I am sure this will change. . . I know it will change. . .  but I feel a little like I am standing in an enormouos  seven-foot deep pool.  I can bounce on the bottom so that my head rises above the surface now and again and suck in a lungful of air but my head soon goes under and the (slight) panic sets in.  I can tread water and breathe normally but only for short periods. 

I am sure that I would have drowned before now were it not for my cadre-mates.  They make me realize that I am not alone and not the only one.  Last night we played League of Legends for a couple of hours and , even though I am a self-professed non-gamer (some might even say gameaphobic) I was surprised how quickly I was able to pick up the technique and goals of the game. 

So, one small step, or perhaps I should say one small breath.  Perhaps it's me, or perhaps the pool is getting shallower, whichever may be, I am breathing more frequently now and I think I may continue to do so.

One of my early photography professors Joe Gonda was, I believe, from Czechoslovakia.  He had a pretty thick accent as well as a very interesting way of looking at the world.  Not sure what he did there but one of his positions before coming to teaching was with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  An amazing guy and a great teacher.  One day he was critiquing one of my photo assignments and said "it looks like organized disorder."  He went on to say that there were too many "things" in the picture. . . but that everything was "composed nicely."

Three or so weeks into the MALT program, and only one synchronous session under my belt and that's the way I feel right now.  Organized disorder.  There are, it feels like, too many "things" coming at me (us?) at once.  A myriad of tools, websites, assignments, elements and other things to keep straight and not lose track of.   And really. . .  it's not even begun!

I tallied only the websites used so far in class and came up with the following list:

1. Wavenet
2. Sakai Cog Tools
3. Sakai Action Research
4. Sakai Learning Design
5. Center for Collaborative Action Research
6. MindMaps
7. Weebly
8. Weebly blog
9. Weebly gaming blog:
10. Pepperdine Gmail
11. Personal Gmail
12. Google+
13. Edmodo
14. And quite a few that I didn't list.