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My name is Carmina and this is my blog space for course 5510 Technology-Based Learning Environment Section 080.  I’m hoping to complete the MSLT program at the end of summer 2017.  I work for a dental college in North Texas and I hope that after completing this program, I will be promoted.  I have never used Canvas before and I’m very excited yet nervous about building a whole course in a new environment in which I know very little of.

A little about me.  I am originally from central Mexico but have lived in Dallas most of my life.  I love watching Netflix original series from all around the world.  Netflix has some great international shows.  I just finished watching "Club de Cuervos", a Netflix original show that takes place in a made-up town in Mexico.  The show is all in Spanish but I recommended even to those who do not know this language.  The story is silly but well written and the acting is superb.  This is the first year in which I have actually made a new year’s resolution.  My resolution is to read more.  I hardly read any books and I typically read the same ones over and over again.  In the first week of January, I finished reading The Diary of Yong Girl by Ann Frank.  Part of my new year’s resolution is to also do something associated with whichever book I might be reading.  For the Diary of Young Girl, I visited the Holocaust museum in Dallas.  Right now, I’m half-way through reading Anna Karenina.  Now that the semester has started, I’m not sure how long it will take me to finish this book.  I am thinking that for this book, I might watch the movie based on the book or go eat at a Russian restaurant, not sure.

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