Jul 30 2007
First day w/Geoff
I like this first day of class. I liked watching GS go clickety-click fast as we watched him set up stuff and figured to myself, “Hey, if he can do this, I can do this.” Probably not as fast and not as thoroughly and not as adeptly. But. Eventually. I. Can. Do. This. And, that empowers me.
I want to be able to use this tool w/my students. I’m doing a semester w/7th graders at SWMS this fall, and I wanna be able to use these tools w/them, to encourage them to blog, thus encourage their writing, and to read what they write.
Until today I’ve had a disdainful attitude abt blogs, bloggers, thought, “HOW narcissistic!” Hah! Our lives ARE narcissistic. Who’s running around inside our brains all the time, anyway? Only ONE person, and that wud be moi. Humans are wired for narcissism. Nobody else runs our show, the movie of our lives, unless we give our power away.
When the focus is sharing and connecting, narcissism is a nonissue.
I’m excited about what we’re doing, and I say thank you, Geoff!
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I actually blog to share and to document what I’ve done so that I’ll remember later what it is. It is not really about narcissism and I think that is the case for most of the edubloggers I know — they are all just really normal, cool people.
Good luck!