Wizard of Creativity

I have been encourage enough to begin blogging again. The problem with blogging is that when you get involved in it, you want to read what everyone else is saying. I don't have time for that, if I am going to be reading anything in the next week it is going to be one of these:

• Allen, E. I., & Seaman, J. (2010). Learning on demand: Online education in the United States, 2009. Needham, MA: Sloan Consortium. Retrieved June 8, 2011, from http://www.sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/pdf/learningondemand.pdf


• Chopra , B. (August 2005). Intent Life [Blog]. Retrieved June 9, 2011, from http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2005/08/a_five_year_pla.html


• Seaman, J. (2009). Online learning as a strategic asset. Volume II: The paradox of faculty voices. Washington, DC: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. Retrieved June 8, 2011, from http://www.sloanconsortium.org/sites/default/files/APLU_online_strategic_asset_vol2-1.pdf


• Shattuck, J., Dubins, B., & Zilberman, D. (2011). MarylandOnline's Inter-Institutional Project to Train Higher Education Adjunct Faculty to Teach Online. International Review of Research in Open & Distance Learning, 12(2), 40-61. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.


• Smith Nash, S. (2005). Learning Objects, Learning Object Repositories,and Learning Theory: Preliminary Best Practices for Online Courses. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge & Learning Objects, 1217-228. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.


• Tipple, R. (2010). Effective leadership of online adjunct faculty. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 13(1). Retrieved June 8, 2011, from http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring131/tipple131.html


• Varvel, V. E., Jr. (2007). Master online teacher competencies. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 10(1). Retrieved June 8, 2011, from http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/spring101/varvel101.htm.

So, if I don't comment on your blog, know that I still care about you, but for two more years, I am reading something else.

I just got a phone call from Gladys Knight's secretary asking me what kind of help we needed for music at our Women's Conference to be held January 22nd. I was specifically asking for sheet music arrangements for hymns when I blithely sent an email to her from her webpage.

I audaciously asked if Gladys would like to come and sing and was kindly turned down due to time constraints.

I further asked that she put our conference on Gladys' calendar and perhaps a miracle would happen and she would come.

Isn't that a hoot? I have a contact phone number for Gladys Knight.

"And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them..."

See how simple that is?