Monday, September 27, 2010

Futurizing the Flock





I hope you all enjoyed our "Finding your Flock" session last Thursday. If Tori or Sarah said anything to you that you found particularly helpful or intriguing, please let them know. I'm so happy that they were willing to come share their stories with you. Oh, you did realize that they agreed to come and talk to you all partly so that they could see their Little Sisters in action, didn't you? Hee Hee Hee!

Our Blog topic this week is going to use "Finding your Flock" as a springboard, and it's going to require some imagination on your part. Let's pretend that it's Fall of 2012 and Jason and are still teaching Student Success Seminar. And we decide to ask YOU to come and speak with the class about your experiences during your first two years at Converse. (This isn't actually that far-fetched--Tori was in our class the first year we taught together.) We ask you to talk about some things that surprised you when you arrived, some challenges that you overcame, some things that you've learned (both in and out of the classroom), and some advice you'd like to give the first-year students. What do you imagine you might tell our Student Success Seminar in 2012? Imagine it all, and then post your "speech" to your future Little Sister class in your blog.

As an addendum to your blog posting this week, we're going to start having you comment on each other's blogs. You'll need to comment on at least five blogs by your classmates, and yes, you can pick any of the topics that we've covered on the blogs up to this point. Your comments need to be both helpful to and respectful of the bloggers in question. Once you're finished leaving your five comments (to five different people), leave a comment on THIS blog entry letting us know which five folks you left comments for. Enjoy!

Monday, September 13, 2010

Time Management



Blog about your biggest time management challenge-is it oversleeping, spending too much time on social media such as Facebook, juggling work and family responsibilities, or something else?

Remember that your blog entry is due by Friday, September 17th at 11:00 p.m.