{"id":454,"date":"2015-04-11T00:57:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T04:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/?p=454"},"modified":"2015-04-30T06:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:40:49","slug":"aprilblogaday-meets-mtbos30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/2015\/04\/11\/aprilblogaday-meets-mtbos30\/","title":{"rendered":"#AprilBlogaday meets #MTBoS30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This marks the 5th post of my\u00a0#MTBoS30, which is continuous daily blogging that began with @crstn85 &#8216;s post on April 1st. \u00a0There seems to be a similar set of blogging taking place simultaneously using the #AprilBlogaday. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure whether or not these two things have ever been brought together. \u00a0Seems weird that these two events have yet to\u00a0have any kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=realtime&amp;q=%23AprilBlogaday%20%23mtbos30\">cross-promotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#AprilBlogaday seems like the bizzaro Seinfeld episode of the #MTBoS30. \u00a0It seems like it centers around a list of prompts that are updated reguarly on the #<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1Xd4vrPpL8TtXQarFIV3pEeS71ceWnCL9iRFEftJBjUQ\/edit#gid=0\">AprilBlogaday Google Sspreadsheet<\/a>\u00a0while #MTBoS30 keeps things open for bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>It looks to have been started by another person whose name starts with &#8216;Chris&#8217;. \u00a0Chris Crouch (@the_explicator) spread the word early in the month with a number of calls to action tweets like this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p>Have a teacher blog? Want to start one? Been a while since you\u2019ve written? Commit to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AprilblogaDay?src=hash\">#AprilblogaDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jV4mn1q3L9\">https:\/\/t.co\/jV4mn1q3L9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmicaKristy\">@AmicaKristy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Crouch (@the_explicator) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_explicator\/status\/582963070559002624\">March 31, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Blog writers coming from across the educational spectrum have been joining #AprilBlogaday, leading to a wide diversity of potential posts. \u00a0#MTBoS30 is focused on the awesomest of subject areas, and with that leads to more depth and focus on a certain topics.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, I think I will incorporate some of the #AprilBlogaday ideas into my blog. Given how often I am short on ideas for posts, I think I may use some of the #AprilBlogaday prompts with my posts, but I must\u00a0stop short of\u00a0committing to join that movement as\u00a0I am already knee deep in other people&#8217;s #MTBoS30 posts that I need to catch up on. Regardless of that, it is still inspiring and invigorating to see educators reflecting online. \u00a0Here is my first attempt at using an #AprilBlogaday prompt<\/p>\n<p>#AprilBlogaday Prompt 4\/1: \u00a0Are you where you thought you&#8217;d be?<\/p>\n<p>It is weird to look back at what I used to think. \u00a0At each\u00a0point in my past, I had dozens of thoughts about the future. \u00a0Most of those thoughts made were ridiculously off-base (like hoverboards), but looking back on it, I have traveled the road that I could have predicted. Past Carl would be pretty happy with my current job because, as a boy,\u00a0I always wanted to work in a big city and wear a tie to work every day. \u00a0When I <a title=\"Where I Tell An Embarrassing Story And Explain The Point Of This Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/2014\/04\/26\/where-i-tell-an-embarrassing-story-and-explain-this-blogs-purpose\/\">decided to pursue a teaching career<\/a>, it\u00a0was born from a desire to get better at something that was hard. \u00a0While I haven&#8217;t mastered it yet, I realize that I probably never will. \u00a0In reality, the opportunity to wake up each day and try\u00a0something new only to\u00a0go to bed each night thinking of tweaks that can still be made is a version of what I desired from this profession.<\/p>\n<p>Of course all my predictions have not come true. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t predict\u00a0I would still be teaching 5 years after getting an Administrators license. \u00a0After 10 years of teaching I predicted that\u00a0I could confidently and effortlessly teach any topic to any student, or domesticated animal. It is kind of sad to look think about why you aren&#8217;t where you &#8220;should&#8221; be. \u00a0These things may just be part of larger stories that are\u00a0playing out. The struggles with my career shortcomings may be valuable in what I learned. \u00a0My struggles with meeting girls in my teens (and\u00a0Twenties) made me quicker to realize how that\u00a0my girlfriend, now wife, is really special. \u00a0Perhaps\u00a0these career struggles will make push me to fight harder for things looming in the future.<\/p>\n<p>What is really important for where I am is closing doors on things that need to end. \u00a0I am glad to say that the time where I would not go to NCTM, not reach out to other math teachers, and otherwise hide in my classroom. \u00a0In fact, where I am now, I am disappointed that I am left alone to do what I please, as I instead wish for an environment where people are all collaboratively working together to grow and get better. \u00a0Right now, I am looking to quit a number of things that aren&#8217;t working to make me a better educator. \u00a0Hopefully this\u00a0whittling down process will be the most important action I take today to get me to where I want to be tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>5\/30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This marks the 5th post of my\u00a0#MTBoS30, which is continuous daily blogging that began with @crstn85 &#8216;s post on April 1st. \u00a0There seems to be a similar set of blogging taking place simultaneously using the #AprilBlogaday. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure whether or not these two things have ever been brought together. \u00a0Seems weird that these two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#AprilBlogaday meets #MTBoS30 #MTBoS","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[11],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xz6U-7k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}