Tuesday, November 24, 2009

What's in a name?

The English professor I love knows far more about Shakespeare than I, but when I had to come up with a name for my new blog, I remembered these lines from Macbeth:

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

I teach communication at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. I'm lucky to have great students, and we really learn from each other. It's so much fun to watch these young men and women grow in knowledge and maturity over the months they are in my class. I share their joys and sorrows and try to nudge them along that long and winding road that they must travel to grow up.

We have spent the last four months working toward developing a new way to communicate with a redesigned online newspaper, The Pony Express Online. Our goal is to jump right into this new world of converging media without losing the character and history of a student newspaper that was established in 1948 when Panola College was founded.

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