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- Before I GoAugust 28
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The Question
Dan Meyer recently asked me the question.
If anyone else was curious: yes, I am. Effective now.
If anyone is curious why, please get in touch. I'd be happy to chew the fat.
Shifting Priorities
Otherwise, it was just time. Life moves on. Priorities shift.
And certainly other voices are better suited for this state-of-education conversational game and have more valuable/timely things to contribute than I am able to do at this point in my life/career.
My Kids, My Students
Don't get me wrong. I still blog like crazy. It'll just be elsewhere.
But my days as an edu-blogger are now officially in the past tense.
All that previous "think:lab" blogging energy will now be dedicated 100% to my kiddo (and his bro/sis-to-be) and to my HS English students (each year):
- the "rabbits and cheshire cats" blog (desc: 3 sections of Hon Eng 10 focused primarily on Joseph Campbell's "hero journey" and a wide array of classic 'Brit lit' readings)
- the "pass the conch" blog (desc: 2 sections of 'regular' Eng 10 with the s
- Finally Shifting the NeedleAugust 18
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3 days: my students return from summer break as my 2nd year (back) begins.
7 months: my wife/son/I will welcome yet another member to our family.
Now: it's only appropriate that now is the time to finally re-align the needle.
Thank you: for the connections, the lessons, and the vision along the way.
Been truly humbling to have a front-row seat in this remarkable edu-convo.
Funny. Just another 7 days and it would have been three years to the day.
- Forget Puppies; He's Getting His Own QR Code!August 11
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Sunday post: "Fatherhood P.O.V."
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Making It Easy for Santa This Time
Thanks to a QR Code generator, my kid gets his very own QR code this 12/25.
Suppose that means he'll be stealing papa's cell phone for legit reasons now that he'll need it to confirm that this actually reads "Beckett Michael Long":
Can't Think of a Time I Haven't
To be honest, every single keynote conference presentation I've given that has centered on re-thinking the future of school design, I flashed a shot (or dozen) of public QR code displays (esp. in Asia)...
...followed by the phrase:
"Learning is Everywhere"
For most of my arch/edu clients/audiences, QR codes were new.
I had little to zero interest in looking at the actual technology behind these content-embedded phone-scanning
- Accessorizing One's Digital FootprintAugust 10
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Sunday post: "Fatherhood P.O.V."
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Fast and Furious Connections
Over the last 24 hours, I've been blessed with a fast and furious flurry of gracious messages coming in from all corners of my networked globe.
While I'm not at liberty to explain the backstory until this coming Wednesday morning -- when I'll go all blog-post-ga-ga over it -- suffice it to say that even after 4 years of blogging this loosely coordinated message avalanche struck me as almost stunning.
Looking His Way
Looking at my kiddo's horizon-bent gaze this afternoon at the pool...
...I began to sense that such a flurry of network messages will be the norm for him throughout his future. Real time feedback from all corners of the globe sparked instantaneously by real-time events/actions within his life.
Its all digitally connected. And its all digitally immediate.
For me, still amazing. For Beckett, just the only thing he'll ever know.
- Sabuda's Minimalist Half-BrotherAugust 10
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Sunday post: "Fatherhood P.O.V."
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Putting Some 3D Funk in His A, B, C's
Rummaging around the family couch for enough quarters or a loose double sawbuck to purchase a single copy of this alphabetic-wonder pop-up book:
Admission
OK. I admit it.
You can't take my Sabuda.
Esp. the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland copy that I have on the coffee table next to my couch in my classroom. That's got a bear trap around it.
