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Louise K Forman
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Looking for your feedback and suggestions regarding our homepage
Love the idea of a starter page for new members plus a welcome message to new members that gives a few guidelines on how to get started. I find the current home page a bit overwhelming. I didn't se...
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"Tetris players are not block heads" --by Laura Sanders in Science News
I'm hoping it IS true, as my boys played Tetris a lot during their adolescence. I'd love to see a study about adults who play Tetris. I have logged A LOT of hours with that game! (Unfortunately, I ...
Tagged: neuroscience, tetris, games
Replied Oct 2
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Love the idea of a starter page for new members plus a welcome message to new members that gives a few guidelines on how to get started. I find the current home page a bit overwhelming. I didn't see the Quick Guide to Fireside until a third visit ...
I'm hoping it IS true, as my boys played Tetris a lot during their adolescence. I'd love to see a study about adults who play Tetris. I have logged A LOT of hours with that game! (Unfortunately, I don't currently have a copy of the game on my comp...
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- I am a business administrator at a large public university (Rutgers) so I am not directly involved in the academic side of the university. However, I am very interested in the field. My particular interests include: technology in education, business/marketing/communication, encouraging more women and minorities to pursue STEM majors, information literacy, among other topics.
- About Me:
- I am an empty-nester, my youngest son having just graduated from college last May. Through my sons, I have been exposed to additional aspects of higher education in a variety of university settings. I have an undergraduate degree in Public Relations, a master's degree in Library & Information Science (MLIS), and a second master's degree in Business Administration (MBA). I have worked in advertising agencies, a magazine and a local newspaper, a management training company, and for the past 10 years, a major public university.
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 9:29pm on October 1, 2009,
Louise K Forman said…
- Thanks to both of you for the warm welcome! I'm looking forward to getting into some good discussions here - it looks like a place where I might find great intellectual stimulation. My husband calls me a perpetual student; I take that as a compliment.
Connie - (It looks like non-members can see everything posted here, so if I talk about my family, I'll probably be a bit vague, for their sakes.) Letting go of our kids as they mature is a very individual process, and different for everyone. I didn't have that much trouble, as it happened gradually. My oldest went to college very close to home (although he did live on campus) and I saw him fairly frequently. The second one went a bit further away, about an hour from home, but it was still easy to see him now and then. He could also get home by public transportation. The youngest went the furthest away, a 5 to 6 hour drive from home, so we saw him very infrequently while he was in college. Ironically, he's the one we tended to worry most about. Email and text messages help, as boys don't always enjoy long phone conversations with parents. :-) I hope your daughter has a great experience. Worry comes with the territory, however. Just try to relax and know that she's probably a very level-headed young lady. All 3 of my boys had different academic interests (one is in engineering, by the way) and had different ideas of what they wanted in a school and in a school environment (city/suburb/rural, small/medium/huge, etc.). It was fun exploring all those schools! After a while, they tended to blur together, though, so taking notes and maybe some snapshots is a good idea. They all wound up in places that were a pretty good fit but only one of them was a perfect fit. I went to a school that wasn't a good fit for me and, as a consequence, I have very little alumni fervor for it.
- At 8:39am on October 1, 2009,
Skip Zilla said…
- Welcome, Louise.
We're not confined by the 140-character message size here, as we are on Twitter. Besides the Forum discussions you can start or comment on, you have a blog here, too, which you can personalize to your own voice and interests. Be aware, also, that this site is multimedia friendly, so you can insert photos, music, videos in nearly any post you make.
Connie's greeting reflects the good will and collegiality that exists in the Fireside Learning community. So don't hesitate to jump into the activity here and to make new friends. Knowing you from Twitter, I'm sure you don't need that kind of encouragement, though.
Thanks for joining this community of not-so-young-in-age-only learners!
Skip
- At 7:20am on October 1, 2009,
Connie Weber said…
- Greetings, Louise,
Glad to have you here. Your range of interests and experiences will add a lot to our community.
I have a daughter who just took a gap-year from University of Michigan Music School to work as a traveling performer in the group "Barrage." Interesting new stage for me as a parent. Every time she calls she's in a new place! How do I rein in my worries? (Really, I'm not that worried, but it's interesting to watch myself evolve as a mother! Did you have any evolving to do when kids' college time came along?)
My son is just doing the college-shopping thing now. He's a lucky one--he's been targeted by the colleges as a good engineering recruit. It's interesting to read the college's viewbooks, to see how they're slanted towards bringing him in. I wonder... what about the students entering college who have nothing in their favor? How do they continue their education, find the right place, grow according to the best of their hopes and abilities?
Regarding Fireside, maybe you and I can get some business/econ discussions going here now and then. That area is kind of a hobby of mine; I like thinking of economics the same way I think of science-ecologies, evolution, survival, all that.
Anyhow, join right in. I hope you enjoy this learning community!
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