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Welcome to my blog on education! The general purpose of this space will be to serve as a space where I'll be ruminating on different aspects of teaching. One particularly important issue I like to look at is how we can use technology in the classroom. I recognize that there are lots of new media emerging that the current generation of students feel particularly connected to, and since any piece of knowledge best serves the learner when it can be made relevant there are some great opportunities for reaching today's students through these media.





You may be wondering what I was thinking when I decided to title this blog "My Life is Bacon." What does that have to do with education? Well, the short answer is that while I'm interested in education generally, my focus is in English and language arts. There are some powerful things that can be done with language, and metaphor pops up as one of the most effective phenomena. So when I say that My Life is Bacon, I'm trying to elicit thoughts of excellently tasty home cooking and crispy, greasy goodness which only bacon delivers upon. The image says that my life is pretty good, though it's definitely a little fatty in places. All in all, My Life is Bacon should indicate that I'm pretty good natured and I love a little bit of silly humor, which I think you need if you plan on being a teacher.

The long answer involves some friends and a lot of strange inside jokes which probably fall into the "you had to be there" category of humor.



So again, welcome, and enjoy!