REFLECTION: Weeks 1 & 2

The past two weeks have been an introductory to the course expectations as well as an overview of how to use blogs throughout the semester. I have already created a blog for the Computers in Education course previous to this class but Dr. V taught me how to personalize my blog. I also accomplished how to add special features and how to follow and comment on other students blogs. I became more familiar with Google Reader which will allow me to organize and view blogs that I subscribe to.

The second day of class we did a "Star Wars" activity in which we were literally jumping through hoops. ;) Afterward we reflected on how the activity represented the environment. The main point I acquired was that we all have good ideas of ways to improve the environment and if we all work together we can accomplish anything even if we are working with a limited amount of space.

I haven’t learned much about the environment in these first two weeks but I know Dr. V will make up for that throughout the semester. Also, I have been struggling with the blog requirements for this course and really hope I get the hang of things soon. =) As for the rest of the semester, I’m looking forward to becoming a regular blogger and hope to learn more about things I can do to improve the environment.

Welcome to Shar's Virtual Environment

Hi, my name is Shar and I created this blog to meet the requirements of my Environmental Health course during the Spring of 2009.

There are 5 possible types of posts on my blog. They include:

• Advocacy Project
  
• Eye Openers
  
• Reflections
• Reviews
  
• Share and Voice
  

If you notice at the bottom of this post, the categories will be listed as labels. This post is has been labeled with all five kinds of posts. You will also see the number of each kind of post in my Labels Gadget at the top of the page. All post titles from now on will begin with one of the categories above.

The members of my web group are:

1. Steve @ Steve Goes Green
   
2. Heather @ Heather's Healthy Environment
3. Christen @ Christen's Environmental Health
   
4. Kaileigh @ Kaileigh's Nature Log
   
5. Kathy @ Choh's Changing Environment
   

Want to subscribe and/or follow my blog? You can subscribe to my blog by clicking the subscribe gadget in the gadget column. You can also follow my blog by clicking "Follow this Blog" in the gadget column. I am subscribed to all the blogs in my blog list gadget. You can see my complete profile and all the blogs I am following by clicking on "See Complete Profile."

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