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Saturday, 29. June 2002
Learning Highlights

Think about your experience and history as a learner. What story can you tell? Write about your disconnections with learning (the things that cause you grief, create barriers, impede your progress as a learner). Then, write about the tensions and excitements associate with learning. Use specific examples when possible to illustrate your meaning.

What story can I tell about me as a learner? I tried to think about the first lesson I learned, and I was unsuccessful. I can not remember learning much as a kid. I guess it was because I learned most things with ease. I have to study and put some effort into learning; I have never been the type to read something once and then be able to use and apply it, though I often wish I was.

I do not remember learning to read, or write either in print or cursive, or even to add. What I do remember learning was not in school. I remember my mom teaching me Psalms 23, and my dad and my coaches showing me how to catch a fly ball and steal 2nd base. I think that it is so weird that I do not remember learning the majority of the stuff I learned in my younger years in school. I think that I do not remember because it came easy to me. I hardly ever remember getting upset over a grade, or stressing over a class until college.

I have never really struggled with learning anything. Math has always given me fits, though. I remember when I was in third grade, I did not know my multiplication facts and my teacher was going to give us some kind of test on it the next day. I did not sleep much that night; I worried and worried. I kept going over those facts in my head over and over. Instead of counting sheep to get to sleep, I was doing multiplication. I do not remember what I got on that test, but I must have done okay, since I passed third grade. The only thing that I can think of that has impeded my progress as a learner is myself. I can think of many times that I have been too hard on myself and expected too much, or lacked confidence. Almost every time I can think of in which I have had trouble learning, it was with math. I have been thinking about it and I think it all goes back to lack of confidence and too high of expectation. Math has always been tough for me, but thinking about it I was never in a general math class. Once I hit middle school, I was in the advanced math classes. It’s weird to me now, that I think I am so bad in math, yet I have always been in the classes with the “smart kids”. I guess that I am what holds me back. Take the example I just gave, my teachers were confident even with my skills to put me in Honors math classes, but I lacked the belief that I could do it. I think that is why I struggle with learning when I do, because I am insecure with my skills as a learner.

Learning can be so rewarding. I get really excited when I am taking a test and I am like “Wow, I really know this stuff”, or when I get involved in an educated conversation with someone about something that I have learned. One example of the latter happened to me last semester when I was volunteering at Health South. A lady was had been admitted to Health South around Christmas, I think it was. She had been there before over the summer for something, I think it was knee surgery or something like that. This time she was in because she had had a stroke. I could tell a HUGE difference in her. I had remembered her from the first time she was there. She was one of the patients that I liked and talked to. Anyway, I do not remember the exact deficits she had or what kind of a stroke she had experienced, but I got into two interesting conversations about her. One was with her brother and the other was with another OT. I remember leaving there that day so excited because I could actually apply what I had learned in Neurogenics class to a real situation in a real conversation, one with a professional.

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Week 3: NO MORE TEARS!!!

The format of my journal has been changed this week. For the past two weeks, this opening paragraph has been reserved for complaints. I am happy to report that this week has been virtually stress free! Amazing...I have no complaints!

I started the week out with the goal of finishing Kiss the Girls and completing all of the assignments for this class. I am very close to accomplishing those two goals. I am hoping to finish the book tomorrow and then assignments today. I guess you can say that I have goals within goals because I have goals for completing these assignments. This week, I wanted to develop a really interesting essential question, find a good professional mailing list to subscribe to, search the web for good resources, and create a cool webliography.

The hardest thing about this week, was the essential question. Most of the assignments for this week could not be completed if I did not have a good question. I ended up changing my question this week and I am happy I did. I have found a lot of good information this week. The assignment about Foundation Questions took a while for me to complete. I had just settled on a topic when I went to tackle this assignment. It helped me narrow down my question, I hope now that it is not too narrrow. After settling on a essential question, the rest of the assignments were fairly easy to complete, though time consuming.

Finding a professional mailing list about Laryngectomies was harder than I thought it would be. There were not very many out there. I ended up subscribing to one about Laryngeal Cancer. I also subscribed to a voice list, but this list must be very low volume because I have yet to receive an email from them. Searching on this topic was easy. There is tons of information available on recovering voice after a laryngectomy.

I have not quite finished the writing assignments for Learning Needs and Learning Highlights. I expect to finish those soon. I have read the articles for Learning Needs a few times, and I am still collecting thoughts and thinking of a good prompt (especially since Laura stole my prompt idea). I am having trouble answering the Learning Highlights prompt, simply because I can not think of very many instances were I remember learning. Oh, I know that I have learned a lot in my lifetime, I just can not remember the actual process of learning the lessons.

My favorite part of the assignments this week was completing my Webliography. It was time consuming, but I like doing stuff like that. I like creating web pages and stuff like that.

So, through all of the work I did this week, what did I learn? I learned that I should feel pretty confident in my computer skills. I subscribed to the professional mailing list and searched on my topic with very few problems (other than deciding on an essential question). I also finished my Webliography without any problems. I also learned, through what I have written on the Learning Highlights, that I need to be more confident with myself. I can see now that the times I have struggled with learning have been the times when I have not believed in myself, or when I put set goals that are too high for myself. Overall, this week has been the best of the three. I have been much more relaxed, and there have been no tears.

The only question I have is how to make your email a link. Like how can I type my email address and let someone click on it to email me?

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