Technology Reflections

I normally don’t make resolutions, because I tend to break them so why set myself up for failure, right?

But there was something I have been noticing lately. I have been reading many blogs, but not writing very much in my own.

So my resolution is to write here more often.

I still have another week of vacation, so the next week might still be spotty, but after that I will write more often than I have been.

OK – five things about me that you all wish you knew

1) I almost quit teaching at one point. Thank goodness I figured out that it wasn’t what I was doing, but where I was doing it that was the problem. Each job after that revelation was a better place and made me a better teacher. I think that the job I have now is my final one – I have finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up

2) I’m an only child. I always wanted more siblings, but that was out of my hands. Actually, I always wanted an older brother – that wasn’t going to happen as I was my parents first try . I tell people who ask my opinion about being an only child, not to have just one. I found it to be a lonely childhood and now as an adult, as I contemplate my parents getting older, I have no one to help me with the responsibilities or to share my fears of my parents growing older.

3) I almost didn’t become a teacher. I was absolutely, horribly frightened by the prospect of student teaching. So I actually came into teaching through the ‘back door’, as I like to call it. My undergraduate degree is in Psychology and I have an M.Ed. in Special Education. My graduate program allowed me to get teacher certification in Severe Special Needs without an undergraduate degree in Education so I never had to do Student Teaching . In the state I teach in now I have certification in what is called Varying Exceptionalities, which allows me to teach almost anything Special Ed, and a Reading Endorsement, which is like having a Master’s in Reading, but it was only 15 credits. I don’t currently use my Special Ed certification. I teach Computers and Reading in a Middle School.

4) You’d never know I used to be shy and afraid to talk in public if you knew me in person now – I can talk anyone’s ear off. Last night at a New Year’s Eve party I realized I was babbling away to someone I’d just met – I have yet to figure out how to gracefully stop talking once I realize that I’ve gone into babble mode

5) I am a beer snob. I love what I call ‘real beer’ and I love finding new beer. Budweiser, Miller and those types of beers are NOT real beer. Some of my favorite beers are (in no particular order) Guinness, Bass, Sam Adams, Magic Hat, Newcastle, DeChutes – oh I know I’m leaving out so many. If anyone has any beer recommendations for me, I’d love try some new ones.

OK so those are 5 things you never knew about me. I’ve been thinking long and hard about who to tag with this, but so many people have been tagged, and some have decided to tag themselves, that I’m going to break tradition and not tag anyone in particular, but to say that anyone who chooses to should share 5 things about themselves.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!