Journal 1

100 things that make me happy

1.     My boyfriend of five years Zack

2.     My Dachshund Buffy

3.     My brother

4.     My Best friend and “sister” Nicole

5.     My Godson Zackers

6.     My friend Lacy

7.     My friend Emily

8.     My friend Becka

9.     My friend Monica

10. My friend Lance

11. School/Education

12. Literature

13. The Ocean

14. Swimming with sharks in La Jolla

15. Playing Rock Band with my friends

16. Playing Board Games with my friends

17. Drinking with my friends

18. Smoking Hookah with friends

19. Dancing

20. Snowboarding

21. Reading Comics

22. Singing badly at karaoke in a Japanese bar

23. Walking down the Vegas strip with a huge margarita

24. Sharing a huge candy flavored alcoholic beverage with my best friend in Vegas.

25. Watching a theatre performance at San Diego Broadway

26. Getting my hair dyed a fun color

27. Acting

28. Tutoring

29. Sushi

30. Pear Cider

31. Apple Pie

32. Pumpkin Pie

33. Halloween parties

34. Meeting a fellow nerd

35. Comic-con San Diego

36. Meeting and working for Zachary Levi

37. Meeting Joss Whedon

38. Meeting Amanda Tapping

39. Meeting Nathan Fillion

40. Meeting and discussing vampires with Ann Rice

41. My computer

42. My kindle

43. My direct tv

44. All things J.R.R Tolkien

45. Grimms Fairy Tales

46. The Anita Blake book series

47. The Dresden Files book series

48. Harry Potter

49. Buffy The Vampire Slayer

50. Firefly

51. Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog

52. Chuck

53. Supernatural

54. How I Met Your Mother

55. Bones

56. Game of Thrones

57. Vampires NOT TWILIGHT

58. Wolves

59. Penguins

60. Sharks

61. Sea World

62. Disney movies

63. Disneyland

64. Disneyworld

65. Wild Animal Park (I don’t care if they changed the name!)

66. Mass effect game series

67. Final Fantasy 7 game

68. Old Kings Quest games

69. Star Wars

70. Star Wars The Old Republic MMORPG

71. Warm Tea

72. Collecting shot glasses

73. Baking Christmas goodies

74. Dressing up in costumes

75. Walking along the beach

76. Riding in a tube down a river

77. The Boondock Saints Movies

78. Air Soft Games

79. Celtic music

80. My friend Lacy’s artwork

81. Writing science fiction and fantasy stories

82.  The feel of sand between my toes.

83. Renaissance Fares

84. Singing loudly and badly along to the Wicked soundtrack

85. Penguin stuffed animals

86. Pepsi

87. Rock candy

88. Making a daytrip to Julian and eating pie

89. Riding on the back of a motorcycle

90. Sunshine

91. Gazing at the stars from inside a hot tub

92. Dragons

93. Riff Trax Movies

94. Talking about books

95. Road Trips with my friends

96. Thai food

97. Finding something funny on Facebook

98. Eating fresh made cookies

99. Long bubble baths or Jacuzzi tubs

100.                Celebrating holidays with my family.

Technology Self-Assesment: School 2.0

NETS-T V: The below image reflects my School 2.0 self assessment score of my own awareness of the NETS. Then I chose an area I was not as well versed in (NETS-T V) and researched a relevant video to strengthen my knowledge in that area.

In the Youtube video Adam Bellow’s Educational Tech Commandments   I believe he addressed many if not all of the NETS standards however two stood out to me the most.  4-Promote Digital Citizenship and Responsibility, and 5-Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership.

In this video he does a 140 slide presentation on some of the issues and concerns surrounding the topic of educational technology in schools. One of the issues he addresses is the question of tech and money. He explains how schools often waste money by preventing students from using their own tech devices instead of trying to incorporate it into the classroom. Another issue he addresses is the concerns about social media. He believes social media shouldn’t be blocked from children and that it is our responsibility as educators to educate kids on how to be good digital citizens (This is where NETS 4 is addressed). He also describes the growing educator community online and how it helps bring educators from all around the world together. One of the things he mentioned that strongly resonated with me is his comment on “life long learning,” and how as educators our own education is never over. We are responsible to keep up to date on new technology trends in order to provide our students with the adequate skills they need to navigate in the real world of technology (This is where NETS 5 is addressed).

            I believe this video applies to education in very obvious ways. He is discussing technology and it’s place rightful in the classroom, he discusses the importance of training and educating kids on proper technology use. He also emphasizes the importance of teacher training and life long learning practices. Everything he discusses in this video very directly applies to education.