Masters Degree, Class Three Week One!

I have arrived at the end of week one of my third class on my Masters of Education program and just submitted my first assignment about Critical Thinking and responded to my discussion posts.

What I learned this week was that I once again was amazed at the learning technologies that I don't know about. The Cloud and geotagging were all concepts I didnt know about and now understand. I was amazed to discover that Flickr has over 100 million items geotagged as of July 2010. Diigo.com was my new favorite find. Wow, it answers all of my bookmarking needs and answers the organizational need I had been struggling with. Finding Moodle is now my resource to write my Stronger than Espresso courses. I can use the free resources to create my online course program.

I couldn't receive my masters degree any other way but online due to my schedule. The last two weeks have included, I completed my second class final paper, submitted the paper to my boss for review into our curriculum, taught classes for 40+ hours, had 20 people from my husband's family staying at our house for a 10-day period, had my son's 3rd birthday party and my daughter was recovering from the croup. Somewhere in that, I got larygitis and taught a 40 hour class from a whisper. Needless to say, I survived and enjoyed my way through all of the challenges with a smile. God whispered and told me to go for this degree and I cried and said it would be hard, but he said he would be there.

What are you learning in your life that is making a difference?

Brooke