Category: seminary
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the dream of a garden memorial
I dreamt that I walked in soft green grass,the whisper of wind in the trees.The flowers all nodded their sweet helloas they welcomed the buzzing of bees. I dreamt of a tree whose leaves unfurledand gathered my sorrow withinAnd took it from me and gave me insteadpeace and innocent comfort…
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One more post seems impossible
I am supposed to write one more blog post for my class project. Somehow though, as I sat here taking a break and surfing my facebook community I learned a close friend lost her battle with cancer today. My heart is broken. I want to hit this screen and yet-…
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A gift to me, for me, this year
In our Luther Seminary portfolios, we are asked by professor Mary Hess to include competencies. These fall into three categories, knowledge, attitude and skill. In my second semester, under knowledge competency 1B, which is“Familiar with basic faith nurture and learning theories: faith development over the life cycle, multiple intelligences, constructivist…
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A thing learned… a joy, a sorrow
Time moves on- a restless, ever moving, ever changing, never changing entity, one we cannot ignore or hide from. “From that one experience, a finger touching a flame, a person learns countless things.”~ A New Culture of Learning It has been a joy to share my blog in a new…
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Trade of the internet-privacy for agency
How do we gain agency in a world that seems to take joy in making more rules and taking away more personal freedom in the name of communal freedoms? What would our world look like right now without the internet? What has gotten better because of the internet? Have we…
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Knowing how…
“Knowing how is more important than simply knowing that.” ~Mary Hess Indeed. For years I knew that rearing children is hard. Knowing how it is hard is what helps me get through it. It is in the knowing how that I am able to find what is going wrong and…
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The New Introvert- or rather "Net-rovert"
“It requires more work on the part of networked individuals to make their way successfully in an always-on, quickly moving world, and a new set of norms and skills-just as the transition from rural, agrarian life to urban, industrial life required.” In his book, NetSmart, How to Thrive Online, Howard…
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Collective Learning and Cohorts- A new way to Mastering Divinity
“As the name implies, it is a collection of people, skills, and talent that produces a result greater than the sum of its parts.” In their book, A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown take on the idea of learning in a ‘world of constant change’.…
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The Hopeful Side of Experience
The other day I posted about how experience and being ‘connected’ are two very different things on the internet. Although I meant every word of what I said, there is another side to the story, a side that I like to call hopefulness. The sunny side. I live my life…
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Does connection mean experience?
Well I am “connected”, does that count?I tweet, I am on facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, classmates, Skype, and cafe-mom to name a fewI have learned by blackboard on tiger-tracks, on myluthernet and more with classmates in Turkey, Norway, Australia and China.I blog on blogger, yelp, and google+. I share books and…
Mistress of Divinity 