#6

I nearly skipped an assignment! Eeek! I added some photos using Flickr (#5) and I talked about the technology stuff (#7). As far as #6 goes....I think those Zazzle Postage Stamps that they show in the tour -- omigosh! I am so going to try that once I get a little smarter about all this!!!! I am an avid letter-writer and if it's not overly expensive, I could really get into sending postage stamps that have personal photos on them. That is completely incredible. I'm going to track down the website and find out more about it.

Technology Interests Assignment

By the way, I posted the photos with Flickr....that was fun! I don't understand 1/2 the stuff I'm doing, but it seems to be working, so hey! As for the assignment of posting a blog about TECHNOLOGY - it just baffles me as to how all these totally different sites talk to each other and I just have to click a few buttons and type of few things and voila! it's all linked together! It sort of scares me too because it seems quite unsecure. Since I am so INSECURE with all of this TECHNOLOGY, I'm wondering how safe it all is. Anyone care to put my mind at ease???

Grammy's 94th Bday Luau, 8/7/04

family
Originally uploaded by brooksk1967

This was only moments after I broke my ACL. You can't see it but my ice pack is sitting on the step below me, behind Ben. Hard to believe that's been nearly 3 years ago!

Mother's Day picture 2007

Mother's Day picture 2007
Originally uploaded by brooksk1967

This is one of my favorite photos ever!

Chinese Horoscope...

It's so comforting to me to know I was born in the Year of the Sheep. Baaaaaah.

Awkward

This seems to be a very user-UNfriendly site. I posted a blog and everything else seems to come up as comments. Not sure if I'm posting correctly or not. Here was the assignment info I posted last week....but it was under comments, not the "blog" area.
Easiest Habit for me is 7 1/2 -- PLAY! I'm a visual learner. I cannot read directions very easily and figure out what I'm supposed to do. If someone will sit down with me and SHOW me what to do, then I will play play play and figure it out from there. I usually have a lot of questions though! The workshops will be helpful, but I'm probably not patient enough to wait until then. The hardest "habit" for me -- probably #4 -- having confidence in myself as a competent, effective learner. I'm a high maintenance learner when it comes to technology and need guided, hands-on teaching. All this new stuff is scary to me. I feel stupid and ineffective. I need someone holding my hand and showing me what to do.

June 12, 2007

Three hours ago I didn't even fully understand what a BLOG was. Now I've created one. How scary is that?! I might actually learn how to do some of these new-fangled things and actually understand what my students and my husband are talking about! Until now it's all been a foreign language to me.
Will wonders never cease?