Terry of I See Invisible People bequeathed upon me a Thinking Blogger Award. Thanks, Terry!
Besides Terry, (whose blog I read daily) here are five more awards of my own given out to those people whose provocative insights have deeply affected my perspective and challenged my thinking. They’re worth a read, and truly deserve a Thinking Blog Award.
Well, we’re all here at East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools EARCOS 2007 ETC: the EARCOS teachers' conference where 1,700 of us in Bangkok, Thailand. Teachers at international schools from all over Asia have gathered to be inspired, share our ideas, and network. With keynote speakers such as Ian Jukes, Jean-Francois Rischard, and Dr. Mechai Viravaidya
I’ve truly been inspired!
(That’s me on stage, introducing one of the speakers.)
There are some great teacher blogs out there that are written by international teachers. Check out Jeff Utecht's The Thinking Stick. He gave a fantastic presentation on how to get started with podcasts, which inspired me to get my kids to use podcasts for their upcoming poetry unit. Another one worth checking out is Doug Johnson's "The Blue Skunk Blog".
Remember the birthday? Remember the 6,000th hit? Well, sometime last night, Shamash Says got its 20,000th page view. But the numbers aren't so important anymore. The bloggers are. The connections are.
Over at Lifestylism, Jeremy discusses the balanced life.
Over at The Voices from the Mountain, I get to keep up-to-date with LamaMamaJama, who just started her permaculture-building-family blog this week. (Welcome, sister!:-) Then, Expat accepted a new teaching position over at Expat Nomad, And best of all? Over at think:lab I discover that the writing of my students inspires someone else (other than me!) 10,000 miles away. (That post brought tears to my eyes!) And then, as always, there is the consistant, delicious marriage of visual imagery and insightful content over at Moon River.
So here's to connections, and to so many of you out there whom I've never met. Your writing has influenced my life.
This week, "Shamash Says" turned one year old. There was no candle on a cake, but instead a 
birth: to twins! Shamash stayed up till the wee hours of the morning creating two sister professional blogs, and they have all their fingers and toes.
"Shamash Says" began as an experiment to see if a non-tech-geek English teacher could maintain a personal blog. A year ago, Shamash barely knew what the word “blog” meant, yet alone how to act on one. So she entered the blogosphere a bit naïve, and completely unprepared for how blogging would revolutionize her life.
To this day, Shamash knows the names and faces of but two friends who blog. The rest: she met in the blogosphere.
Here’s what happened this past year.
Seems the University of Wisconson Whitewater found one of my blog entries worthy of posting at their 
site. Check out the September 20th entry: "Is an Academic Blog 'Scholarly'?". What a nice Saturday-morning-over-coffee-surprise to see a link to my blog, especially since I spent a lot of time researching my claim.
-This might be especially interesting to my COHORTS who had to listen to my rant! ;-)
"Five years from now, professors won't need to be convinced that some academic blogs can be considered scholarly sources. And in ten years? Educators won't be relying solely on university libraries to find an article that has been peer reviewed. By then, the educational academia will have caught up with the professionals who work in law, politics, and journalism."
