Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Head's too full!

Sometimes I feel like my head is about to explode...and it's not just the bad headcold I have today. I'm learning so much that I feel like I can't keep up. And yet, I feel like I'm expected to learn so much more! I'm supposed to be expanding my learning community to the online one, but I don't even use all the stuff I'm getting from my colleagues and classmates as it is, so why would I look for even more to not do? I thought I was doing an okay job on my inquiry and putting together my summary, but after an evening of discussion, feedback and looking at other's WOW! presentations, I feel very stupid. Will I ever get it right?

I'm too much of a "right answer/wrong answer" type of person. Or maybe it's just that I was taught that way, and being a fairly bright student back in the day, fortunately, I was mostly on the right column all the way through school. Now with inquiry based learning, I realize I'll never come to an end point. Even with our summary and final assignment, it's just called a "working portfolio". And part of that portfolio is to identify further learnings/wonderings/research we'd like to tackle next. Will I never arrive??

I think I did learn something of value today from my peer. She showed me how to take a picture of my computer screen -- it's called a screen shot. I had always thought it was only available to those superior MAC users, but apparently Windows does it, too. So I might use that in my portfolio. It'll come in handy and save some steps. Don't need to copy and paste...just take a screen shot and there it is, ready to be used however I want.

Anyways...guess I should work on my portfolio... wish me luck!