Does your head feel like it’s going to explode? Can you not find the right words for anything? Does it seem like parts of your world are crashing in? It sounds like you have a case of the retrograde’s!
I promise I am not a supper hippie or anything like that, but I do think anyone who has ever been in a brick and mortar classroom with children will not deny the power of the moon (and such). I cannot count how many times I looked around the my class and said, “Is it a full moon or something?!” and sure enough!
When mercury is in retrograde, technology goes wonky, words get jumbled, things just feel a little chaotic… Just what I needed at the end of the summer. Luckily, we’re on the tail end of it and I feel myself balancing out.
All of this is a long-winded way of saying that one of the most immediate benefits of this program for me is being on the other side of the screen. I hold my students to high expectations… and I plan to continue doing so… but being a student working in a completely online format has been eye-opening. It has taught me how overwhelming things can be and how intimidating at times it is to email a professor or instructor. In some ways I feel like it has taken me a lot longer to connect with peers and teachers and feel safe asking questions and sharing thoughts. It’s easy for life to get in the way… to forget to complete every task… to get distracted with another open browser (thanks Amazon)… to run into tech issues (thanks Mercury)…but overall I do love the freedom. It’s important to end on that note. Focusing on the positive and the fact that sometimes I read my textbook on the beach while my kids boogie board. Often times I blog with a cup of coffee on my patio listening to the birds on a Sunday morning. We really are coming into a new age of teaching and learning and it’s exciting. Overwhelming and stressful, but exciting. Now if only Mercury would stay out of it…
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