…read all over?

I have been tagged by Richard Byrne -  http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2008/12/seven-things.html – for a meme that’s been going around. I am tasked with listing seven things about myself that people may not be likely to know that, at the same time, would help my PLN to know me better. Here you are:

1. I tried four times to write novels. I was able to get up to 173 pages of the first draft on one of them.

2. I started college as a biology major.

3. I was a widower when Jan and were married.

4. I am the oldest of nine children: six boys and three girls. I am 18 years older than my youngest sib and 17 years younger than my mom.

5. I have been in one labor union or another for thirty years.

6. My favorite color is green. (I am relieved not to start one of these with ‘I’.)

7. I was a semi-pro first baseman for a while.

I’m tagging:

@amycordova

@jjohnson

@kmulford

@kcaise

@kobus

@skytrystsjoy

@beil

I have a new organism for Professional Development – my Personal Learning Network. Based in in Plurk.com and, on balance, in Twitter.com and in Google Reader, it is more rewarding and as demanding as any experience I have in memory. I have decided that I need to reckon my time and reckon whether the attention that’s required is sustainable for me. I can compare it to either the time that teaching a course demands or the time required daily and weekly in the online Master’s I completed lately. Does this seem reasonable?

I fear that if I don’t strike a balance, all my living, learning, and teaching will end up being dust in the wind.