I'm sorry for the lack of posts, yet again. But we did just have winter break. A few new things happening (because I like lists):

- A New Year's Resolution to run 1000 miles incorporating at least one one-mile run per day.
     I've also created a Facebook page to help motivate runners that want to compete in a challenge like this.

- The start of a weekly Twitter chat (#IARunChat)  (#RunIowa) on Monday's at 8pm CST. (I know, right)

- Next week I'll start another grad class: Informational Design. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities for this class (and yes, I'll do my best to update here). I do a lot of design for my journalism classes as a teacher, but I've never been formally taught anything.

- The second half of our school year already has 1 snow day...  excited now, I won't be on March 5.

- A redesign of my class website (before I took the Info Design class, it was a risk, but it was needed).

And right now, I feel my wife may be right - I could be thinning myself out a bit much with different things, but I feel good about it.

Anyway - until next time... have a good run (very prophetic).

Well, I haven't been ignoring the blog without good reason. I promise. I imagined this as a weekly (or bi-weekly) opportunity to get my thoughts and consternations out there. It is truly amazing the parallel that I have between this blog and my running. Between teaching, advising, being a grad student, and life, I am now able to take five minutes and update the world of my awesomeness... journey.

Grad Class:
I am currently enrolled in Introduction to Research. I now officially know what a student goes through when they are not engaged. This is rough. I think what we are doing at the secondary level should be applied to this class. I'm a grown man and I don't feel the need to have a 200 page .pdf read to me with the random comment, "oh this would be good on the final" as the only thing to keep me awake (night class).

James Franco does it...

Teaching/ModelTech:
I am still a member of the ModelTech team at TJ (#cbmodeltech hashtag on twitter). I really like the think tank of ideas from this group, and I think we are definitely doing good (superheros maybe?).

We will also be implementing an idea from the group this next week. Our building is going to allow the model tech team to open our doors up to all teachers (I am open Tuesday with another teacher) for questions/ideas/problems as they relate to tech in the classroom. We are no means the authority, but teachers are at different levels of competency with tech, and comfort with the "tech lab," so we can help solve a problem, or add to ideas.

The idea came from a couple of teachers from the ModelTech team and we have adopted the idea.

Running:
Um - well. My wife and I are still on track to complete one race (at least) per month for the year 2012. We did a 5k this past Sunday morning and shortly after my wife got ill, and I got really sore! I need to run more than once a month ...

... and I need to blog more as well.

So there you go. Hopefully I can elaborate more on the ModelTech and Grad school later!