Jason Rhode, Ph.D.

Yes, that’s right, I’m starting another blog. If you’ve stumbled across this posting, you happen to be reading the very first posting of a brand new blog I am starting.  I have numerous other blogs already, such as my dissertation digest, idolresources, and even my personal site.  

Why another blog? I’ve found each and every blog to serve a distinct purpose.  I’ve been wanting a place where I can just ramble about anything related to education and connect with other educators on a more impersonal level. I’ve had an account over at Eduspaces for quite some time but with the recent instability of the ownership of that service, I wanted to move to another more stable host. I’ve linked this blog with my Eduspaces blog so anything I post here will also make its way over there. However, I’m all but abandoning Eduspaces at this point.

Also, idolresources has evolved into basically a place to post resources and I don’t want to diminish the quality or purpose of that blog.

So, here goes another blog.  This one happens to be hosted on Edublogs and therefore is a bit restricted in terms of features but is completely free for me to operate. I’ll continue to post to idolresources as well as maintain my more polished professional academic site at http://www.niu.edu/~jrhode but am looking forward to using this blog for my very informal online journal of my scholarly activities.

In the meantime, if you stumbled across my new blog, please leave a comment and say “hello.”