Week 7 Response

I enjoyed the active nature of the game from the presentation. Although at times it was a little heated.

The library presentation was a useful starting point. It was very helpful, to me, to hear a little of the differences in the different journal/article searches. I'd been just randomly choosing something and now I have a little focus. It would be expecting miracles for me to have more than a little focus these days.

I quite enjoyed reworking someone else's lesson plans. It's fun to take something and change it a little bit, with the goal of maintaining the author's intent. I hope that when the other group looks at what we came up with they can still recognize their original lesson. I have to say it was tough to change, because theirs was a lot of fun. I think we did change the target level, yet maintained the fun.

Confession time, I hate to blog (sorry Chris and others). I hated keeping journals in the past, I occasionally try to force myself to do so. I just hate it. A blog is so much like a journal only rather public. I find it invasive. I enjoy my privacy, yet have no qualms about sharing my thoughts in person. Perhaps that is the performer in me. I worry that things I write will be misunderstood because I have such a clear voice in my head (my own voice, not the kind that tell me to do things) that is full of sarcasm, tenderness, laughter etc. I often find myself misunderstood and I don't like that. When I speak, the tone of my voice fills in the blanks that writing leaves. I could fill them in, in writing, but I'd sound downright silly (she said seriously).