I am a doctoral student in the School of Education at New Mexico State University. One requirement for the class Technology, Society, and Education is to create a blog. The first step in creating a blog is to come up with a name. While it sounds like an easy task, once I sat down at my computer it proved to be more challenging than I first predicted. I tried to think of a snappy title that described me or my interests. Nothing in came to mind. I questioned my creative nine-year old step-son asking him what I should name it, his response "Jeannette's Baguette"; when I further questioned why, he replied, "you really like bread, and it was the only word I could think of that rhymes with Jeannette". While he is correct - still not a good name for my blog.
I brainstormed many ideas related to education. One front runner for a name was 'the Pedagogue', but this word carries with it many connotations including dogmatic and formal. Neither of those are attractive to me. The next term I considered on my quest for a blog title was 'Andragogue.' It made sense because I teach adults. I was sharing my struggle to find 'the perfect name' for my blog with my husband; I told him I felt like I was naming a child. He asked what I had come up with so far. I shared the ideas of 'pedagogue' and 'andragogue' along with the suggestion of 'Jeannette's Baguette' and my husband says what about 'Jeannetteagogy' - your study of education. Brilliant. And so my blog 'Jeannetteagogy' was born.
