Trying to find a niche
You may notice that I haven’t posted for awhile. I think its becuase I can’t figure out what I want to do with this space. Everything that I want to do is already being done better by other people.
- I don’t want to post a list of links, unless its ones I find helpful and useful (meaning that my classes have directly benefited)
- No one wants to read about my feelings and struggles as I teach.
- Dan Meyer already does the tech savvy but slightly sarcastic questioning of the sacred cows better than I could.
- I don’t find pictures of dogs and cats really interesting.
Well, give me a few weeks, school will end and I can try again.
June 14th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
If you’re trying, like Dan Meyer, to contribute lots of original stuff, steer online conversation, and create a hub where math teachers meet, then maybe, maybe, there’s no point in posting for a while.
If you, like most of us, more modestly realize that writing helps you think more clearly yourself even if the audience may be more theoretical than real, that it’s okay to write at least as much for your own sake as for anyone else’s, that airing mundane matters of day-to-day math instruction might be of interest to other math teachers in just the way their airing of trivialities sometimes interests you because you’re preoccupied with the same little things – then it becomes more manageable.
It’s true that “Everything that I want to do is already being done better by other people.” Including living and breathing.
OK, enough of this homily. Sorry… I think that was a little for myself, too, even in a comment on a stranger’s blog. Just found this site through your comment at mine, and while I won’t be reading every entry about every tech app that everybody else seems to know about… I’m subscribing.