Get rid of one of the worries

Pouring out my thoughts and worries is helping me to get clear, actually. I just realized desappointing in someones is not my worry, it is not my priority in life, so I don't need to get obsessed with this that he is that or she is that, it is their business and your business is your life. yes, my business is finding a job, taking good care of my family, improving my professionalism. Yes, this is my business, this is the subject I need to focus or worry for.

ye he, I got clear in one of the subjects.

Bayajih tuhai bodol

Bayan hunii hiidgiig hiilguigeer bayajina gej baihgui gedeg ni oilgojmtoi, bagsh hun bayajsan tuuh hovor baih aa. Gehdee unuudriin minii nuhtsul namaig genet business woman bolgohguigees hoish amidraliinhaa chig handlagiig todorhoilohood daraahi baidlaar handaya.

1. Minii mergejil unuudur minii gol hooloo olj ideh batalgaat heregsel bolog.
2. Harin busad sonirhdog zuil, yalanguya businessiig bi part time baidlaar bainga hiiye.
Munguu real estate, investment, uuriin businessiig ehleh, bas baingiin heregleendee anhaarah. Stock bas zugeer yum bna.

Yana aa, 30 hurchiheed baidag, minii baij baigaa tsarai! Yavch shine mashin avaad demii bololtoi.

Teaching writing

I wanna share my experience with my other class EDCI 523- Teaching writing.

This course introduces us basic teaching theories and principles, related researches, teaching methods. Among the resources used, I found Tompkins’ book “Teaching Writing – Balancing Process and Product” incredibly helpful. It is a complete step by step tool for writing teachers. The book discusses about five-stages writing process, writing workshop, mini-lessons, writing strategies and skills, writing assessment, its procedure and techniques and introduces writing genres like journal, letter, biography, expository writing, narrative writing, descriptive writing, poetry writing and persuasive writing. The book accompanying CD also gives an extraordinary insight into actual classroom teaching. In addition, Mrs. Beltran’s knowledgeable and practical guidance throughout all small projects gives great experiences on owning the knowledge and skills taught in this course. Thus, this course gave me a new look at writing procedure. After all, being English teacher means being able to teach them an academic English, most of all, how to write, I think. I want to be a teacher who is able to help children and adults how to write in English in a sophisticated manner. Being exposed to the principles and practices, now it is up to me to excel the skill.

Links about financial education

I am learning a lot. Creating my own webpage gives a lot of hands on experiences, I find it very challenging and yet still enjoying. This process really requires being creative. The strangest thing is I am having a trouble being creative; I see and feel some limit regardless how I want. Obviously, it is caused by my inability to work with technology.

One thing I found useful is I found a lot of interesting and good websites while searching for the sites to be used for my lesson. Since my lesson was on banking service, the materials I found were all related to money, bank etc. If you are interested you can check these links.
http://marshallbrain.com/million.htm
http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/moneysmart/mscbi/mscbi.html
http://www.studykiosk.com/CreditBasics/DebtConsolidation/Moneylessons-Stock-basics.aspx

more updates

It’s mid of the quarter. A lot of assignments' due date are approaching. Feel a little bit pressure. Having a baby at home and trying to focus doing my homework and home chores - not easy.

I am still struggling with my webquest building task. Actually, I found a good website, so having good resource is very helpful. I am happy for that. We are doing a website on basic banking service, and I am actually learning something new myself about banking while searching for the related materials. I hope we can do something really helpful for our audience. RE my writing class, I love it too. I am learning a lot. It is surprising that here children learn the writer’s learning process from kindergarten level.

Updates

Actually, I found an answer to why I tended to have the product as soon as possible. Research by Carson reveals that Chinese and Japanese writing is product oriented and English writing is often process oriented. Well, since I am an Asian, I guess I am part of that. However, our writing system is different than Japanese and Chinese, Mongolian traditional writing goes from top to bottom.

For my writing class, the last home assignment was to write a descriptive writing. I have to admit that even in my native language, I have never attempted doing that and obviously, it wasn’t easy task doing it in different language. My poor vocabulary really bothered me to express me ideas. With guidance, I handled it somehow. Good thing is I am still enjoying this challenging work of writing. It awakens me.

RE computer class, even though it is fun to create website etc, having no access to Front Page at home really bothered me. Thank God, I found one yesterday and was able to finish my page.

Learning

I decided to focus on one theme.

I find the process of creating my website quite fun and challenging. I searched several sample websites developed by former students and among them, I found Undra’s website very focused and useful for the audience, the links she provided are excellent source of information. Scott’s page looks fascinating also, especially his picture selections. From Undra’s website, I read a very powerful sentence that “…writing is a process what we have to grow and cook message.” I’ve never thought that way about writing. This message gave me the realization about what I need to do with my writing. Usually, I tend to write my papers in one sitting, which is very true in my case and no wonder about the quality of my papersJ! So I learned I need to be more patient when I write.

My other class on Teaching Writing actually confirms and enriches my understanding about writing from Undra’s site. The class discusses about the balance between writing process and product, which is very interesting and true concept. In my case, I often require myself to make the product ready and push myself to come up with beautiful and meaningful ideas, yet feeling blank. I just blamed myself for not being able to put words in attractive ways and believed that those who write beautifully are born with it. Through the class, I realized that I ignored the very important stage which is the PROCESS. By learning all the detailed steps what writers take, for the first time I allowed myself to sink into the writing process without hurry and pressure to quickly finish, and it actually felt great and gave me more freedom to think in depth and thus produce my own ideas. This was a BIG LEARNING.

I am curious how others write.