The semester has begun–two weeks done already!? Anyway, I am once again making trouble by pushing at the limits of how to engage with ideas inside and outside of the classroom. I’m also pushing at the limits of what I, as the instructor, can manage in the semester. In a recent tweet, I wrote: “Is managing and writing on 4 blogs and 3 twitter accounts too much? Not sure yet.” I’m not too worried…yet. The beginning of the semester is always crazy as I adjust to new students, new classrooms and new assignments.
I plan to regularly revisit this question of taking on too much trouble throughout the semester. I think it is a really important one as I think about the limits and possibilities of social media in the classroom (which is a key theme for both classes). Here are the links to my course blogs:
Every year I increase my participation on the course blogs. More comments, more entries, and now, more tweets. But, will I be able to keep up with my own personal blogs? I really hope so!
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Uh oh. Scrolling through this blog (in the Judith Butler tag), I found another entry with almost this exact same title. On August 5, 2009 I wrote an entry titled, Can You Every Really Have Too Much Trouble?. Oh well. It was bound to happen.