of week due to my health, but that is life. I am not make excuses, it is just life. I could have done a better job and hope to do better in the last couple of weeks.

I recommend picking something that will enhance your classroom experience, and since you like blogging, let your topic tie in with your content area. What is it that you like about blogging? Why is knowing how to blog a useful skill? What benefits does it have?

In response to the discontent person, I appreciate that this person has expressed their frustration with this course, I think that it will help others who are frustrated as well because Nate gives a good answer to their concerns. I do not share the same opinion as this person, as I have gotten a lot of benefit from this class. I do have tools that I can use with my students, the reading has been very beneficial, I love using the reader to keep track of classmates and OLDaily. I find myself taking several hours to do our weekly assignments because I get sidetracked by following hyperlinks within articles. I measure my success with how much new information I gather instead of my grade. My goal when I set out in this program was not to strive for the A, but to do the best I can. In 72 hours of graduate work to date, I have one B (Research Methods), and I realized that I was putting undue stress on myself by working for the A. At this point, if I got a B, it is not going to adversely affect my GPA, and I am not going to lose my job over it. I was brought up in a society that says A or else, and it is not always a true measure of success. It means that you got a certain number of points. My students get A’s, but some of them, when I have them the following year, have forgotten things I have taught them the year before, they memorized and forgot. Did they really learn? That goes back to last week’s postings on learning. How do we know that students are really learning?

So the bottom line is, are you learning, and if not, what can you do to change it so that you are? Communication is key.