Day 14

August 29, 2014

            “The more you learn, the more you learn you need to learn more… and more…” Something I heard today that Josh said. I heard this today and shook my head in complete agreement and laughed a little bit…. But after thinking about it, there couldn’t be a more true statement about learning. ECOEE is definitely in class mode right now with lesson after lesson and task after task and it is clear to me that all of us will gain so many things throughout this course. Knowledge, skill, strength, and a bond. An ECOEE bond, something less than 500 people can say they have. It’s something that is different for each group but I’m sure similar in so many ways too. While our friends back at WIU campus go about their day with a normal classroom and a bus to keep them dry on the way there, we are paddling miles to our next class and setting up a tarp to keep us dry while we have class. We all sit in a circle and get to look at everyone in their eyes and make connections, our classroom has the professor sitting right there with us on the same level providing real examples and stories to make sure each one of us understands. So we definitely do not have it the easiest, but we don’t want it to be that way either. This is the best classroom I’ve ever been in… and conveniently, it’s open all night so I can finish these evals and LOW work that has to get done.

-Greg Strobel