{"id":1840,"date":"2010-10-07T05:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2010-10-07T05:36:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:36:51","slug":"catching-up-with-catholic-school-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/catching-up-with-catholic-school-bloggers","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With Catholic School Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1847\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicdomainpictures.net\/view-image.php?image=3643&amp;picture=daddy-im-beat\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1847\" title=\"cat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cat-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"I'm Beat!\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cat-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cat.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daddy I&#39;m Beat by Shari Weinsheimer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Is it just me or has life been a bit hectic lately? Between installing new office computers, tutoring struggling students, planning lessons, grading papers, and trying to keep up with blog posts, I&#8217;m barely treading water. But that&#8217;s what makes life worth living, right? Throwing yourself into a vocation that really matters, and doing the best you can.<\/p>\n<p>If your life has been as busy as mine, you might have gotten behind in reading some of the great new blog posts from Catholic educators and catechists. Here&#8217;s what you might have missed over the past ten days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jared Dees shares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereligionteacher.com\/rosary-activities\/\">over twenty rosary activities<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ann Lusch ponders <a href=\"http:\/\/luschblog3.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/another-sunday.html\">another Sunday<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Zalenka writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/icscatholicedu.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/intelligent-backward-design.html\">beginning with the end in mind<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Adam Fairholm discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicschoolwebdesign.com\/social-media-strategy-allow-for-control\/\">handing some control over to parents and alumni<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>TJ Agostino contemplates <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicschooladvocate.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/22\/waiting-for-superman-and-catholic-schools\/\">the implications of the film <em>Waiting for Superman<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Adam Thompson <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicteacherman.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/living-hamlet.html\">connects personal tragedy to <em>Hamlet<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Laura <a href=\"http:\/\/teachermuse.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/my-sisters-nephew.html\">grieves for a fallen hero<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ed Allen challenges us to <a href=\"http:\/\/imagineteach.edublogs.org\/2010\/10\/05\/look-for-the-good\/\">look for the good<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ann Oro muses on <a href=\"http:\/\/njtechteacher.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/social-media-benefits.html\">the benefits of social media<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Karen McMillan (aka McTeach) plays with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notesfrommcteach.com\/2010\/09\/flip-cameras-in-classroom.html\">the Flip camera<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Roy Petitfils asks if you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthwallah.com\/2010\/09\/are-you-making-the-most-of-our-face-time-with-youth.html\">making the most of &#8220;face-time&#8221; with youth<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>William Brannick is humbled by <a href=\"http:\/\/constantlearner.edublogs.org\/2010\/09\/26\/from-concept-to-reality-a-very-humbling-journey\/\">his experience starting a new Web 2.0 class<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mike St. Pierre reflects on <a href=\"http:\/\/mikestpierre.com\/?p=1626\">what he&#8217;s learned from three weeks of prayer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Sullivan comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanfsullivan.com\/2010\/09\/the-spiritual-role-of-the-principal\/\">the spiritual role of the principal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Marc Cardaronella exhorts us to <a href=\"http:\/\/marccardaronella.com\/2010\/10\/04\/preach-the-gospel-always-period\/\">preach the gospel always&#8230;period<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or has life been a bit hectic lately? Between installing new office computers, tutoring struggling students, planning lessons, grading papers, and trying to keep up with blog posts, I&#8217;m barely treading water. But that&#8217;s what makes life worth living, right? Throwing yourself into a vocation that really matters, and doing the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/catching-up-with-catholic-school-bloggers\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching Up With Catholic School Bloggers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-tG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2450,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/12-of-my-favorites-in-catholic-media","url_meta":{"origin":1840,"position":0},"title":"12 of My Favorites in Catholic Media","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"March 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Sitting at home sick today I discovered--thanks to tweets by Barb Gilman and Nancy Caraminico--that it was Catholic Media Promotion Day. 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