Starting what I hope is a habit - centralizing the logging of my my education learning adventures

I've had this blog for several years but never seem to have the time to make a post.  I scatter my thoughts, posting on Twitter as @sumware, on scoop.it, posts to LinkedIn and comments on blogs, and I maintaining several boards on PInterest. I bookmark lots of pages on diigo and share with several groups (including groups where my students share).  I am a slow writer (bad typist and worse speller).

It is time to have a focus and a place to consolidate my Internet adventures. So here is a "3 days before New Year's" Resolution.  I'll try to keep this blog up to date. (and interesting and fun)

I've made a wiki for UCC faculty to share their thoughts (bit.ly/UCCFac), but so far it is just me. This morning I updated the conferences page. There are lots of teaching and technology session happening this summer. I really enjoy going to these conferences and talking to other educators and learning all sort of new things. I have already been accept to present at Third Annual Tri-State Best Practices Conference: Collaborations and Connections Hosted by Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands on March 1, 2014.I  am on the program: Twitter Boosts Student Learning and Enables PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) for Professors.  Susan Mettlen and have a hat in the ring for 94th AACC Convention, April 5-8, 2014, in Washington, D.C. and for NJCCC Best Prac on April 25 at Mercer County Community College. 

Each term I make a wiki for each subject that I teach. Fall 2013 it was bit.ly/f13wiki for the CIS120 Internet class, what a fabulous group of students and bit.ly/F13CIS100.  Please click and see.  I am very proud of the work these students do.

This fall term it seems that I will be teaching 4 sections of CIS100, Introduction to Computer Applications (some Internet, Presentations with PowerPoint and Google Presentations,  Spreadsheet, Excel and Google spreadsheet, Access and Word and Google Docs), in Plainfield provided enough students enroll! Each student is required to make a Google site as a e-portfolio.  They can learn from each other because links to all the portfolios are on a pages of the class wiki (all students can and should be contributing - bit.ly/cis100s14.

So, as you can see, I am spread out. Perhaps this blog will help focus or perhaps I will make a new wiki or maybe just keep enhancing bit.ly/UCCFac.