Professor Sharon

Today I was at a conference at Umass Boston, with my trusty new touch iPod in hand with hopes that I could blog, check emails, etc. while in attendance.  Did any of those happen?  Just one – one little email.    Was it my iPod? NO.   Was it me?  MAYBE   Was it the frustration of technology?  YES!!

I am aware that I am woefully behind with posting to my blog.  Most of it has had to do with wondering what to write about, and who the hell cares anyway?  My trusty hubbie and daughter tell me often after I’ve expressed an opinion or told a story:  you should write about that.  I compose it in my head — get exhausted from tons of other responsibilities (by the way, I think we 50 somethings work much longer hours than ever!), and then forget the wonderful piece anyways.

I was really excited to write today; because I thought it would be totally cool to be blogging from a conference called:  “Innovation lab:  The College Ready New England Annual Conference hosted by the New England Board of Higher Education.  The key note speaker was Steve Hargadon, who had invited several others to join him virtually.  And, apparently, at the last minute he couldn’t get to the conference, so the whole thing was virtual — it was really quite cool.  (Even if connections were lost, mics didn’t work, etc. at times).   The second half of the keynote was done by Brian A. Reich — really fascinating — apparently he’d been twittering the whole time he was actually speaking aloud to us!

But could I blog?  NO!  Frustrating….

So am I ahead of this technology curve with my iPod and my blog?  Or just behind really understanding what was wrong with the wifi (the campus guest wifi kept making me sign-in; thus if I took more than 30 seconds to type something; I had to sign in again and thus my saving even got lost….)  Do I compose nicely before posting?  Or just say anything coming to mind?

Ahead, behind, or what?  (For now, I’m tired and going to go get between the sheets — I’ll put some links in here tomorrow:)!