It has come and gone, the beginning of the first week of the quarter Winter, 2012. We served more students in a day than one would have thought possible at the Welcome and Information Center at Bellevue College. I came home each night exhausted! I have a video that helps you understand the behavior and mentality of today’s college students. Personally I love ’em! Wouldn’t it be nice if we could bottle all that energy?
It will be time this quarter to finish the hybrid course for Charlene. I have five modules completed and ready for her inspection. I have to work on my Haiku LMS entries and only have one module created so far. The last three weeks were spent on Christmas vacation and the preparation for the holidays, as well as focusing on learning my new job. The details are enough to make you think your taking Ph.d level graduate courses again! My brain was thoroughly drained by some of the chaos and confusion. All of this is beginning to clear, as I grow more proficient each day at work. If I did not enjoy the students, I probably would have given up this low paying job. The problem is, I absolutely enjoy working with them! They are like have many different copies of my own grandchildren.
By now everyone has read the article that made front page news on New Years Day. I read the comments on the article in the Seattle Times and had quite a few different reactions to the thinking of the contributors. All of them made me wonder why a course is not being offered in the Social Science division on New Ideas on Aging and Retirement. Our students today will need to make decisions they are not equipped to handle, as their parent age and decline. I have a course that I could develop quite easily; but so far, no real thought was given to my suggestions. I will keep working on trying to get a community college to offer a course like mine. I think it is timely and relevant.
Next week I will be meeting with a man named Michael Surkan who will be teaching me how to use “Podcasting” to help me in my search for teaching positions. I was given his blog address and name by the job counselor, Joan U., I work with at the MOSC, in Seattle. I am posting the address of the podcasting application for anyone who might be interested in this new way to network and reach out to potential employers and will enter another more informative blog on my experience with it: http://www.PracticalPodcasting.com. Michael’s blog address is:http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/10190 . I may not agree with his political leanings or his comments on the blog but I like his ideas.
For now, I am entering the new quarter with quite a bit on my plate. My husband will be out of work on February 3 and we are updating all of his information. Given his capabilities, I cannot understand why Boeing has rejected every application he has sent them. Could it be they are discriminating? He has an excellent work record, no matter where he goes. He never missed one day of work in the past 2 years while working at Physio Controls in Redmond. Still they are not hiring and the company most likely is sold, again. Anyway, we will be treading water this quarter. He made more money in the past two years than he did in the five years prior to this UI claim and is making less unemployment benefits this time around. Go figure! They tell him it is because of the federal money being cut, yet his base-line is lower. My crap detector is working, I think! It is telling me something else is going on here.
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