Knowing vs. Doing

As my last post had stated, I felt like learned a lot from Dr. Herr on website design and how to integrate internet technology and resources into classroom teaching. It was unfortunate that I did not get most of what we had been learning until very late in the semester - right around the time I created this blog which was near the end of that semester.

It took me a whole semester following that to digest what I had learned and experiment on my own a little further. In August 2009, I eventually summed up the courage to publish my webpage on a public site and started using it to communicate with my students at Oxnard College in fall 2009.

My website is still under developing, just as my students and I myself. Still, I felt good about myself, because I am not only knowing how to create a website but also doing it which is the ultimate test on what I know. As I often stress it to my students, in learning Chemistry, you can not be sure that you have understood a concept until you can apply it to solve a problem correctly. To some of my tech-savy students, you might think to publish a website is something too easy. But trust me, it is as hard to me as chemistry is to you. Since I can make progress through practice and determination in website design, you should also in learning chemistry.

Good luck in this new semester!