I guess there's been no time for blogging, which is good?
I'm still chugging along. Learning c-Sharp and Javascript. Finding the overlap between the two.
This blog fell behind because I was focused on going live on twitch and coding, in addition to prepping for teaching AP Lang in the fall. I had to attend a week long online course to learn how to do it, and it was draining. IT's hard to sit for a few hours at a time and read student responses and figure out how to make a course in rhetoric interesting for students.
I keep hitting speed bumps, but I also keep finding my way over them. It feels redundant to only write blog posts about the hard stuff, so let's pivot here.
This blog fell behind because I was focused on going live on twitch and coding, in addition to prepping for teaching AP Lang in the fall. I had to attend a week long online course to learn how to do it, and it was draining. IT's hard to sit for a few hours at a time and read student responses and figure out how to make a course in rhetoric interesting for students.
I keep hitting speed bumps, but I also keep finding my way over them. It feels redundant to only write blog posts about the hard stuff, so let's pivot here.
Recently I made my way through a couple different sections and retained nothing. Just couldn't recall very very simple stuff. And it was very disheartening. Looking back now, I can see that I did a really good thing: I went back and relearned it. Just - did it again. And it made much more sense. It cleared it up. I'm having some trouble right now with advanced objects in javascript. It's not clicking. So I'm about to do the same thing: go back and relearn it. Do it once more to try and solidify it. This might be the perseverance I was missing in my years behind me. I'm proud of myself for not giving up. It's nice to feel that pride: looking back it seems foreign. I've accomplished things before, but this time I accomplished it with intention and hard work and not just "I get it I'm good at it." It's satisfying.
I hope I can continue to instill that type of attitude in my students. The idea that hard work is more rewarding than just getting something first try. The hard work makes the success feel so much better than just "being good." I wonder if I can extend this to other parts of my life? Can I finally get good at drums? Can I finally get good at all these other things? Maybe it'll take my whole life, maybe I'll focus on other things. It'd be cool to get good at stuff.
It's July 17, and I'm in the middle of band camp in the middle of a pandemic and just trying to make it. We're being as safe as we can. But it still makes me nervous. I really don't ever wanna feel that shortness of breath again like I did in 2008 when my lung collapsed. I've cried reading accounts of the way people suffered during covid-19 because it reminded me of what it was like to only have one lung. So I'd very much like to not get it again. But, I gotta make money and I gotta be on, so it goes.
I hope I can continue to instill that type of attitude in my students. The idea that hard work is more rewarding than just getting something first try. The hard work makes the success feel so much better than just "being good." I wonder if I can extend this to other parts of my life? Can I finally get good at drums? Can I finally get good at all these other things? Maybe it'll take my whole life, maybe I'll focus on other things. It'd be cool to get good at stuff.
It's July 17, and I'm in the middle of band camp in the middle of a pandemic and just trying to make it. We're being as safe as we can. But it still makes me nervous. I really don't ever wanna feel that shortness of breath again like I did in 2008 when my lung collapsed. I've cried reading accounts of the way people suffered during covid-19 because it reminded me of what it was like to only have one lung. So I'd very much like to not get it again. But, I gotta make money and I gotta be on, so it goes.
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