This is a test

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SAT

I was asked to proctor the SAT testing today for area seniors.  I kinda felt like the test administer Dr. Ramirez /Andy Garcia in Stand and Deliver as he gives instructions, observes, and walks around the room during the test.  Use a number 2 pencil, fill in the bubble completely, erase thoroughly, carefully read the questions, multiple choice answers, you will have 25 minutes for this portion of the test, you may begin the this portion of the test.  

Are the students of today ready to leave their adolescent and venture out into the world.  Are they ready for the next step?  As educators have you prepared them to go to college?  Am I ready for them to come to the university?   So many questions, eighteen years is so little time.  

Left brain, right brain

The Whole New Mind by Pink I read the sequential/simultaneous difference of the mind: the right hemisphere is the picture, and the left hemisphere is the thousand words.  I learn by seeing, I guess that is why I learned sign language.  (My husband says use a thousand words and that I love to talk, but that is for another blog J.)  I can see the whole thought through the sign(s) or picture. 

Most Sundays, a hearing church member comes after church to tell me they watch the sign language interpreter and listen to the pastor.  They somehow see the illustration better through pictures than just listening to the blah, blah, blah of the sermon.  Now, my pastor loves country music, and he has some illustrations that are specific for country music fans.  As an interpreter, my job is to decipher his message/words, interpret and put the words onto my hands to paint a picture so the deaf can relate the Bible lesson and the country song; not an easy task to incorporate music, culture, linguists, emotion, and meaning on your hands and not have sermon notes.  But with Pink, I have to remember “empathy builds self-awareness, bonds parent to child, allows us to work together, and provides the scaffolding for our mortality”. 

I enjoy interpreting and it allows me to interact with the deaf community.  I like the quote  Oprah Winfrey said: “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives”.  Did you read that; not our lives, but their lives. Something to think about.

Online this week

This week, not only am doing homework for 3 classes at UMHB, but I am taking a week long class for work. Friday and next Monday I will attend a webinar for more classes online. These new types of classes are different than the traditional lecture courses I did as an undergrad. The class, along with technology via the keyboard, and relating stories, symphony, empathy as Daniel H.Pink writes in A Whole New Mind, is a whole new concept. I especially enjoyed the chapters on design and laughter. Students at the university (where I work) like to come into the bookstore because we are always laughing :-)

Chinese Restaurant

Sometimes, when too many tasks overwhelm you, you've got to take life like a Chinese restaurant- one item from column A, one item from column B- until you're done for the day. Carolyn Kepcher

MSO 2010

If you need to upgrade to a new edition of Microsoft Office 2010, here is a link just for students!
Be sure to use your UMHB.edu email to qualify.
Only $80!

http://store.digitalriver.com/store?Action=DisplayStudentHeroRegistrationPage&Locale=en_US&SiteID=msshus

Happy Birthday C-4

I want to wish Jennifer and Andrea a Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful day!

The blogging setting are :-/

Good Morning C-4

Let's see who is up this morning early for class.

Anyone read any good books lately?