Iconlogic.blogs.com Website Review

as i write this, i am sitting at home looking out at a storm that has paralyzed commerce up and down the east coast. i’m making no money. that is because an in-person clas* i had scheduled for today had to be cancelled. it was postponed until next year. had i been scheduled for an online course, i would be working, and getting paid, today.   i’ve been in the training industry for more than 20 years, and at this point i am making most of my income by teaching online. when i have to go onsite to teach, i feel very put-upon: “you mean i have to get up before dawn? i have to get dressed in a suit? drive in the when i reflect upon it, i realize that these are strange words coming from an erstwhile hardened road warrior. i’ve taught all over this town (i’m in the washington, dc, area) and all over this country (i’ve been to 47 of the 50 states!). but now i most often teach from no, i do not teach in my pajamas. c’mon! i know you were thinking that! usually jeans and a nice shirt, if you must know. the nice shirt is just in case the we*cam comes on by accident. (one must at least be minimally presentable, after all.) so how did i first discover teaching online? to find the beginning of my online story, we have to go back almost to the turn of the century. no, not that century! the most recent turn of the century. here is the story of how i became one of the early adopters of online teaching. i was sitting in a manager’s office, because it was one of the few spaces offering some quiet in the busy clas*room building. participants in other clas*es were chatting in the hallway on their way to their morning break. i tested my headset to see whether that “can you hear the people talking in the hall?” i asked my online students. “no” “no”—a string of no’s scrolled quickly in the chat window. i was just beginning my first online clas* ever. it was the fall of 2001.  now before you think you can guess what happened next, let me tell you that the horrendous events of 911 had already taken place. and plane