Defenseload: Moving to New Digital Challenges

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Moving to New Digital Challenges

This may come as a surprise to many of my readers, but today is the first day in almost 25 years that I wont be in a brick and mortar classroom. It was a bittersweet last two days with my students as I have an amazing bunch of kids (two classes of which are above), but was offered a great job to head up my countys online campus. I am excited about the transformation to a new setting as I love learning new things and meeting new people, but saying goodbye to my students and fellow teachers wasnt easy.

So what does that mean for this blog? I will continue to post, but the daily posts will be led by

Jeff Feinstein who teaches nearby at West Potomac High School will take over the blogging on a regular basis for the US History and US Government Teachers blog, but since I am going to teach that subject online for the rest of the school year I will continue on that blog as well.
George Coe, whose work many of you know will take control of the World History Teachers blog
Rich Hoppock will be blogging on the US government, economics and US history sites
Summer Johnson who is a special ed teacher and will be adding a new twist to the US Government blog

My new position is officially titled "eLearning Coordinator" so guess what - I have started a blog called appropriately enough the "eLearning Blog." It will be useful to both my online and brick and mortar friends as you can see from the early posts. But as with my other blogs, it will grow as I do in my new job and I hope you will want to stay around and learn.

What this also means is that I am looking for people to join us on all four of the content blogs as Id like to open this to regular posters who are committed to posting 3x weekly on pedagogy, content and technology. What I am not looking for is someone who wants to vent. My focus (I hope) has always been on the positive and I would like to continue in that vein. If you are interested in talking to me, Id need a few potential posts and then Id be happy to give qualified people a trial period to see how it works for you and us. Email me at kenhalla@gmail.com if you are interested.

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