Month: April 2018

Good evening again,

Trying to piece by piece work through the orientation and hoping that at the pace that I am going I will get through it all by May 2nd.

Signed up for hypothes.is tonight and was able to use the program successfully to add my own annotations as directed.

I am pleased with my accomplishments so far today, but… cautiously optimistic.  I had no idea that programs like hypothes.is even existed.  I was able to navigate, but it will definitely take some practice to be able to use AND still learn from the content.  And there is still a lot of the orientation page to work through.

On a completely different note, there was a lot to think about in the 2016 Manifesto for Teaching Online, and I recognized that my brain will need to return to what I will describe as “a more academic way of thinking”.  In the role that I am currently in much of the day to day comes down to task-orientated, clinical and/or administrative problem solving.  I anticipate that this change will be helpful – that is, if the neuroplasticity is still there at nearly half a century old!

Good evening,

My name is Liz and I live in Saskatchewan, Canada.

I would definitely be considered a “mature” student as I am pursuing a Master’s degree at the age of 47.  I am enrolled in the health stream.  I have worked in varying healthcare roles for the last 30 years.

I am happily married and have 3 beautiful and intelligent teenage/young adult daughters, 2 of whom are currently taking undergraduate degrees.  I am actively involved in my local church volunteering on a worship team, in youth ministry, in Quizzing, and in kids ministry.

We have 2 dogs, 1 turtle, and 1 fish in our house for pets.  And some plants I am trying to keep alive.

I am already finding the technological navigation challenging, but looking forward to becoming comfortable with it.  I am also excited to “meet” everyone else in LDRS 500 and learning with you.