Instead, I've decided to pull all my posts into a single blog, called, "Thinking Space". Basically I had a blog that I started almost two years ago to be a place of reflection for being and becoming a dad. I also had a separate space blog that was to reflect some of my ideas and musings on technology, and then I had another blog that was intended to be dedicated to reflections on technology and it's impact on education. Well, trying to remember which one was which was just way to complicated. So, I've decided that instead, I'll use Blogger's great Labels (tag) tool and I'll just tag them appropriately. This way I can post whichever or whatever type of content I want to, and it doesn't matter.
I really believe that reflecting on your thinking about whatever topic, is important to retaining memory of the topic - and if necessary to be able to interact with the knowledge or information and I really wish I reflected more often. Just writing this actually makes me remember the research I did in grad school on meta-cognition and how fascinated I was by not only doing the research but what it could mean to my own professional practice. I was I often find myself wishing I could do audible blogs, and sometimes, I do just that, but basically it looks like someone walking down the street talking to himself. Really - it's just me thinking out loud - my brain using my mouth to make sound to try and better organized and understand the stuff that's in my brain - does that make sense?
So I have this blog now, and I hope I can be better at reflecting here on all manner of topics - a sort of thinking space.
Now to be sure, thinking space is a term that actually has more history than just a name for this blog, it goes back to before I married Becky. From time to time, as young couples do, we would get into a conversation that would lead to an intense discussion and then boil over into confusion, misunderstanding and a refusal to speak any further. We had a break down in communication. So to resolve the matter, we came up with this idea called "thinking space", - it was the simple opportunity to share whatever was on our mind or heart - but that it was merely a sandbox - a place to put ideas to think about - not make a decision on. That one decision led to a lot better discussion and interaction, and that is what I want this space to be. A thinking space. A place I generally use to reflect on many of the different aspects of my life. It can allow me to document my thinking process, and help me better reflect, so I can learn from and develop my thinking.
As a side note, in looking for some image to represent thinking space I came across this page at The Economist - not a magazine I typically read at all, that captured many other individuals thinking spaces, visually, and represented them in a rather interesting way.
