Childhood Memories

Childhood Memories

1. Think back to your childhood. What can you remember from your early childhood? Where did your remembrance occur? What meaning did it have at the time? How has that meaning changed over time?


- While reflecting back on some of my early childhood memories, I find it difficult to recall many but luckily some are quite apparent. Some of those memories include, at a young age playing all sorts of games with my older brother in our back yard, attending both elementary and middle school, and being involved with my church’s youth group.


- The particular places to where my remembrance occurred vary from each memory. For instance, playing with my older brother happened over 15 years ago, at one of my parents first homes in Dallas. Attending both elementary and middle school happened on the same street, being that both locations were side by side with each other. Lastly, attending my church’s youth group occurred at a couple different locations, being that my church at that time relocated


- The meaning behind playing games with my older brother gives me a great sense of happiness, being that those are some of my greatest memories form growing up. How that meaning has changed, it hasn’t really, other than those memories are more meaningful now than before.

- Attending both elementary and middle school honestly didn’t have much meaning to me back then, it was something that was simply required of me. Looking back on it now though, it has great meaning in that it help pave my way towards were I am at now.

- Attending my church’s youth group had great amounts of meeting to me back then; it gave me a sense belonging somewhere. Now that I’m older I do appreciate having that then, because now it is an essential part of my life.



Some educators argue that we learn much more from our failures than from our success. Why? Can you think of a situation in which you learned a lot from a mistake?

- I have to agree with this statement. I do believe we do learn more from our failures than from our successes. In our failures we learn from what we did wrong, why we did it wrong, and then come up with ways of succeeding next time. For instance this occurred to me when I was trying to fix the brakes on my car. I just could not figure it out, but during the process of coming to this conclusion, I missed up some vital components. So I learned from that failure just to take my car somewhere to have it serviced instead.




3. Can you think of an activity that makes you dumber, not smarter? Do you learn anything from that activity? Explain.

List an activity that makes me dumber and not smarter? Well the first one I can think of is simply sitting in front of the television watching it all day long, but the particular channel being on sitcoms all day long. There’s hardly anything one could learn from watching those all day, if I may even argue that one would actually get dumber by indulging in such behavior.

Blogs Emerging with Technology

Honestly, my feelings on blogs were mixed when I first heard of them. I’ve always felt they were meant for use of self indulgence, of one simply talking about one’s self for on and on and on, simply ignoring all other opinions and facts about the world and everyone else. This may have come to pass simply by knowing some friends who all discus about themselves on these blogs. Then I was open to the idea that even though blogs are used for that manner, they could also be used for much more.

I feel that blogs open a multitude of possibilities within one’s education. Blogs could be useful in matters such as communication between instructors and student. It adds more of a personal feel to communication, rather than simply an email address does. Also along side with that, blogs also open up the idea of communication between fellow students as well. If every student’s blog is link to the instructor’s, it opens the door wide open for students to get easy access with other students online.

Before coming to this class I would have to be honest and say I would have thought blogging as a, “A waste of Time,” but I’m already experiencing the perks of blogging within the class room setting. Now experiencing the perks of it for myself, I have to strongly argue that it in fact there is by no means a waste of time with blogging along side with educational purposes.

Some of the technological ideas that really stood out were all the different kinds of blogs available and uses for them. There are so many benefits to having a blog within a classroom setting, such as I mentioned before, communication both with the instructor and fellow class mate on a more personal basis. Also along side with that, an instructor can place important class information such as assignments assignments, and outside resources to further assist their student towards success within the course. Also blogs could be link people together and open the idea of having online communities of discussion and community with one another. Not to forget to mention all the different kinds of blogs as well, such as the expert-blogs, teacher-blogs, and of course the student-blogs. All of which could be used in combination with each other within a classroom setting to add depth and an interesting factor within the learning process.

About me!

Hello to All!

This will be my first semester here at Texas A&m Commerce. I am a transfer student from the Dallas area, (DCCCD). My major, is Art education so I dig art! It was at Eastfield college that I discovered my passion for it, and ever sense I've been wanting to pursue it passionately.

A little about my family. I have an older brother, David, hes 26 I believe? ha! He is married to his high school sweet heart, and he is beyond great, he is an awesome guy. My mom is my strong hold, shes been ever sense i could remember, yes I'm a mommas boy! ha!