I’d known for quite some time and hadn’t really published it here. Most of my close friends knew already so this is not really any major news announcement, but news enough that I should share it. As of today I’m officially taking over hosting the North Florida DEN blog. I certainly hope I can do the previous owner justice, even though I doubt I can hold a candle. This added blog will not really change what I do here. I will share information just as I do here, but my opinions will flow more freely here. As it should be anyways.

I do have a bit of COOL news to pass along about the Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages site. When I started this blog I wasn’t sure how well it would do. Would I just be typing and putting stuff out there that no one is paying attention to? I have to say the coolest addition to the site has been my CLUSTRMAP. If you are running a site, this is the neatest little feature to add to show who’s paying attention to what you are saying. As of this weekend I added another continent to the list of where I’ve been read. Ya Ya. So what does this mean? It just proves that the world is smaller then what we think it is. It very much reminds me of the old maps of Florida I used to use to teach 4^th Grade Florida History (1562, Ptolemy 1492). One of the mantras I’ve been preaching to my students all year is that the world is much larger then the city of Bartow, FL that we live and learn within. Herein lies the power of blogging and the other web 2.0 applications that are out there. One of the many conversations I had over the past week was with Steve Hargadan of supportblogging.com. If you have never been to this wiki, and are working with your administrators to get approval to use blogging as a tool with your students I highly recommend a trip here to gather all the resources to help you in your fight. I’ve added this image with permission from Steve to this post and will shortly be adding it to the widgets for easy access by all!

Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages…

Tom.