On Tuesday I had the distinct honor of chatting with @thenerdyteacher on The Nerdy Cast. Nick and I have been buds for years, working on various projects together, talking education and pop culture. You can listen to our whole Nerdy Cast chat which includes our humble adventures in blogging, starting Project PLN , starting a school and my newest project, The Learning Genome.
I am totally falling down on the job. The new issue of Project PLN came out a week ago (two weeks?) and I am just now getting around to posting about it. Fail. It is a good thing @thenerdyteacher and I decided to go bimonthly on it.
This month Nick and I shared some of our favorite educational blogs. Of course our lists could have gone on and on (kind of like my Google Reader feeds), but we managed to narrow it down into a reasonable number. Nick introduced me to a few new blogs I wasn’t following and I’m happy to say I’ve increased the number of feeds I subscribe to to include them. Worth the extra reading time! I hope that some of these awesome bloggers are new to you and that they encourage you and inspire you. They certainly do that for us!
We started out as an every monthly e-zine dedicated to sharing great stories from our PLN with he world around us. After a year, the time constraints of running a monthly magazine took its toll on us as we tackled new challenges and built new schools. We had hoped to move to an every other month format still wanting to bring stories to everyone out there looking for educational inspiration. After some long breaks and deep discussions, we have finally decided that quality is much more preferred over quantity. Below you will find our new schedule effective this year.
The thought of stopping Project PLN was never really an option for us because we just love sharing too much and we want to give others the chance to share with everyone as well. Although we are the editors of Project PLN, we feel this is everyone’s magazine. We are excited to move into a more structured format to all of our readers a chance to submit their ideas and see the thoughts on their PLN here.
We might just make another creepy video for old time’s sake.
Thanks again for all of the support over the past couple of years. We hope you stick around for the new changes.
-Nick and Kelly
Editors – Project PLN
Publication schedule for a year:
Call for Articles: June
Issue 1: August –
Call for Articles: August
Issue 2: November
Call for Articles: November
Issue 3: February
Call for Articles: February
Issue 4: May
In other Nerdy Teacher News, @thenerdyteacher and @tgwynn have a new project: The Nerdy Cast. How those boys have time for this, I will never know! I will say, that I will happily sit on the receiving end of their genius.