Learning Your Whole Life Long!

I have always been a fan of Life Long Learning! I think that there are many benefits (especially in teaching) to constantly trying to learn as much as you can about the world around us. This is actually the reason I was first interested ni biology, because I felt I was learning very interesting things about the world around me in every class and every day. Then I decided that I would love to help others learn about the world around them as well!

When I think about life long learning I am reminded of the great examples of the founding fathers, Joseph Smith, and our current Prophet, Thomas S. Monson. He is so learned in the areas of poetry, classical books, and the gospel. I love how he always uses literature, or poetry in his talks, they make gospel topics more relevant to me. I want to work harder at reading good books and listening to good music so that I can to learn more every day.

Sometimes the idea of lifelong learning can be overwhelming as well though. There is so much information out there, and there is no way that anyone person could ever learn it all! But I am encuoraged when I think that if we do our part to learn when we can we will be aided in our efforts and we will learn all things (in the eternities or course). This makes me want to do better at learning, and to not waste my time on silly things like television, and video games. I know that if we can become life long learners it will not only benefit ourselves, but it will also benefit our children, spouse, and all of the students that we teach.

I like the deadlines for the class projects that are on the website, so i'm just going to continue with those suggestions!

Project #1: Create a Website
Due: Feb 3

Project #2: Instructional Video
Due: Mar 3

Project #3: Content Specific Area
Due: April 7

I am a biology education major focusing on the life sciences, so I will focus on biology for all three projects.
I am excited to learn how to create an internet site! This is something that I have always wanted to know how to do. And it will be very helpful skill, not only in teaching but in life in general! :)

1st blog posting

Hey my name is Kara Robison Martin. I am a biology education major, and I will graduate in April of 2011 (which is coming a lot faster than I thought it would!)
The assignment said to write about my experience setting up this blog, so here it goes. This is my second time creating a blog. My first time was for my humanities 101 class this last summer term. I hope that I enjoy this blogging experience more than that one! haha for my humanities class we had to do three huge blogs each week and even though my professor claimed they weren't a big deal and she wouldn't grade them hard, she did so I had to spend 30 minutes on each blog... that kind of turned me off to blogging since, but I'm sure that this will be better!
But setting up a blog for the second time wasn't too bad, I did it all in like 2 minutes!

I have a friend in my same program who has already taken this class and she has told me about some of the stuff we will be learning about. It makes me excited to learn it myself. She actually introduced our whole animal anatomy class to google documents and they really helped our whole class to study for exams. So I just hope to learn about neat stuff like that that will help me not only in school but in my future classroom and in life in general! The world today is in a technology age so I want to learn as much as I can so I can stay up with the world and the students I'll be teaching!