Posting Time Is Here Again

Well, before I move ahead to the next lesson on Flickr, I thought I would give myself a review of the intricacies of blog posting. I did go through Flickr and look at some pictures, but after you've seen a few pictures, you know it's time to move on to the next step, which I am afraid will entail bumping into an instruction that will not be fully explained, which will mean I will have to try and fail at one thing and then another and then ask someone else if they think they can figure it out, and then finally getting it figured out and congratulating myself on plowing through a challenge which could have been avoided with better instructions. I guess it's like thinking of being in a war as a teaching experience while at the same time knowing we would all just be better off without it. Well, today is post day. Tomorrow I look again at the Flickr instructions and see if they make much sense. Later.

If it isn't one thing, it's another.

Every day I am learning something new in this excursion into the wonderful world of Web 2.0. (Can't wait for Web 3.0.) This morning I played with Flickr for the first time. Then I added a few features to this blog. It took several tries just to get in, and I had to get my password changed and fail to log in several times under several user names until succeeding by typing in exactly the same thing I had typed in before and failed. Or so I think. This is going to take some getting used to. Being used to things is easy. Stumbling and falling is not. I am going to stop this now.

Hello again!

Well, you didn't expect me to say much more than that, did you? I may be old fashioned, but bloggers are awfully public about their personal lives. I suppose if they were older they would know better. I mean, I might want to be President some day. So I'm not going to pile on any dirt anyone can dig up later. That's just foolhardy.

But this blog is an assignment in learning about Web 2.0. (I can hardly wait for Web. 3.0.) And I'm supposed to write my reactions to yesterday's lesson on the 71/2 habits of highly effective lifelong learners. Specifically, which habit is easiest and which is the most difficult. Well, that pretty much speaks for itself, I think. I mean, the easiest, of course is the first, Begin with the end in mind. Only breathing is easier than putting a thought into one's mind. I might decide, for example, that the end goal is to be a billionaire. That's easy. The other habits, which are steps toward reaching that goal, are more difficult to a greater or lesser degree. The most difficult of the habits is Teach/mentor others. First, I need to have completely learned for myself what I plan to teach. And second, I have to understand the learner's learning style and the ways to communicate to that learning style compared and contrased to my own learning style and know how to communicate to the learner the various dynamics of the subject matter as it relates to the learner's prior knowledge and life experience and the learner's interpretation of that knowledge and life experience based on the learner's world view and receptivity to my style of communicating that subject matter based on the learner's learning style through the filter of a contrasting learning style and possible clash of world views based on varying interpretations of different life experiences and interpretations of events. That in itself would seem to require more preparation than any of the other habits listed. At least that's the way it seems to me. Anyone beg to differ?

Hello world!

Hello world!