School’s out for most of us. Educators across the northern hemisphere are relaxing for the first time in months, looking forward to a month or a little more of R&R, sitting by the pool in sunglasses, or taking a vacation or a fact-finding tour of Paris, London, Tokyo, or some other exotic locale that they teach about. But they aren’t blogging, and they aren’t e-mailing. It’s quiet.
I’m busy programming, doing some writing, and preparing my presentations for NECC. I also have a number of workshops and other events to keep me busy between now and then. I’m traveling up to Chapel Hill later this morning for a day-long session on blogging and the read/write web.
I suspect that NECC will be the awakening for the summer, as educators privileged to attend will be blogging the event, and virtual attendees will be reading and responding.
One problem that has been haunting me over the last few weeks is how to lasso blogging a little more firmly into the instructional endeavor, some sort of unified field theory that more clearly aligns blogging to literacy, especially to new literacy. I’m working on it, not that I’ll find anything. I keep trying to mimic Einstein and his thought experiments, but all I come up with is sun glasses and fact-finding tours of Scotland 😉
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Image Reference
w00kie, “Trading Sunglasses.” W00kie’s Photostream. 9 Mar 2005. 14 Jun 2006 <http://flickr.com/photos/w00kie/6219343/>.
“…and fact-finding tours of Scotland”
You’d be welcome back anytime. I notice however that Scotland did not make it into the list of “exotic locales” you give at the top of the post… fair enough I suppose! 🙂
We are not quite on holiday yet, but not far off it! Looking forward to reading what happens at NECC.
School is still in on the Olympic Peninsula, but we teachers are sure tired. I really like the idea of new literacy and podcasting.