Playing Time
Edublogs has changed the dashboard (the page where the writer manages everything) so I – luckily – have a few hours to play with the new look today and get familiar with the new features and arrangements.
How are you when things change? Do you like change, like trying old things in new ways? Or are you more of a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” kind of person? This was particularly important this past week, as I was staying with my soon-to-be-89 mother. She had broken her wrist and was out of her apt for 8 weeks so I was there helping and overseeing that she could get back to her routines of the day. She is VERY adamant about keeping things exactly as they are, and resisting anything new. Unfortunately, that isn’t healthy for her in some cases. She has a lot of medications and vitamins and in her head she did not want to use a plastic box with the 7 days of the week each with its own little space for pills. She wanted to “do it like I always did. That worked for me.” She… well… anyway. I wonder if as we get older <sigh> we get more set in our ways and see change as needless. (She is an Obama supporter, tho).
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Hello Avid Reader – I sure will miss you next year in person, but we *can* still blog together, for sure. I’ll be keeping the posts as is, because I’d like to show my new classes all the neat stuff we can talk about, the kinds of topics that are good for blogging, and so on. Rest assured that if I change anything I will be sure to let you know. And I’m keeping the link to your blog, too. Who knows, maybe some of my new students will like to chat with a former student.
One question: When you’re going to be teaching at DDMS again, are you going to delete all the posts in this blog, delete this blog altogether, or create a new one? If you choose the third option, please give me the new address!
Oh wow, how coincidential. I was planning to post about how opposed I am to change. I realize that up to now, after almost two whole weeks, I still get up at 6:00, earlier than I normally do. I love classical music and classical styles, not the contemporary drums or stuff that Roy and Samuel like. And of course, my preferences haven’t changed (I have to admit I still indulge in childish stuff).