Blog #1:
Hallo,
I am Nick. I live in Reseda and I spend my time playing, recording, and producing music. I love many types of music including but not limited to Country, Ska-punk, Metal, Rock, and anything else that has more guitars than synthesizers. I play the guitar and sax and I dabble in bass and drums. Also I train and work with horses. I am about to graduate college, get married and start my career as a teacher; hopefully in that order.
I am very afraid that something will not work out this year with school, or whatever credentialing program I decide to go with and that I will not be able to begin working and stop being a "starving college student." That used to be a title I liked, but now its getting very old. My hope, then, is to get a job this summer and begin teaching in September. That leads to a whole new level of anxiety: how will I deal with students? how will I structure my class? how will I grade papers? Do I even know how to grade papers? Do I know how to teach effectively? will anybody care? etc...
I have always enjoyed learning and being in school in general. Teaching therefore, will allow me to never have to venture into the "real world."
I'm not sure about technology, it will depend on what is available where I'm going to teach. Hopefully that will be somewhere in the boonies where there won't really be a lot of technology. I imagine that I will use movies and perhaps the internet to add more material to the class however. I tend to be a year or two behind technology, also fashion.
