Day 2
Posted by mscronk on March 14, 2007
Well yesterday we got into the mechanics of blogging. It is my hope that most of you realized how easy posting can be. Essentially all you are doing is using a text editor and creating hyperlinks out to other sources. The important part of blogging is reading and thinking. It is that simple. For example on my blog last night I posted about reading David Warlick’s post on observing Will Richardson. I loved how Dave discussed Will being a “learner” and how he used his blog for learning.
For a long time I wanted to just learn for a living, I would come away from inservices and conferences inspired and I just wanted to hang on to that motiviation. It was that first workshop and keynote with Will that gave me the tools to educate myself. The first few months were very intimidating, I was launching my self into a well established network of people and felt inadequate and like there was nothing for me to contribute. Then I realized there were others just like me, back in September I posted about
“it” happening to me:
In her Blog Susan Sedro, offered great advice to another relatively new blogger (Kim Cofino) who was feeling overwhelmed. At first I read and re-read Susan’s post in Adventures in Educational Blogging. (She offers great advice on how to manage the implementation of blog curriculum) Then, I decided to take a look at the novice blogger she was referencing. After all, I am only a few days into this and feeling very unsure of myself in the blogosphere, another newbie would be great to commune with.
Kim-”For a while there I was feeling so far behind that I didn’t want to demonstrate my “late-adopter-ness” by posting things that everyone knows already.”Me- “Boy did I identify with that! Then she mentions how she found this post that made her realize that there were so many other teachers out there that felt the same way. When I followed the link …It was MY BLOG she was referencing! I got goose bumps, and then I think I “got” blogging”.
I know if you all continue to blog there will be a world of information and collaboration that will open up to you. Remember that EVERYONE starts at the beginning, the only way to learn about Web 2.0 technologies is to use them (and later to teach them). I would like you to follow all the links posted above and to read them. Susan’s Adventures in Educational Blogging is perfect for you. I love that her blog is designed to help you use this technology and she spells steps out for you.I would like you to leave a brief comment on this blog, and then post a new entry on your blog in regards to what you read here and on my most recent post. I will review them at the end of class.
-Jennifer
