Since I am requiring all the members of our Digital Texts Learning Community to host a blog about their experiences in exploring K-12 digital textbooks for their academic content areas and grade bands, I decided I needed to revisit my blog. 

Our work as university teacher education faculty continues to become increasingly complex. Some days, I'm not sure exactly what priority to focus upon, as they seem to be at odds. For example, we have been asked to increase our class sizes (both online and face-to-face), reduce part time costs, not replace faculty lines of those resigning or retiring, increase enrollment,retain students, and acquire more grant funds. So I wonder, what is most important?

I am enjoying directing the Center of Excellence for 21st Century Educator Preparation, though. I have been given the opportunity to explore innovations such as digital texts and iPads in K-12 classrooms. The Interactive Whiteboard Olympics was awesome and watching the BGSU social studies sophomores implementing mobile technologies this semester is cool.  Guess I can't complain...