Teach42

I think the title says it all.  It’s a very strange phenomenon.  One of my duties at Discovery is to read blogs, be aware of what’s going on in the edublogosphere and yes, to write blogs.  And yet, I seem to have less time to do it than ever.  Pretty weird.

Last year, I made it a priority to start every day doing my blogging.  I’d do a little reading, write a few, and use that as the way I’d get the day rolling.  No, it wasn’t part of my job, but it was my own personal professional development. 

At Discovery, even though it’s my job to do it, there are so many other things to work on that it seems like Blogs are moving towards the bottom of the priority list!  I mean, one reason (among many) that I haven’t had much time for blogging is that I’ve been spending quite a bit of time setting up, training and assisting all the DEN regional managers with their own blogs!  Ironic, eh?  However, they’ve really started to take off lately and people are posting some fantastic stuff.  So that’s definitely a very good thing. 

Not only that, but the new DiscoveryEducatorNetwork.com website is almost ready to be launched, which has been taking up a HUGE chunk of my time.  But once it’s live, it’ll really be a fantastic resource so I’m pretty darn excited about it.

Then you throw in about a hundred other projects, including one project that might possibly  tie directly in to one of the Discovery cable networks!  I mean, yeah I work for the company that owns the Discovery Channel, but its one thing to work for the same company, and quite another to have some real direct interaction with one of the TV shows.

Anyway, I didn’t mean for this to turn into a ‘where did all the time go?’ rant, but I just found it incredibly ironic that now that blogging and podcasting are actually part of my job, I seem to have less time to do it than ever!  Go figure, eh?  I’ve got nothing to complain about though.  On the contrary, I’m having the time of my life!

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