November 1 - Thankful for Tech

November has arrived! Let’s focus on what we’re thankful for. A new challenge post will go up each day of the month. Take a pic, write a haiku, find a quote. Tweet it or Instagram it or post it here or email it to highedthx@gmail.com. Hashtag it #highedthx. We’ll post all the good, thankful business here.

TODAY… think about something TECH you’re thankful for. What tech device can you not live without? Tweet, Instagram, post, or email it to highedthx@gmail.com.

Let’s take a month to consider

The year I graduated from high school, I had to give a speech in front of my church family. There was no direction given - I guess something higher than me was supposed to help me choose a topic.

As speech day neared, I still didn’t have a topic. My mother sat me down and - rather harshly, I thought - told me, “You know what your problem is? You think you’ve done all this yourself. You haven’t. Think about that.”

Mom was right. When I finally realized that my speech could be one of thanks, it became a lot easier to write. Gratitude is hard to express sometimes. A shove in the right direction is incredibly helpful, and I hope a month of gratitude prompts - in November, no less - can help. We complain a whole lot. Can we take November 2013 to reframe our work?

For each day in November, I plan on posting a prompt here for a photo, a poem, a post of some sort. I’ll tweet the prompts as well, and you can tweet your response or email me or post the response here. 

Please tag your posts #highedTHX.