thanks for not being a zombie

...for readers of Teaching Carnival are necessary, since teaching is often a very sensitive subject for professors, students, administrators, parents, and observers of higher education:

1. A blogger's online persona is often very different from her or his offline persona.
2. Those portions of a blogger's personal and professional life presented online are a narrow slice of the whole.
3. Rough ideas regarding teaching that are sketched out in blogs may come to fruition offline; the fully developed versions of those rough ideas may not be posted online.
4. Bloggers sometimes blow off steam on their blogs, but this does not mean they are constantly irritated or irritable offline.
5. Anonymous bloggers often, but not always, exhibit more freedom in venting about irritations than those who blog under their real name.
6. The practices of anonymous bloggers should not be conflated with the practices of those who blog under their real names.
7. One blog entry by itself does not accurately represent a blogger's personality.
8. Most teaching experiences are not blogged.
9. Most thoughts about teaching are not blogged.
10. Most academics do not blog, so a selection of blog entries on teaching in higher education cannot be used to draw any useful, general conclusions about teaching in higher education.