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My First Blog Post

🌎 My First Blog Post

As I prepare to embark on this journey of attaining my Masters through Middlesex University, I am reminded of how little I know about the tech world. 

Oh, I use tech. I don't live in the dark ages. I have a laptop, smartphone (yes, upgraded from my Nokia flip phone), and we even have a wireless home security system that talks directly to that smartphone. I also use tech in dance class. I have my set playlists, and use my iPod, or laptop for music, my phone for slow-mo videos, and have even ventured to try Spotify. I do not consider myself to be very tech-savvy. I feel like as soon as I know how to use and manage an app or device, something updates and changes! And then the pandemic. Offering us ways to grow. We pivot and shift. It has challenged us in many ways and opened a new cyber door for a lot of us to walk through - Zoom. 

Zooming. Is it a verb? It does feel like that some days. Zooming between music windows, monitoring and admitting students through the waiting room, breakout rooms, using the whiteboard, monitoring the chat, sharing the screen to show syllabus, notes, or a youtube video, jumping up to adjust camera angles while I demonstrate both facing away from the camera, and mirroring their little bodies in the tiny squares on my screen. All while remaining calm and trying to keep the students engaged from their basement, bedroom, or living room with ample distractions of their own to manage. 

And now, Blogging. A new verb first recorded in 1999 according to Merriam-Webster.com. I guess I am 21 years behind the times. But just in time to help me connect with my classmates who are debarking with me on this new journey from their locations, all over the globe. 

So I guess you could say I am learning. I keep learning. Learning and practicing. And that's why I am about to start my Masters of Professional Practice. 

"I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired." ― Martha Graham

I look forward to practicing with and learning from all of you out there, as we continue to expand our world in ways only technology can provide us with. 




Location: Canada

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