No Matter, There

I’m looking forward to a year of honing my teaching skills and catching up!  Last year was a year of “immersion” learning: learning of development, marketing and admissions skills at the small school where I work. It was exciting and exhilarating to see my tech skills pay off in ads and postcards–heck, I even scripted a radio commercial–and to see a positive effect in the real world results of increased interest in our school–but it was also exhausting to take that on and keep teaching my specials classes.

This year, I’m pleased to drop the administrative hat and concentrate on teaching. Catching up will take a little bit.  I’ve hundreds of blog posts to read waiting in my RSS feeder, and new (to me) products and services to evaluate (for instance, what are the latest options for student blogging? It’s been a year since I checked that out!).  I’ll be checking back in with the people and blogs who were so inspiring to me to start with–everyone from Will Richardson to Rick Biche.  I have a new colleague or two who I expect will be leading me into new, cool tools and effective practices, too.  I want to read about what has been going on with gaming and online collaboration. I want to experiment with “wow” services like Twitter and see if they’ll really be useful and who they will be useful to. I’m really looking forward to resuming reflective practice.

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