Collecting Current Educational Materials

As a librarian, it is important to have current books, magazines, games, activities that are available in the library. Students need to be current with their learning so they will not remain behind with the rest of the world.

To try something new, I will collect educational materials to enhance learning such as CD games, books, periodicals, magazines, encyclopedia, etc.

I will stay focus and remain committed on this task. By end of 30 days, I'm sure my collection will be worth while since it helps students' learning.

Get Organized for 30days

The idea of trying something new for 30 days is a great way to keep a person focused on a goal. For me, I will try to organize the documents in the computer hard drive. I would start with a single hour to see if I could manage to keep this goal. The files in my computer are all scattered and very hard to find when needed, especially years of educational graphics and pictures. It will take tremendous amount of time and effort to make my files easily accessible. But day by day, I need to stay focus and get things done. This idea is simple but it's a real motivator.

Can Google Docs and Excel Simplify My Life?

Viewing the various features of Google Docs and Excel excited me so much. Imagine creating documents, labeling them in groups, adding spreadsheets, sending them to groups with and without the ability of their make changes to documents all in a short amount of time is indeed a worthy goal. Bridging communication in a flash:

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Once documents are created, they can be stored and shared with the click of a mouse. YES!!!

Make a Difference in 30 Days

In our last session, we learned that Google Docs does a lot of useful tasks. One task in particular that has attracted my attention is the ease and convenience in sharing and collaborating Google Docs documents/ spreadsheets, especially since I often need to share records and documents with my colleagues. I still remember the hassle and long hours required when attaching these records via e-mails.
In these 30 days, I'll try creating Google Docs documents/ spreadsheets to share with my team members. I will also make some of these documents editable and some others not.

My something new for 30 days

I would like to research online every day for 30 days at least one resource which I can use in the classroom. The textbook used in the classroom is very informational, however, I would like to find material that would serve to enhance the classroom textbook. For 30 days I will find at least one useful resource daily, use it in the classroom, and compile the material in a binder. My hope is to find online material that will create a better understanding of my lessons among my students.

A 30 Day Makeover

I would like to challenge myself for 30 days in using technology, particularly in text processing.

We all know that students nowadays are technology oriented. I would like to dare myself to make my teaching more effective by using multimedia in my class. Through all these years that Ive been teaching, I have observed that the atmosphere in my classroom is different everytime I use a PowerPoint presentation. It is a very simple one but it seems to make a big difference. I describe it as a "pale look" PowerPoint presentation. "Pale look" because all that my students could see is pure text. But after one session in my Technology class, I learned that I can make my PowerPoint presentations more exciting and more colorful to the eyes of my student by simply inserting pictures, colors and a lot more. I'm looking forward to using more technology in my 30 day challenge so I can show to my students that even though I was a product of "the old school," I can be as technology oriented as them.

Procrastination solved in 30 days!

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 Have you ever had a job that's so big that you keep putting it off?  One of my problems is that I add tech projects to my list of Things to do faster than I can complete them.  I've had one project for my website that I've been working on slowly for the past 3 months; it's a large project with a lot of problems that I need to solve.  The enormity of the task has intimidated me from accomplishing the smaller parts that I should be working on.

It isn't going to solve itself, so I intend on chipping away at it for the next 30 days.  I hope I can complete everything in that time, but if I can spend just 20 minutes each day for the next month I will be a lot closer to its completion.  It will feel good to have one less monkey on my back.

 

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Ab Workout

My worst exercise would have to be the Ab Workouts. It is an exercise that targets the mainly the stomach and abdominal muscles. Since I started to weight train, I have always wanted the hard rock abs that shows without having to flex my muscle. I have been working my Abs for years but fail to see any significant results.  So I gave up. I later discovered that in order to achieve the ripped up chiseled abs I would not only have to be consistent but to also have a strict diet. Living here in Guam, it is not always easy to avoid the fiesta food. However, though after watching the Clip from Ted, It just clicked to me."Trying something new for thirty days," I thought about giving it another try. It has been day four, and so far I have been able to maintain doing 50 situps before I go to bed and watching my diet.I know that in the next couple of weeks though, it will get difficult to maintain my goal. Well, (Sighs)Gotta stay focused and motivated.

My 30 Day Challenge

I like the idea of trying something new for 30 days. I can experience new things a month at a time! My "try something new for 30 days" would be to create and maintain a blog about my experiences as an educator and first-time librarian. I have many stories to share about being on the front lines of educating students on Guam, most especially middle school students. I've never had a blog but I am an avid follower of several that help me to laugh at the end of a stressful day at school. I think that a blog would be a great way to reflect at the end of the day on things that went well or things that I would not want to repeat ever again!

Try something new for 30 days