Catch me at SITE

This week I'll be professionally goofing around with some good friends at the SITE Conference...Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education. I know, they left off a "T" in SITE. I'll be presenting a couple of times. My big presentation is about a project I lead called the Digital Historical Inquiry Project (dhip.org). Sounds kind of boring, but it's pretty cool. It's about preparing social studies teachers to use online primary sources with their students. The goal is to have students "do history" rather than learn about history.

My main contribution to the presentation will be my work with Web Inquiry Projects, or WIPs as I like to call them. WIPs are a teaching strategy teachers can use to use online resources to promote inquiry in the classroom. Hundreds of WIPs are created by pre-service teachers at SDSU each year. Examples can be seen at the WIP web site. I'll save a full-blown write-up on WIPs for another day.

If you're going to be at SITE, I hope to see you there.

Welcome to the blogging world

So even though it makes sense for a simple minded educational technology professor to venture into the blogging world, I have never been a big fan of making my views of the world public. When you do this you set yourself up to have half the world love you and the other half hate you. I sometimes wonder if I'm the only one getting a little sick of the two extreme views out there. To you Michael Moore loving liberals and Rush Limbaugh loving conservatives out there I have one thing to say, "Get a life!" The world is not always black and white...live in the gray a little bit.

I admit to being historically conservative (all you liberals now hate me), yet I find myself taking liberal stances on many topics (all you conservative now hate me). I guess since I straddle the fence the other possibilty is that everybody will like me. That's wishful thinking, I suppose.

Anyway, since this is my first post and nobody even knows that I have a blog, it's likely nobody will even read this. In case you do and you want to get to know me a little better, check out my portfolio at http://molebash.com.

Until next time...