Blogging Reflections

I've never explained or even tried to explain how this trip to Ireland and Germany goes together with last summer's trip to China and Nepal and why they are together in the same blog. Maybe they don't, but practical concerns take the fore: I have, or had, a "certain" readership and which it can be disconcerting to transfer. A new blog for every new topic? I've tried that too many times. I have abandoned educational technology blogs (or should we say they are dormant?) and created and used classroom blogs for teaching senior English (see http://collegethreshold.blogspot.com

and Chemistry and soon science fiction and sports literature. Too many blogs to successfully keep up with!

Another reason? I see my blogging divided into travel (this blog), educational technology for teachers, and classroom blogs for students. Travel is a broad category. PeaceCorpsNepal was created for a certain purpose, but I now mean to expand that purpose (rationalizing after the fact, of course), to travel anywhere and even "travel" to art museums in Los Angeles, my hometown. Travel might be seen as a metaphor for, what? Not work-related? Travel in the mind? Adventure? Outside my comfort zone? 

But how to retain readers if it becomes an online diary of thoughts I had, appointments I kept. Writing style, the habit of self-reflection and self-discovery, and being the vicarious envoy to experiences and places for some readers. I wish I could come up with a overarching theme as well, like 'brutal honesty' or 'teacher coming of age story' or 'American as Foreigner.' Alas! None work as a central lens. Perhaps my individual sensibility and perspective on things is all I can hope for. We'll see if that's enough.

I do vow here and now to post weekly at my educational blog site (either drforman.blogspot.com or drforman.wordpress.com, I have to choose one). And on twitter (see @drforman) I hope to announce those weekly posts to my small following of professional educators.