Bud the Teacher

This is why I have a job. 

    Tonight, I am finishing up a piece of writing that my wife and I owe our editor.  It’s overdue — but we did have a baby a month ago.  That’s worth some extra time, right?  Our kind and generous editor thought so.
    Actually - - I can’t believe that my wife and I have this writing gig.  It’s perhaps the biggest professional honor that I could get. 
    And so instead of finishing up that piece, I’m writing a blog post here about how much writing for deadline freaks me out.  Figures.

Oh, dear.

    I’m tempted to say something snarky or otherwise clever — but what if they’re reading?
    Nice military computers. 
    See Spot run.  For his life.

    I am currently using a discussion board to connect some of my students with students at another school three hours or so away.  I love that we can "get together" via the Internet and talk about the books we’re reading and what’s going on in our lives.  I think the discussion board is good practice at communication. 
    But it’s not so user friendly sometimes.  Wouldn’t an RSS subscription to the blogs of all of the students involved in our online exchange be a much easier tool for students to use?  They would spend less time searching for comments and more time responding to those comments that interest them.  I know I’ve said this before, but thanks to Will Richardson, I can’t stop thinking about it.  Now if only I had time to catch up on the other great ideas at his blog.