It’s that time of year again. The time of year when ads for pumpkin spiced lattes, pumpkin flavored donuts, pumpkin-this and pumpkin-that are everywhere and folks are preparing for family get-togethers and holiday meals. It’s that time of year where people begin doing those month-long challenges on Facebook…you know, the ones where they […]

      Mindfulness seems to be a hot topic right now both in education and in terms of how we use technology. I recently read about some primary schools that are implementing breaks for the students to use meditation and different techniques to increase mindfulness and help calm some of the “wiggles’ in the students. […]

After all that talk about prayer, I’m sure that many of you would like to hear about something different and I am happy to oblige. I would like to devote this post to what comes after all the praying…and in between all the other praying! After reading my last post, some of you may be […]

As I was spending time in the scripture and preparing myself to write this very post, it occurred to me that this is the third post I’ve devoted to prayer and I wondered if this was really something God was leading me to write more about. Of course, I have been studying the book of […]

            The Save the Kimberley Facebook page was launched on April 2, 2007 with the intent to bring awareness to people around the world about the devastating results that would surely ensue if a gas pipeline were to be placed under the sea at the Kimberley Coast in Western Australia. […]

  Amanda Leigh Curtis, Amanda Curtis, Amanda L. Curtis, “Amanda Leigh Curtis”. I probably searched my name about ten different ways on Google. I looked through all of the images shown as well as the websites that resulted from these searches. Thankfully, my digital footprint has not been all too significant.       After […]

My motto in life is a verse from a song by an artist named Trevor Hall. It very simply says, “Love all; serve all; create no sorrow”. Reflecting upon this statement may bring about a flow of deep thoughts but you may not consider that this saying could relate at all to a person’s activity […]

To be quite honest, my first thought of taking an online class entitled Literacy in the Digital Age was utter fear. I was extremely anxious due to the fact that I had never taken an online class nor was I familiar with a lot of the current technology other than Facebook. I guess you could […]

  After reading through Colossians 3 fully I came to the conclusion that this may be one of those chapters in the Bible that people really don’t want to read or learn from. This chapter tends to focus on how we are to behave as Christians. One thing that we must understand is that it […]

I am going to start by making an assumption: Most of you do not know what ds106 is and may have never heard of it. Don’t feel bad. Until two days ago, I fell into this category of folks also. I have spent several hours researching, reading, googling, playing, and setting up multiple social media […]

  Project-based learning peaked my interest when I reflected back on my school years and realized how much more engaged and in control I was in my own learning when I was involved in either an individual or a group project. I was also intrigued by this method of learning when I watched children in […]

  Paul begins the third chapter of Colossians with, “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things”. For many people, believers and non-believers alike, this may be confusing. What […]

    I had never heard of a PLN or Personal Learning Network until this assignment. I will be the first to admit that I was more than hesitant and quite intimidated by the idea of having to learn how to use technology to accomplish the task of building my own PLN. However, I was […]

    Knowledge is good, right? We all need to learn in order to grow and as I stated in my last post, we all should thirst for knowledge. But, what if some of that knowledge were dangerous to us? How could this be so? In Colossians chapter 2, Paul addresses this conundrum. If you […]

I recently went to a demolition derby in Maxwell, Nebraska and watched as my 8 year old daughter ran around with a bunch of boys hitting the football pads at the back of the pasture. I wondered why my child who had never had a particular interest in football would suddenly decide to take tips […]

      As I sit in my car and wait for my 8 year old daughter to get out of school, I find myself reflecting on an extra TED Talk I watched yesterday ( FYI- I have become slightly addicted to these TED Talks). This particular TED Talk was given by a woman named […]

  Ahh, the life of a student! So many people think that college kids have it easy. Well, I’m here to tell ya, that is not the case…especially for those of us who are non-traditional students trying to juggle a million roles at once. Although I will admit this has been a stressful week for […]

I recently watched Dan Gilbert’s TED Talk on the science of being happy. I always gain something from watching TED Talks, no matter who the speaker nor what the topic, but WOW. This was by far my favorite TED Talk yet and it is one for which I will never forget the content. The very […]

As I said in my last blog post, I decided to use my Learning Project time studying the Bible but after considering the amount of time I actually have to devote to studying and learning for this project, I decided it would be best if I chose one book of the Bible to study rather […]

I remember going to church with my mother, stepfather, and sometimes my grandparents from a very young age. It was just the way our family was. At the age of 7 I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and asked him to live in my heart and guide me for the rest of […]