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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.