This is me, on my way out the door to start my 2008 tour 😉
I wish I could say that I’m fully rested, recreated, and 100% enthused about hitting the road again. I can’t. I’ve gotten to accustomed to almost having a routine.
Yet, along with the waits a security, the evenings in a hotel room, the constant reasoning through one travel challenge after another, there are those many moments when I’m talking and listening and I’m learning something new — always something new.
One of my college professors, when I attended community college in Gaston County, said time and time again, that “…you know you’re getting smart when you start to realize just how much you don’t know.“
I may not be 100% enthused, but I’m a good 95% — because it’s going to be a good year.
2¢ Worth!
I hope your professor was right. I feel increasingly stupid these days. I realise how much there is for me to learn, how much I don’t know, how inexpert I am at, well, everything. On one hand, that is exciting, because it means the journey ahead won’t be dull. On the other hand, it can be daunting – almost overwhelming.
So glad you are on the road again — and hope you will ustream some of your sharing with others.
Look forward to seeing you at EduCon2 — hope hope!!
Jen
Good luck on the road 🙂 I’m sure we will hear many insights from you while you are out and about. I look forward to it.
Thanks for the response- safe travels, and I look forward to seeing you at METC in a few weeks!
I’m sending you energy and calm from my old hippy heart. I enjoy your travels, so there, there’s another benefit for you–providing vicarious travel to all us classroom/school-bound teachers who follow yours.
The only time I’ll get to see you in person, “irl,” will be at NECC in San Antonio, so I’m very much looking forward to that. Meanwhile, I’m energized and calmed by your sharings.
Godspeed and travel save, man. I break a virtual bottle of champagne upon the virtual hull of your 2008 travels.
95% is good! It’s when you hit 60 that you know you’re in trouble. I love the quote and have been thinking recently how much I still don’t know about all this crazy tech stuff I’m getting into. Guess that makes me smart?
Yes, you are on the road and on your way to EdTech in Ashland, VA. I am really excited about seeing you there.
I read your post last Sunday and had so much to say about it. Just last week I decided how to put together one of my presentations showing off what a few teachers at my school have done. You propose technology as a platform. I advocate making technology transparent. I think it is the same.
I’ve been arguing with a few people about what the focus of educational technology conferences should be. I thin we should move beyond the mind-numbing how-to sessions of click here and type there. We need to be showing valid, real-world examples of what teachers are doing. Technology tools are reaching a point where they are so easy to use, or to learn to use, we just need to dream up ways of using them.
One of the teachers coming with me to EdTech has turned her Spanish classroom into a computer lab using the “old” computers teachers used to have. Her kids NEVER conjugate verbs in isolation. They skype, discuss on Moodle, podcast, take pictures, make movies, and always work as a group. She thinks she isn’t doing anything special. You should see how special it really is. She’d believe it coming from you.