By Any Other Nerd

Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes Welcome! This blog post is part 1 in an ongoing conversation between myself and Stacey M. Johnson on her blog . Since we met a few months ago, we’ve been in an ongoing dialog about some of our favorite issues in teaching and educational technology. We decided to take the dialog public on our blogs. You can see her first post in the conversation here and she will be posting the next within a week or so of this post. I’ve very excited for this dialogue and public reflection. There’s some delightful, whimsical, and slightly risky in participating in a conversation like this. It’s the kind of thing you read about but not necessarily do. Shout out to Derek Bruff and his Take It or Leave It episode on his podcast, Intentional Teaching , that brought us into conversation!  In reading your post, I had a lot of thoughts and lots of “hmmmm” moments, which I think is part of why we started and continue our dialogue! Like you, I share concern and a distas

Estimated Reading Time: 15 minutes So it's that time again. For those tuning in, each year on my birthday, I do a bit of account and reflecting on the year.  This is year #8.  You can check out previous years below: 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Let's start with some of the miscellaneous details I've collected over the years here, shall we? Home :  Cranston, RI Relationship status :  Married (10+ years) Cats Owned :  2 (Bear and Pumpkin) Other Pets :  1 mud turtle (MJ, 38'ish years old) Degrees earned : 5 (3 masters, 1 bachelor, 1 associate) Degree working on :  PhD in Higher Education Credits Completed Toward Dissertation : 72 out of 72. Reading since September 13, 2023 : 320 (Latest reads can always be found on  Goodreads ) Work : Director of Faculty Development & Innovation at College Unbound (full-time)  Teaching courses at  North Shore Community College Consulting, Facilitator, Speaker Weight :  225 pounds  Longest Distance Run This Year :  7.5 miles Fastest Pace This