Once, long time ago was my first trial into ice-swimming , but for different reasons I quit.
Today, after easily influenced by peer pressure in search of adventure, I allow some adrenaline to go through my system and try this type of experience again. And, to my own surprised I survived the trial!!!! It is worth to say, that now I am ready to sleep with the angels 🙂
Ah! with this post I begin the personal diary section, with sharing purposes 😉
Great creativity from a BIG southern heart!!! Adele, at her farewell gathering last Thursday, read the FINNISH blessing to us, composed by her and based on the idea of the Irish blessing. All of us enjoy it a lot, reason why I want to plasm it in here, for easy retrieval 😉
Thank you very much Adele for all!
IRISH BLESSING
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
FINNISH BLESSING:
May the road your travel on not have slippery ice
and if it does may you have your winter tires on.
May the snow not fall on the path to your front door.
May your sauna warm quickly
and no moose-fly infest your hair.
May your berries be sweet and the summers long,
May the sun often shine,
and you always have something warm when you need it.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
when we are babies, we just make noises, or what adults interpret as noises (I have no idea if it might represent something else)
as a toddler we start to imitate behaviors and words.
as a child, we start to express ourselves independently but it is confine to an sphere
as a teenager, when the wold is opening is just a mess all over the place, which can be seen as well in our way of expression, inside and outside the person
as a young adult, you start to comprehend a bit some things, which implies as well be able to express them with another perspective and after reflect with your own experience
and…. I am stock there… 🙂 hehehehe…
But all this human process, I feel it correlates well with what we call PhD process. Our understanding and adjustment is in ourselves first and later with the outside world, it is in constant evolution.
Sometime we only babble of things, later we just start to hook ourselves in some terms, time pass and we might get stock in a small world. Time keeps on passing and we might turn crazy by getting complete lost in the “knowledge-space” in which we are getting exposed, but suddenly, when you less expected, an apparently senseful connection of thoughts take place and even you can make one logical sentence all by yourself. Then you realized: “wow! this starts to make sense”.
However I have the impression that this process is kind of cyclic, according to the reference we select. Nevertheless, if it is correct this correlation, it offers some kind of hope to reach different stages if different factors are work and develop correctly over time, and when the time is right. 🙂
puff!!!
WOW! I feel a relief. Let me tell you, I confirmed once again that talk in public stresses me A LOT!. Takes much of my energy. Also realized of some of the details you have to be aware while you chair a PhD day.
– No idea about the timing issue. Puff!!! for so many angles.
– Food organization. Thanks so much Roman, you were GREAT with it!
– Content.
I have just no idea how a conference is. And between you and me I am NOT looking forward to do that. If be a presenter is hard enough.
From the positive side, our PhD’s day start again. 🙂 I am deeply THANKFUL with the feedbacks. The senior researchers of my research team are just FANTASTIC!!! 🙂 and your support being critical with my work is much appreciate it. I learn from each one of you. My goal is clear for the following weeks. To focus! but at difference of earlier times I know where to focus 😛 I think.
What a summer!!! It has been quite busy, and I wanted to hibernate!!! I was complete naive thinking about that.
Now to the next goal.
Thank you all!
Interesting! right now I face myself with an new lack of focus and/or understanding. If the title of my blog is so clear: what am I doing?.
Anyway, let me state the question to the public. Is it correct that the primarily focus and/or objectivge of our EdTech group is the option A?. Being the other options also present but secondary objectives. Am I correct or am I missleading myself in here?
Options:
A) We are enhancing the teaching and learning process focusing on the craft or the art of using technology. (Educational technology )
B) We are focus on technological literacy for everyone. (Technology education)
C) We are doing instructional technology. Which might be similar as Educational technology but as difference of it, it stresses more the “scientific and systems approach of instructional problem solving”.
Clear thinking is just a mess.
Once a read that math teachers can’t teach math properly, because themselves can’t understand it. But at this point, I start to believe this phenomena is not exclusive of math.