Category: technology
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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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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…
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Do I know something new?
A couple years ago, I read this competency for my Ed I class as a new seminary student: Familiar with basic faith nurture and learning theories: faith development over the life cycle, multiple intelligences, constructivist learning design (eg Parker Palmer’s community of truth model), developmental learning principles, cross cultural learning,…
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it feels like the first time- all over again- starting a new degree
You would think that once you have been to a couple of colleges, they all would start to have a large degree of commonality. Not so. I am floundering around again to learn new terms for a new college and, in the mindset of BK, doing it “their way.” Let…
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