I haven't been blogging about school for quite awhile which is vvveeeerrryy verrryyy BA-DDDDD

(the new room for our son)

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this yoville thing has got me hooked almost 24/7, if it weren't for work and classes i'd be online all day. luckily i come from a psychological perspective with a background on metacognition (thinking about thinking) and I am aware about my addiction which is not very healthy anymore LOL. that's why i have to control and stop myself

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BUT. the good news is. I ALREADY BOUGHT A HOUSE! WORTH 15K! *phew* ...

there was a 5k and 10k house but too small for me. lol.

where did i get the money? - my real world FRIENDS. hahahaha... if i had to earn it it will take a month of addiction. ..

thank goodness for great friends in facebook. (since ofcourse i cannot ask anyone in yoville world to give me money because apparently the fact that they are there means they are addicted too)

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OLIVER ON THE OTHER HAND. wants to stop playing because he is envious of my house. and sweet of me, i will buy him his own house. lol... not as big as mine though, no money anymore. but atleast it will highten up the motivation to keep him playing yoville. YOVILLE JUST MAKES ME NOT TO DWELL ON TIME SO MUCH THAT THE NEXT THING I'D REALIZE IS THAT IT IS ALREADY MID AUGUST - then my sweetheart's back in manila! *weeee*

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i redecorated my apartment by the way... it welcomes visitors and customers, and for the parteehhh...

*** okay reality check now... gotta read those articles! *** =)

Last Thursday (July 9, 2009). I posted a note on my Facebook
account to my college blockmates and friends who were taking up
graduate school too.

I informed them that I need to create a research proposal already
within the span of a week for my research class.
Talk about the pressure.

BUT!

Just for the record, 5 days after (July 14, 2009 which is today)
I AM ALMOST FINISHED WITH MY RESEARCH PROPOSALLLLL!!! 
I'm just going to need to polish it tomorrow with some citing,
and proof reading. WHOOOHOoOOOOO


Talk about inspired.


Workaholic life, here I gooooo again!!!

Research is .

Research class made us take a pre-test on some basic rules in using the APA format. Even though it was just a pre-test and it's purpose is just a measure to identify what and how much you already know, I felt the pressure of not making any mistakes since we were using APA our whole life in undergrad .

After answering the pre-test we were to take the APA Style Online Tutorial, read and answer a few excercise. It was fun and if only we already new about this during our undergraduate years then we wouldn't have to go through the stress on following the wrong way to reference or cite.

I got 100% scores on all the online quiz and excercises. *weepee!*

Pre-test, two mistakes -_- Well, I can just simply say those items were exactly some of the conflicts I had during undergrad which was never confirmed to be incorrect nor what was the correct way of citing/referencing it.

BUT the good part is at least now I KNOW. and I got me a 100% too in the Post-test!

*claps* for me.

oooh. btw, another part of our homework is to start writing a concept paper about what we plan on doing for our Action Research. *the stress begins*   i.e. Only a few days to come up with a research proposal!! why oh so why so fast.

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For more post about Teaching and Research. Please visit my blogspot account I love bravenet, but there are no tags to organize my posts 

My Name is Toni Rose Pinero, 21 years old, and I used to have the blog “Music to My Ears: Life as an undergrad waiting for graduation” which used to be filled with my rants and emotions of my college life since I love writing and I found it to be very therapeutic. My ultimate goal there was to graduate with honors which I did and roughly after a few months from graduation, I ended up deciding to delete the blog (and not to keep it as a souvenir) as a sign of moving on.

I used to work at Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Company, an international company having a more so good paying job and a great head start for a fresh graduate. However after a few months, I felt that I was destined to do such more (yes at a very early stage in my fresh grad life) so I resigned. I took a rest which I have never done before after graduation (just for a month), applied for graduate school as a part-time student and took a part-time job as a tutor in Tutoring Club.

And because I really love writing I am blogging once again, inspired by my Principles in Learning Class (lesson in metacognition – thinking about thinking), Research Class (lesson in action research – doing, reflecting and documenting), and work in Tutoring Club (making tutoring achieve long term goals). But this time, I am viewing my blog in a whole new perspective. It’s learning how to be a learner forever. The purpose of this blog is also for scientific research purposes. By tracking down my reflections on how I teach in work, what I’ve learned in my graduate classes, and how I can apply it in real life situations and observing the changes and my improvements as a tutor/teacher. My discipline is to be able to reflect on each of my class meetings which happens to be twice a week, and to reflect on each of my tutoring days which happens on days I don’t have classes.

Hopefully I wouldn’t decide on deleting this blog in the future as it will eventually be a source of information for other learners, pre-service teachers and current teachers as well.

Besides, there’s no end to learning… each day we learn in all sorts of different contexts… we just don’t put in into writing… and my blog’s ultimate goal is to be: A Learning Forever. So I guess there will be no goodbyes for this blog –

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School: De La Salle University - Manila
Bachelor Degree: Bachelor in Science Major in Educational Psychology 2005-2008

School: De La Salle University - Manila
Masteral Degree: Masters of Art Major in Learning and Teaching 2009 – Present

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