Time management and the need for constant prioritization and re-prioritization seem to be perennial challenges for adult learners and instructors alike!
In another nifty post, my colleague and friend Harriet Schwartz from The Encouragement Lounge shares some fabulous strategies for what you can do when you’re so overwhelmed you don’t even know where to begin:
Time Management [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Life’
Prioritizing Your Priorities
Posted in Adult Learners, Blogs, Life, Time Management, tagged adultlearners, blog, Life, time on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Only Connect
Posted in Life, tagged integration, Life on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I listened to part of Obama’s speech about sending in 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. At the end of his speech, he called upon Americans to be united:
It’s easy to forget that when this war began, we were united — bound together by the fresh memory of a horrific attack, and by the [...]
Add It Up: 45 Credits Of Prior Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Life, Literature, PLA, tagged adultlearners, Life, Literature, Marylhurst, PLA on October 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Barbara Eckroad recently submitted her PLA Portfolio for the maximum number of credits allowed — 45! For Barbara, all of that life experience has added up — big time!
Congrats Barbara!
Barbara is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in English, Literature & Writing, Media Studies, and Religious Studies. The topics she wrote for were:
LIT 223: Introduction [...]
Good Work!
Posted in Conferences, Employment, Life, Professional Development, tagged Employment, Life, reflection on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently attended a session at the AHEA conference in Chicago that was led by my colleagues Morry Fiddler and Catherine Marienau of the School for New Learning at DePaul University. The session was titled “??!!(Work)??” — so the title alone captured my interest.
The workshop itself was a nice opportunity for conference attendees to stop [...]
Today I Am Feeling California
Posted in Life, tagged California, Life on September 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
~Edward Abbey
What Summer With Mac Taught Me
Posted in Learning, Life, Toddlers, tagged beach, Learning, Life, reflection, summer, Toddlers on September 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s the first week of classes here and we’re off to a rip-roaring start with Fall term, and I, for one, am ready for it! The temperature is dropping, the leaves on the trees are starting to turn vivid colors, the light evenings are gradually darkening, and I am thinking about Halloween candy. (Oh that [...]
Catch the Worm!
Posted in Career Services, Higher Education, Life, Professional Development, tagged Employment, highereducation, Life on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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The First Eight Words
Posted in Learning, Life, tagged knowledge, Learning, Life on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LEARNING: Changes a person makes in himself or herself that increase the know-why and/or the know-what and/or the know-how the person possesses with respect to a given subject. (Learning as a Way of Being, by Peter Vaill, p. 21)
Read the first eight words again: Changes a person makes in himself or herself…
I second that.
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