Hello and Welcome Friends!

I’ve never had a blog before, and most of my experience reading them is when searching for new cooking recipes. To be honest, it drives me nuts when I find this amazing recipe for a new buddha bowl or stir fry but I need to scroll through endless text about how they dropped their kid off at soccer practice that day before they show the recipe. Most of the time though it is worth it if I get to make a new yummy dinner, and some of the most verbose bloggers have the most delicious ideas. I spent so much time last week watching youtube tutorials about wordpress and exploring my blog that I forgot to make a post! So apologies that this one is late, but I would like to reflect on September 11th’s class and our homework for the week.

The course started off pretty intense, with what felt like a list of 50 tasks and apps and new software to explore. Once I got down to the list though it quickly felt less intimidating as I slowly checked off each item as I set up Twitter and all the others. I am also excited about the pass/fail aspect of the course, as the stress of wanting an A is off your plate. This will be a great example of the work you put in will be the skill and knowledge you get out.

I really enjoyed watching the movie “Most Likely to Succeed” this past week. When the movie started, it sounded a bit hokey. No exams, no tests, no classic lecture sounds pretty wild to me. How were the kids going to get any learning done, or be knowledgeable enough in university? As the movie progresses however it started changing my opinion. The kids were so engaged in their classes and were excited to learn! Their teachers were so passionate about the subject material, and helping their students develop their “soft skills” like teamwork and confidence. I teared up at the end when the young boy after weeks of trying finally got his piece to fit. One critique I would have with that style of schooling however is the costs associated. Those students were working with very expensive equipment and technology that is not available in the budget of public schooling. It’s amazing to see them so engaged, but we as teachers would need to find creative methods with a lower price tag to truly include this in the public system.

That’s all for this week folks! To learn about my Free Inquiry Project, please head over to my Pottery Project tab, and if you would like to learn a bit more about me and my path to teaching please check out the “About Me” section of my blog. In the interest of striving to be more multimodal and to give everyone a smile, here’s a short clip of a dog who is SO EXCITED to eat their dinner 🙂

Here’s a blog of a woman who has awesome recipes without too much chatting: