I wrote the following this weekend at my Oxbow Writing Project event and thought I'd share it with you. Enjoy.
There’s so much I want to read and learn. There are search engines and databases just beckoning my name. Click me. Read me. I want you to know about me. What I have in front of me is a huge ocean of information. Where is my floaty? How do I keep from sinking in all that’s available? I many need some sunscreen to keep from getting burned. How do I sort out the truth? Is there a lie detector I can download for Mozilla Firefox? Would being a journalist help my case? I find some friends bobbing along the ocean in my journey. They too, are reading and learning. What are you reading about today, I ask? My new friend tells me she learned how to set up a school fusion webpage and she’s moderating the comments her students are blogging for a discussion on their favorite Diary of a Wimpy Kid book. Another friend I see is researching her medications on line. She’s fuming to me that she read online that her two new medications shouldn’t be taken together. (How does she know if the website is accurate, I wonder?) Another friend I see is reading a Golden Sower on her iPad, tweeting, facebooking, and checking her email all at the same time. I spot another friend. He looks stuck in some seaweed. I swim over to help. His school issued Dell laptop isn’t talking to his projector. Try hitting function and F8. Woo-Hoo! Now he’s swimming again! We swim together and spot a colleague looking worried. She says she’s trying to send a document to our principal and his computer can’t convert it from Appleworks. No worries, we tell her. Try resaving it as an rtf file. Can he read it now? Isn’t it great that we’re all swimming in this information ocean together? Fishing for information! All in the same school…
Back to "work." Stay warm! Did anyone do a Snow Dance for tomorrow morning? :)
Back to "work." Stay warm! Did anyone do a Snow Dance for tomorrow morning? :)
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