{"id":190,"date":"2008-07-25T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=190"},"modified":"2020-07-25T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:00:47","slug":"thinking-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Out Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of my best writing is in response to other people’s blogs. I must get in the habit of turning my comments on other people’s blogs into articles of my own. Here is an attempt at doing so…<\/p>\n

A recent Will Richardson blog hipped me to a teacher named Dan Meyer<\/a> who videoblogs. <\/p>\n

Does this guy have a crew? I can’t find the time or bandwidth to point a tripod at my keynotes. If I do, I can’t find the time to edit the video and put it online. People ask me if every one of my sessions will be uStreamed. I use my computer for presentations and unless I want to publish a surveillance video, I can’t control the camera while I’m presenting either. <\/p>\n

Keeping my content current, amusing and maintaining a sense of narrative is difficult enough. I’m not Al Franken reporting for Weekend Update from his One Man Mobile Uplink.<\/p>\n

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I marvel at the output of people like Meyer, but am not sure that I find the content particularly compelling. Questions such as the following pop into mind: <\/p>\n

\u2022 Who is HIS audience?
\u2022 Why should we care about his day?
\u2022 Is the content interesting or the production values enviable? etc…<\/p>\n

I’m grappling with another problem that may be related, but is causing me mental paralysis. I have too much I want to say, write and blog. This leaves me obsessing about what to do first and I don’t get around to doing any of it.<\/p>\n

I also face the questions of:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Who is MY audience? <\/p>\n

\u2022 Why should people care what I think?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shouldn’t I spend my time writing my book or magazine articles?
Isn’t writing a book a lousy return on investment?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Why won’t magazine editors leave my jokes and personal “voice” in my articles?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Will I be “the mean guy” because I don’t follow the herd?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Why don’t people understand that just because I debunk the shoulder-deep BS in edtech that I am an unapologetic advocate for its (largely unrealized) potential and that I get up every day to make the world a better place for kids?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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