Newbie

So now what? I’m not a “Newbie” anymore.

Well, folks, it’s time to lower the landing gear and bring this bad boy in for a landing.

This indeed will be the last post on the “Newbie” blog. I’m going to continue my work on the LG2G project, creating podcasts, producing video, writing articles, taking on challenges where I become a “Newbie” again….

But it’s time to let go of this lovely blog.

I’m so grateful to the people who’ve read the blog and especially to those of you who’ve taken the time to send in comments. It felt great to know you were out there. And I pretty much always learned something from what you had to say. Thank you so very much.

And I definitely encourage you to follow the progress of the Learning
Games to Go project, of which this blog is but a miniscule part. It really is an amazing initiative, and I think it’s going to have a huge impact in our classrooms.

It’s been a total blast writing this blog. Learning new stuff, as I’ve written many times, can be a very difficult process. The cool thing, though, is that we can actually steel ourselves against the potential embarrassments. We can learn to keep our eyes on the ball (or in my case, the cursor…) when we know in our guts that the risk of embarrassment is nothing… nothing that is, compared to what we might gain by taking on the adventure.

Learning new things can indeed be hard.

But not learning new things is a silent killer. It can deaden us without our even noticing it, especially as we get older and start to think we know everything we’ll ever need to know.

So have an adventure.

And thanks for coming along for the ride.