{"id":259,"date":"2010-11-12T23:58:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T04:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adriennemichetti.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2010-11-12T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T04:59:09","slug":"this-time-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/this-time-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"This Time Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the thing:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write for a long <strong>time<\/strong>.*<\/p>\n<p>Since my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adriennemichetti.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/and-thats-a-wrap\/\">last post<\/a> (egads&#8211; scary how long it&#8217;s been), I have written 6 drafts. Yes, <em>6<\/em>. The most recent of those I did in May of this year, and it&#8217;s a doozy (stay tuned &#8212; it involves some post-reflection reflection &#8212; how&#8217;s that for getting meta?). But I haven&#8217;t published any of them. Why? I present to you&#8230; The Excuses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Because I&#8217;m not good at publishing without revision. (Should I be? is this a Web 2.0\/3.0\/21st c. skill I want?)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Because I didn&#8217;t have <strong>time<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Because I&#8217;ve been too busy. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Because I didn&#8217;t have anything to say. (Okay, that&#8217;s a lie &#8212; I always have plenty to say. Whether it&#8217;s of substance is another story.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Because family was visiting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Because the weather was nice and it&#8217;s more fun to be outside than inside writing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Because I moved my blog and it was complicated. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Because it&#8217;s easier to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/amichetti\">tweet<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Because I write or contribute to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.triplealearning.com\/category\/myp\/myp_lang_a\/\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/internalsummer.blogspot.com\">blogs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Because I have 340840198408 pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/pub?id=1Z81gdPaL2XgB4ODJJ31gwHzsJ0oaG0uq617qaPp-LLs\">reading to do<\/a> and this grad program does not leave enough time for decompression and reflection. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you decide which of those excuses are valid enough to be reasons.<\/p>\n<p>But now this <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23gradschoolalliance\">#gradschoolalliance<\/a> thing is up and running and between me, <a href=\"http:\/\/savasavasava.wordpress.com\/\">Sava<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/onepercentyellow.wordpress.com\/\">Leslie<\/a>, I&#8217;m the last one who is posting. Me! ME! Me&#8230; whom many of my colleagues (former and present) know as She Who Promoteth Blogging the Mostest.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true. I think blogging is da bomb. So much so that I (along with an NYU colleague who is nowhere on the interwebs for me to link to, ironically) designed an online collaborative writing platform for &#8220;learning&#8221; writers called Beyond Blog.**<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the OTHER thing:<\/p>\n<p>Good writing takes <strong>time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At least for me it does. This very post that you&#8217;re reading right now (you&#8217;re still reading, right?) began as a bunch of notes on a page that grew from:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>watching a recorded webinar on <a href=\"http:\/\/info.newsgator.com\/03-02-10CommunityBestPractices--AirForceWebinar.html?LeadSource=archive\">Community Best Practices in the U.S. Air Force<\/a>, and being awed at how spot-on it was in terms of leveraging social learning for developing a community of professional learners. (For real: why does the U.S. Air Force have well-connected, pedagogically-driven educators but the U.S. school system is so broken? What is wrong with this picture?)<\/li>\n<li>reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/canadianaeh\/5171139958\/\">my notes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>reading some <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/buqkNw\">Wenger, White, and Smith<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>participating last-minute in an Elluminate session with <a href=\"http:\/\/injenuity.com\">Jen<\/a>, which I was unprepared for but still psyched, and from which I felt more like a lurker (ironically, which I openly criticized) than a participant.<\/li>\n<li>reading my notes again and realizing I wasn&#8217;t following my own advice.<\/li>\n<li>zeroing in on THIS:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a title=\"Zeroing in by CanadianAEh, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/canadianaeh\/5171144890\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4145\/5171144890_ce4583c9e3.jpg\" alt=\"Zeroing in\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Don&#8217;t you hate it when you&#8217;re your own best teacher? It occurred to me that by not blogging, I was not participating fully.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s when I realized the OTHER OTHER thing:<\/p>\n<p>I had taken all this <strong>time<\/strong> developing notes for a part of my thesis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and I now had something to write about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back.<\/p>\n<p>(not in black)<\/p>\n<p>Hold me to it, please.***<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>*Don&#8217;t go stealing our ideas, now. I&#8217;ve got a prototype, even. Pshaw!<\/p>\n<p>**It&#8217;s not like I haven&#8217;t written anything, btw. What do you think I am, a total slacker? There&#8217;s been this thing called g-r-a-d s-c-h-o-o-l. Would you like to read my article annotations? Yeah, that&#8217;s what I thought.<\/p>\n<p>***Gently. 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