I have no choice but to be a multi-tasker. I am a mother, a teacher, and a student, so I have to juggle all the responsibilities of those different roles. I try to set aside a portion of my time for each of these activities, especially my responsibilities as a mother. I make sure I set aside some time each day when I am solely focused on my daughter. I also try to spend my time at school focusing on my responsibilities as a teacher, but many times, I have no choice to overlap all these activities. For instance, I am typing this blog post at school now.
I often use checklists or to-do lists to keep me focused and on task. I have found that I enjoy the feeling of checking off each task as I complete them and that keeps me motivated. This isn’t a high-tech system, but it seems to work. I also try to remove as many distractions as possible.
I am just becoming a user of Web 2.0 tools, so my biggest challenge right now is just remembering what tools I have available and what each tool is capable of doing. I have been using my Delicious account to store all the websites which contain these tools and I hope to continue adding more tools to my repertoire. Thankfully, I do not feel that I am sacrificing other parts of my life for Web 2.0 sites and do not foresee me becoming this obsessed with these applications. I am very much convinced that my students and I need to balance the use of technology with traditional forms of learning and communication, and I hope to express the importance of knowing how to use technology along with more traditional forms of interaction, collaboration, and creativity.
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