Blog Post # 8

How writers used to dream and how they should dream collide in these videos. The first one was about incremental changes and the second video was about fundamental changes in how writers and teachers should approach this new era of creativity. Honestly, I didn't quite grip the new concept of technology he was talking about. I understand that audio helps with things and pretty visuals are alluring too. And I understand how a lot of books and journals are on the web as well as in hard print, more so probably on the web. It sounded like he was talking about somehow putting book books on the web too, I mean, I could be wrong, that's just how that one part came across. Using media tools and designs are great ideas for teaching and getting points across in short snippets. And the web is great for research and up to the minute statistics. I'm not quite sure how using those kind of tools would help a novelist though as much as it would help a teacher...








The CHIPPER video made some good points about not procrastinating and pointing out the struggle that a lot of us deal with in this class, like time management and not learning in the traditional way we are used to. Some of the other things seemed a little extreme. Personally I think online classes and online degrees take a lot more disciple to accomplish and self-manage, it baffles me that a character like her would complete it to be able to go back to school school for her Masters. I mean, i got the idea of it all, but they were still pretty extreme situations...and for the record, my dad did drive trucks, roadoff trucks, dumptrucks or however you would call them...garbage trucks, and no, my dad doesn't have a high school education, but while he was at work, he helped a lot of people and encouraged them and made them laugh, everywhere he goes, people love him. So even though most people consider jobs like that "low" jobs, someone has to do them, and some of them don't mind doing them or think they are "low" in society b/c they do have jobs like that. I know that's neither hear nor there b/c the point of the video was to not procrastinate and to be responsible, but as future educators we have to be aware of any and all plausible sensitive issues.



There isn't much to say about this video other than the fact that I concur :) I do feel extremely frustrated at times and I think my time management is a little better, but not great and I'm still confused about what to do and how to prove the progress for my PLN.