~~ Amazing Journey ~~

This academic year (Fall 2003 - Spring 2004) I am on hiatus from the classroom. So while I'm away from home, I'm working on launching a new feature for the "virtual notebook" (preserved from last semester to the left). Although I already provide a weblog, I've decided to work on an expanded version of it, something more detailed and instructive that will provide my students and the wider Internet audience with more focused units of study (for lack of a better, more engaging term!)... Periodically, a kind of cyber-centrifugal curiosity spins me out into the web or deep into the reaches of a library to hunt for knowledge, or to absorb an author, and I love to read. These journeys are joyous. But eventually a heavy kind of gravity, a nagging need to step back and think about it all, to distill and synthesize and bring it back to earth where it can be shared with other people overtakes me (teachers are a special breed, no doubt about it!). A weblog just doesn't cut it. Thus, the pages here, updated as often as I'm able.