Tinker, Tinker, Little Star

     I have done it, no I am not talking about Tweeting or Facebooking because in all honesty both of those scare me. No, I haven't recently discovered a postcard that I constructed on the main page of postsecret.com.  No, I am not queen of podcasting or Evernoting or linking my blog to another.  Instead, I have officially started to use my blog as a means of cultivation.  Cultivation of my thoughts, cultivation of ideas and my Google Reader (AH!)  that is just pure cultivation of the highest degree.  Not only am I cultivating things that interest me like DIY (I am a sucker for a good DIY) and cooking, but also resources and words of wisdom from educators who have tested the water before.  Now, I know what you are thinking, Lindsay we needed to do that weeks ago, seriously that's not that exciting.  But, see, the thing is, I have finally begun to understand blogging as something enriching, not something assigned.  Yes, I have tinkered with my blog a bit, but until this week, I hadn't taken a good hard look at random peoples' blogs to help me refine my thoughts and ideas.  Until this weekend, my Google Reader was relatively barren, with me rapidly scrolling through 90% of things to get them unbolded - side note, I am not sure what it is about bolding that puts me on high alert and in the mindset that I have to unbold this and I have to unbold it fast.
     So, tinkering for me this week wasn't trying out something brand new, instead it was working with something that I was somewhat familiar with.  I think this is equally as important as figuring out something new.  More videos were watched, blogs visited, words defined through comparing blogs this week than in the past 6 weeks combined.  When I started the class, I don't honestly think I understood how much energy the blog takes.  Initially it was just a place to type words, but over my time in the class it has become a sanctuary of words, of thoughts, of ideas, of like-minded ideas from like-minded people.  Tinkering this week wasn't about how much I could learn about something new, but rather it was about figuring out how to make something that I have been using work more to my advantage.  I honestly couldn't stop wandering from site to site looking for similarities and differences, searching for common threads to draw people closer than their physical locations would suggest.  Tinkering for me actually is a lot like the song title I remixed, "Tinker, Tinker little star, how I wonder what you are (technology=unknown), up above the world so high (Signal-sending-space-satellites), like a diamond in the sky (Internet is definitely worth more than a diamond/Big Brother?/Something shiny that catches our attention?)" Perhaps that is a bit of a stretch, but I think you get what I am saying  . . . I hope.