Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Amazed!

Hey guys let's talk:

I take a look back at where I was and where I am right now and I'm surprised of all I've learned and accomplished as a woman, mother and student. I look back to 2010 when I graduated from high school and went to college and to be honest I wasn't motivated, inspired, focused at all, my classes where a joke to me and I had low grades! I sucked! (Sorry for my language) I spend most of my time hanging out with people to avoid going to class and actually become someone in life.

Now that life has hit me a few time I see why education is so important, not only for my personal, professional growth but I've struggled with finding a good paying job that will help me provide a good, stable life for my daughter. I feel like now my whole perspective has changed since I have a daughter and since I've seen that with each year finding jobs with no diploma its harder. Some of us it takes us a little more time to find what we want to do in life and need to find that "aaaww" feeling to say "Ohh thats what I'm going to do" my advice to those who currently are not motivated in school, find themselves discouraged my advice to you guys is find yourselves, look for what you like, change mayors if you have to but don't completely quit school. Life starts to get in the way and it gets harder to get back into it, look at me!! took me 4 years to get back and to be honest if it wasn't for my family support I would be able to get back and actually see myself setting expectation, goals and motivated to get it done for me and my daughter. Everything that I've learned has been amazing, I will definetly use it to my full advantage. I want to be very successful at what I do and I'm so honered that I got to have great teachers along the way. 

My motivation for everything!

To those out there!! Don't get discouraged find your passion and pursue it with all your mind, heart and should and trust me when its all set and done, the satisfaction and proudness you will feel about yourself would be incredible and it will never feel like a job, but just a passion that pays.

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Hope you guys have a great week! Keep going! Don't give up!!

Media Literacy

What is  Media Literacy?

So I missed this class because of work issues but I got a chance to review what our teacher gave that day and it basically what I thought it was! LOL

So What's Media Literacy?
-Our interaction with media and the messages we take away from it; Our ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media messages.

One of the things that caught my attention

Pretty self explanatory right? But what are we doing as teacher to teach our students about Media? are we teaching them how to analyze and evaluate it? To the actuality media is neither bad nor good it really depends how you view it and use it; media has a lot of different purposes, we as teacher can use it for the actual learning experience that it can be used for. Media can expose kids to people, countries, and situations that maybe they will never get to experience in real life. Meet other students in foreign countries, and communicate with them about the same thing their studying. There's endless positive possibilities that we as teacher can give to our students we just need to use it carefully and use it for the right purposes, and teach our kids to do the same thing. If you want to get more info about Media Literacy I found this very interesting --->Literacy <---

Now that I got that out of the way! this things I found very interesting

Wow! Didn't even realize it was that much!

I only thought about 3 of them

Music does effect moods! Maybe we should expose it to kids!

I believe this is so true!!

Twitter Chat

Incredible 

Hey guys! It seems like I haven't posted in forever!! It's been super hectic for me that I just been focused on catching up in my classes, but I haven't forgotten about you guys! So lets talk about Twitter Chat shall we?!

I've heard about this Twitter chat trough TV, people on the radio and even Facebook, but since I really didn't have a Twitter I never paid mind to it until my tech teacher told the whole classroom to make a twitter account and to start adding people in the same profession you are, so of course we all did and in in one of our classes she wanted to join a twitter chat about teachers, school, etc. So she started to chat with people and I was amazed of all the positive feedback she got and it was all live, happening in front of us!!
Unfortunately I haven't been able to connect to Twitter as much as I want just because of this hectic weeks I've been having but I understand why people, radio, Facebook, etc talk about twitter chats, you get to connect with people from around the world and talk about the same ideas, concerns, ideas, etc about whatever topic, subject you want. I will defiantly use it more often for any questions, opinions on teaching, specially since I might volunteer this summer in a church day care that will open this summer in my community church so not only will I get hands-on experience but its a head start to really see if I really love teaching young kids!! But anyways add me on---> Twitter <---

 

Here's my post from when my Teacher was chatting with other Teachers