I use Twitter threads as a way of getting my thoughts down in a way that I didn’t think quite worked for my blog. That meant that over time the amount I posted to the blog went down a lot. I decided it might be a nice thing to move some of them over here to the blog, especially as I’ve moved the blog off the front page.
So, I’ll be setting that up over the next weeks, expect to see occasional things you’ve heard me say on twitter, but now redone as a post here.
All writing has an audience. That’s the point. Without a potential audience what you are doing is a pointless and fruitless exercise. Writing out your thoughts allows you to put them in a coherent order and reassess whether or not it says what you want it to say, and also whether or not it’s appropriate for the audience. Writing allows something as transient as a thought to be solidified into something that can exist and be passed on to others long after the original thought occurred. And writing allows a thought from a century ago influence a new thought which will influence other thoughts.
Tim St. John had an interesting post this morning. The part that’s getting a lot of shares on Twitter is:
“Our students and our academic colleagues do not care about your favorite icebreaker. They don’t care about what you think “professionalism” means. They care that you show up to work, do your job, and do your damn best for your students and your campus community.”
That is a great comment. But it then goes on to say
“When articles comment on the inflation of administration – they are talking about us! Yet, we are too busy talking about other things to notice. “
Um… actually I do. See here. or Here. Or honestly any article I post. I rarely talk solely about student affairs, because student affairs doesn’t exist in a vacuum.