On failed attempts at commenting.

I was so thrilled with the responses to my previous post that I immediately devoted myself to replying. And then the comment wouldn't post. So I tried several different approaches in order to make it work. And then I realized that it was never going to post no matter what I did. So I have decided to reply with a new blog post and to change the obviously broken mechanism which formerly controlled commenting. Pardon my dust as I work out some of the bugs with this new blog.

For future reference, my problems seem to stem from using Mozilla Firefox on my Mac. When I tried to comment using Safari it worked. Not sure why this is the case but, as I discuss in this post, I have adopted a new system that should hopefully prevent any futher issues.

Thank you all for your comments!

This post is significantly longer than 140 characters.

A fascinating vision for teaching a Chinese history class. An engaging video, reminiscent of "Did You Know," that explores the future of the Internet. An article I might have missed about the learning curve for search engines.

You say, "Great resources, Brock! You're probably the best friend I've ever had and you make excellent bean dip."

I say, "I am indebted to cburell, web20classroom, and tomwhitby for those resources. However, I do have a killer repertoire of bean dips."

I'm struggling to think of a gripping way to introduce the fact that I just listed people I am following on Twitter and that they are responsible for introducing me to those resources.

Actually, that statement establishes my point well enough. Now let me explain what my recent experiences with Twitter have led me to conclude: anyone with a connection to the Internet and the drive to become a truly great eduator needs to be on Twitter.

New Year's resolutions.

I usually try to avoid setting goals for the new year because it seems pretty silly. If I'm not doing something to improve myself already then why should the start of a new year be any different? To me, the new year usually just marks the beginning of another nine-month period in which I'll mislabel the date on everything I do.

But this new year is actually different because I have started a new stage in my life. In the past week, I've been reflecting on what has happened during the past few months of my burgeoning career as a teacher. Now I know that I just used a synonym for "flourishing" to describe my trajectory but that doesn't mean I'm happy with where I am as an educator.