A Quote I love...

Those things that make for the genuinely good life--Close relationships, a hope-filled faith, positive traits, engaging activity--are enduringly sustainable. ----David G. Myers

Just felt like saying I'm amazingly grateful for the people in my life!

That is all.

What's your passion?

I added this question to the introduction discussion topic post in D2L for all my classes (online & face to face). I was amazed at all of the responses. I can't believe how this one question really seemed to open up all my students to each other. Awesome!

Black Mesa

I'm grateful that I have such an awesome little family. Had a great first day of the new year, first checking out the night sky as seen without city lights interfering. Did you know that there are a whole lot of stars out there, and they really do twinkle? Got to see the Milky Way Galaxy!!! Spent the night at a great B&B and started the morning off with an awesome breakfast and even got blessed. Woohoo! I got to go back to bed while Hubby and the kids went and hiked for 5 hours and spent some time at the highest elevation in Oklahoma! Yay! Oh, and took the dog with us and she did great too! Now home and happy and looking forward to making 2014 into a fabulous year!

Grateful I know the difference between shame and guilt! I am Shameless!

I heard this on Brene Brown's Ted talk: Listening to shame.

Shame=I am a mistake. I am bad.
Guilt=I made a mistake. I did something bad.

I also like this guy's epiphany when he saw her talk.

MOOC's An amazing 21st century phenomenon!

I am so grateful that I have discovered MOOC's (Massive Open On-line Courses)! Why?
One: I can take actual Stanford, Harvard, MIT, etc. classes taught by leaders in the various fields I find interesting ;)
Two: They give me ideas for my own online teaching.
Three: I can take refresher courses with updated and current information for classes I took years ago.
Four: I can take classes I never had the time or money to take before, so I didn't worry about it at the time because although I found some things interesting, they weren't needed for the degree I was working on at the time.
Five: To be able to take college level courses for free from esteemed institutions of higher education just to expand my knowledge and understanding of the universe is so amazing!

I have enough paper, just to learn to learn without an agenda is such a freeing and exciting feeling!

So far I've been playing in the edX, Coursera, and Khan playgrounds!

Grateful that I don't know it all, and I can gain knowledge from everyone I meet