180 & 360

The past week has been an interesting and busy one for me. But I don't know any teachers that aren't busy. And if I did, I would hate them. However, now that I think about it, one of my best friends is a gym teacher in New York City, and all he ever talks about is how easy his job is. I hate you Dave.

Anyway, I thought I would take this opportunity to remove my foot from my own mouth. In the discussion board for EDTC 621 (Using the Internet in Education) I stated how I thought the Bloglines web site was something that I would never use. I felt (and still feel, to an extent) that the whole blogging process can get very time consuming and complicated. I don't have time to sit there and read all the blogs on my feeds. CNN pumps a few dozen daily by itself. Of course I know that I don't HAVE to read through them all, just skim and see what I think is interesting. It still takes a lot of time though. If you look to the left, I count 166 (and if I had any sense I would have noticed that Bloglines tells you how many new articles there are and I wouldn't have added them up) new blog articles from when I last logged on yesterday. And I'm just getting started. I know there will be at least a dozen more feeds that I'll want to subscribe to by the time November rolls around.

With that being said, after I posted my opinion for Bloglines in the discussion forum, I immediately the next day found a great use for it. I ended up finding a sports writer from ESPN that was talking about the Michael Vick case from the standpoint of race relations. I had been looking for this for some time to use in my History of Sports class. So, my class and I will now be following the story as it unfolds, referring to Howard Bryant of ESPN; and Bloglines is helping to make it possible. So yes, I am doing an about-face on my position on Bloglines. It is useful!

On a personal note, Halo 3 was released three days ago on the 25th, and I still haven't played it! My fiancé bought it for me for my birthday (the 23rd), but I haven't had a chance to pick it up. Plus, I don't even own an XBox 360, which I need to play it. So, I have a sneaking suspicion that she bought it for me because she knew I couldn't play it! The control games and the psychological warfare, it never stops. And I really need to play it, so that I can make good on my promise to give the president of NJCU a beating in any Halo game of his choosing. I spent my lunch duty on Thursday talking to students about Halo 3. We're going to try to have a tournament in my school this year, and I want to participate. I'm gonna teach the kids yet another lesson. I may not have any hair, but I'm not old!