Today marks my “official” launch for this blog, but as I’ve quickly learned, as soon as something is available on the internet, people will find it.
I already have links from people on del.icio.us and StumbleUpon, readers from MyBlogLog, followers on Twitter, and RSS subscribers. I’m glad you all have found me, and I hope you stick around, because there’s much more to come.
While you’re here, why not find out some more about me, get in touch with me, or browse the posts I’ve created already.
Update:
This is why I need to keep up a little better on my podcasts… it turns out, my blog was mentioned on the Ed Tech Talk radio show back on December 16th. Thanks guys!
Back in the blog’s early test posts, when it was picked up on the Ed Tech Talk radar, it was mostly link roundups and blog reviews (and trust me, those goodies will still continue!), but I’m planning some great feature-length posts tackling some topics in the field of Ed Tech. So stay tuned!
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So, I went back and made another lens on Squidoo. I actually think it’s a bit addicting.
The new one is “Getting Started with RSS” and contains a lot of good links and info for RSS beginners.
I was actually inspired to do this one from a presentation I gave on RSS at work earlier this year. If I can find my presentation notes, I’ll beef up the lens a bit more.
Let me know what you think of the lens! I’m still new to this whole Squidoo thing.
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I just started playing with Squidoo tonight, and I made my first “lens” - Designing for Usability.
(I also found a lot of other great lenses - this site is so much fun!)
Let me know what you think, either in the comments here or on the lens itself!
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I came across Steve Pavlina’s blog about personal development the other day, and started reading back through previous posts.
Reading one post in particular - about “Career Apathy”, or being at a point in a career or a job where literally, all sense of feeling is gone - I had some questions. I know people stuck in this kind of apathy, but I wanted to clear a few things up about the article.
Steve’s advice to people in this situation was to just walk away from the job - “to dump a job you don’t absolutely love is to give up nothing”.
Asking a question
My question was, what if this career-apathetic person is the sole provider for the family? How does one walk away from a job with no savings, and somehow continue to support a family?
Steve (and others) replied that hiding behind the need to support a family is just an excuse that holds people back. We bantered back and forth a bit longer, until I got tired of this seemingly lofty rhetoric with no practical answers. (You can read the whole thread here.)
After turning it over and over in my head for a few days, I realized what made me so angry about the whole exchange - I felt like I was being insulted for asking a question! I came to the forum asking for some specific details about the situation outlined in the post, and I was met with criticism and hostility. (I know many people take Steve’s advice as gold, so maybe I asked the question in the wrong place. Either way…)
Inquiry and education
I realized that this experience actually had a lot to do with education. I’m a very pragmatic person, and I like knowing everything that I can about a topic. But as someone trying to learn something new, feeling like I wasn’t being taken seriously hit me hard.
What if, growing up, every time you asked a teacher a question, they told you that you were “wasting your time”?
What if when you asked for proof of what they were saying, they told you that you had the wrong attitude?
What would education be like, if you were told to take everything that someone taught you at face value? And that asking questions was wrong?
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