The lifelong learning habit that I consider the easiest would be, teach and mentor others. With my background of 22 years in the Army, I became successful first as the student and mentored, then as the teacher and the mentor. My final job within the Army was to manage a Forward Surgical Team which provided far forward surgery to the most horrifically injured Soldiers, Coalition Forces, Civilians and even the bad guys. In order to be successful in this mission, my team had to constantly review and teach each other our jobs. In addition to teaching each other, we would commonly teach local doctors how to perform basic medical tasks as well as life saving surgical interventions. In addition to my vast Army career of teaching and mentoring, I also serve as the head coach for the Rossview High School wrestling team. This goes without saying that teaching and mentoring is of the utmost importance in order to be successful not only as a coach, but as a team and a wrestling community as well.
The hardest lifelong learning habit for me has been and will continue to be is the use of technology towards my advantage. Throughout my Army career, I did continue to advance with technology as it was presented to me and I feel confident that I will continue to adapt with the added technology presented within this class too. I have not been exposed to blogs, twitter, or chat rooms but will remain optimistic that I will learn about them as well as how to employ them to become a successful teacher.
Needless to say, I have a lot to learn about web 2.0 tools. Having not been exposed to much computer technology before, I want to become proficient with all the tools presented. I did have difficulty in building my blog as I didn't have any of the accounts needed to start, so I had to sign up and create a list of accounts, user names and passwords in order to keep everything organized. I do not really have a favorite or easy part of creating this blog, but still find it interesting.
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