Housekeeping: Setting Up Gmail Account, Blogger, etc.

Setting up a Gmail account is a pretty easy thing to do, honestly the hardest part is finding a username that hasn't been taken. However setting up this Blogger was a bit more difficult. What seemed as if it would be a seamless setup (simply linking your gmail to Blogger to create an account) ended up being the most difficult part of this module thus far.

In this course I expect to learn about art and the impact it has on our community and culture. I expect to learn how to analyze and interpret art by considering its processes and subjects, and be able to look closer into the different implications it could have in different communities.

Taking an online course is something I have never done before, but I am excited to see how effective this method of instruction is, I like the idea of being able to work at my own pace with this class and hopefully be able to work ahead. I feel positive about the class overall, I am quite excited to be taking art education courses.

The growth mindset videos were very refreshing. I feel as though they were a good palette cleanser to start off the course. I connected most with the idea that failure is a part of success and that set backs are normal. Learning is not linear. It also helped me to find out that by trying to learn new things, we make our brains stronger and that just because one might have trouble learning a subject, that they could strengthen their brain through studying another sub-sect of the same topic or a completely different topic in itself; because learning anything strengthens the synopsis in the brain. Making learning easier and easier. It also resonated with me about feeling as though you have a fixed amount of skill or talent and learning that that skill and that talent can be expanded. And that sometimes that growth and that expansion of skill and talent can be expanded only through the help of someone else. It has been a recent thing for me to learn how to tell when I've gone the furthest I can on my own and it's time for me to reach out for help.

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