After viewing the information on being a life long learner, I realized a couple of things about myself. First of all, the most difficult habit for me to master is #4- having confidence in myself as a competent and effective learner. I can not remember a time that I did not deal with poor self esteem which has caused my confidence to be very low in all aspects of life. As I have gotten older, my self esteem has become a little better. I am not sure if it is just a sign of my own maturity and that of those around me or the fact that having kids makes you say and do things you never thought you could. Whatever the reason for the improvement, I am hopeful that it will continue and I will be able to remove habit #4 from my problem list. Secondly, I found the easiest habit of a life long learner for me to follow is #1-begin with an end in mind/set goals. I am a wonderful goal setter! Unfortunately, I am terrible at following through. I find myself setting goals and then getting side tracked or depressed when things are not going as quickly as I would like. As I am writing this, I am beginning to see how my patience needs to improve. If I work on my patience, then I will be able to complete my set goals without loss of focus or getting upset.
I am looking forward to completing the 23 things and learning about the Web 2.0 tools. It will be nice to see, play with, and learn about the different free services available to me as a new teacher. I found the first few steps of this process to be rather easy. The blog set up just took a moment and was basically point and click. The hardest part of this is going to be the actual blogging. It was difficult to share the beginning of this post and I am sure some of the ones to come. I do not find it easy to open up and talk/"blog" to everyone. Hopefully, that will become easier too.
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