Things are already crazy enough in my world to be making this blogging stuff feel even more like work than it should. And it’s not surprising that some people give up the blogging ghost for any number of reasons. I’ve been wondering actually how I’ve been able to get in here as much as I have considering the pace of my professional and personal life. (And into what category does this venture fall, anyway?) I think what I realized is that so much of my life is immersed in this stuff that it’s hard to get away from it. And this space has really come to be the place I dump my thoughts and learning and general stuff about how I’m using them. Most people aren’t overseeing 200-plus sites, or creating school newspaper blogs and classroom blogs and student blogs and god knows whatever else. (And, of course, “Teach blogs? Blog.”) Shoot, my wife is even designing Web log Websites for local businesses. What’s next? Scary.
But the other big piece of it, of course, is that I believe in it as a really powerful tool for schools. If I was just keeping a Web log to lament the state of the world, it would be different. Not that there is anything wrong with that, in fact I wish I had the time to do that. But this is more than just writing…
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