Okay, so this blog stalled a long time ago. I spent much time trying to figure out how it should look and exactly what I should be writing about. Unfortunately, I didn’t blog as I was doing that…which is the whole point of a blog!

So, here I am again, hesitant to “start”, because I’m too caught up with finding the perfect way to begin, or the most profound thing to say. I recently attended a very personally and professionally rewarding Web 2.0 conference in Philadelphia with Will Richardson, hosted by Chris Lehmann and the Science Leadership Academy. It was actually a recent post on Chris’s blog that gave me a little kick in the pants to quit stalling and blog.

At the conference, I discovered–either from Will, or from contributions of the other amazing teachers and bloggers in attendance, or from insightful conversations on the way to lunch or during down times–some incredible tools that are at our disposal as learners and teachers. I have a long list of “things to try” that I am just beginning to work my way through.

The part that has me even more overwhelmed is the questions that were raised in those conversations. This was not some group of tech geeks who were intoxicated by the new web tools, these were serious teachers with profound pedagogical questions about how to use these tools (or even if we should use them) to improve our own learning and to enhance student learning. These are the questions that baffle me at the moment.

No easy answers. No specific timeline or deadline within which I have to have all the answers. Just a whole lot of possibility and discovery ahead.

The piece of advice that seems to resonate the most with me from the conference is Will’s encouragement to “start small”. So, with that, I’ll close for now.

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