Taylor the Teacher

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• 1 ken // Oct 1, 2007 at 9:28 pm

  I am so over-whelmed today.

  By over-whelmed, I mean perturbed.

  And once I think I get blogging, I see the picture included in your post, and now I’m back to confusion.

  Blogging = white male = Ken, but I have a tough time right now with making the logical leap, Blogging = Ken.

  It just doesn’t add up.

• 2 Taylor // Oct 1, 2007 at 9:52 pm

  Are you seriously considering not blogging? Or is this more philosophical?

• 3 ken // Oct 2, 2007 at 3:23 pm

  I will blog! As I stand upon this mountain of Intel Core-Duo Processors, I proclaim that I will blog.

  The whole thing is just so gosh-darn frustrating.

  I want teachers to blog. No. I want them to read a blog. That’s the big leap. Then, hopefully, they might think about blogging. Or, they’ll think about using blogs with their classes.

  I have a solid model of integrating blogs at our school that is currently being used by one of our teachers (I’m not in the mood to insert a manual hyperlink, but I’ll share over on my site).

  For me, blogging is beginning to look a lot like my time in high school; all cliques and Bloomingdales.

  Blogging is cathartic and one of those ‘inform my own instruction’ tools that I do believe broadens my understanding of technology and, better yet, the art of teaching.

  But I’m mired in this whole, ‘look! my blog is ranked in Technorati’ and ‘look! I trackback references to my name’. Why should this bother me?

  Why do people find it impt. to see their name in the blogiverse?

  Is my opinion, advice, or creativity any less impt. if the Warlick-Richardson-Lehmans of the world don’t recognize me? don’t add me to their blogroll?

  I think I know the answer: no.

  But for some reason, I’m all blogged and bothered by the whole thing.

• 4 Taylor // Oct 5, 2007 at 12:28 am

  I love the way you write! I was just re-reading and realized that I know who Warlick is through your blog, but I have no idea who Richardson or Lehmans are.

  To be honest, I don’t think much of most teacher bloggers. I think teaching is so intellectually draining that too many teachers stopped thinking long ago. So I guess I don’t feel that connected to the teacher blogosphere to feel the clique-ish pressure. I’m not closely connected with any particular faction, which makes me at the same time more free and more isolated. It’s a dilemma.

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