Whew!!!

As I try to get up to speed, I think about how my students must feel when I introduce them to something new. This week I have learned how to create and add to my own blog, which I love. A lover of writing, I thought I had to give it up when I started teaching ten years ago, at least writing about what I am feeling or thinking or experiencing. I have learned to use video conferencing which was really fun once I started to get the hang of it. Believe it or not (as much as I thought I was a Tech savvy person) some of the things I am doing in this class I never thought about doing until now. I have thought about video conferencing with other classrooms across the country and world,but hsd never tried video conferencing period, until this week. What a rush.

I have almost always instinctively know how to install software and had a 100% success rate until this week when I was beat up by a Microsoft Lifecam VX3000 camera and microphone combo. I am still nursing my black eye, swollen lip and twisted arm. Boy, oh boy did she get me good, I didn't even see it coming. I took the bandage off of my ego this evening when I came home from school.

I collaborated with my team members Andrew and Trish to write a paper online using google docs and was amazed to see Trish editing one part of the paper while I writing in a different section on the same paper at the same time. I can't wait to show this trick to my students. Once I am a little more sure of myself.

In addition to learning these new skills, which seems like second nature to many, I am struggling to keep up and catch up with the workload, but my love of learning and meeting a challenge keeps me going. When I go back to class on Monday, I will go back seeing my glass as half full and my plate as running over. Class # two starts Monday at 8. Can anyone say whew!!!