Comments on: Quest for a Better Blog http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/ Education, technology, and other geeky things Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:28:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sarah Stewart http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-53 Sarah Stewart Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:31:55 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-53 Hi Michelle, you are extremely welcome to join us - we're only a small group at the moment so welcome all comers. I am having great fun so far. <a href="http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2008/01/31-days-to-building-better-blog-day-2.html" rel="nofollow">Have added RSS and email feeds to my blog</a>, as well as a search facility. cheers Sarah Hi Michelle, you are extremely welcome to join us - we’re only a small group at the moment so welcome all comers.

I am having great fun so far. Have added RSS and email feeds to my blog, as well as a search facility. cheers Sarah

]]> By: Michelle Hudiburg http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-52 Michelle Hudiburg Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:37:09 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-52 Hello Kate! I don't know if you all are still accepting participants in this experience or not, but if you are I would really like to be included. I really appreciate your comment, "Equally important is my feeling that I can’t teach blogging without learning blogging. As just anyone in the world has the power to create a blog, I feel it’s my responsibility to go above and beyond to learn all that I can. My students (and colleagues learning from me in the professional development arena) deserve to have an educator who is dedicated to learning." I too feel that I need to know how to do the thing well myself before I can comfortably teach it. As an educational technology instructor, I would really like to improve my blogging expertise and become a more visible member of the "blogosphere." Hello Kate! I don’t know if you all are still accepting participants in this experience or not, but if you are I would really like to be included. I really appreciate your comment, “Equally important is my feeling that I can’t teach blogging without learning blogging. As just anyone in the world has the power to create a blog, I feel it’s my responsibility to go above and beyond to learn all that I can. My students (and colleagues learning from me in the professional development arena) deserve to have an educator who is dedicated to learning.” I too feel that I need to know how to do the thing well myself before I can comfortably teach it. As an educational technology instructor, I would really like to improve my blogging expertise and become a more visible member of the “blogosphere.”

]]> By: Sarah Stewart http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-44 Sarah Stewart Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:31:46 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-44 Andy Roberts is also joining us: http://distributedresearch.net/blog/ Andy Roberts is also joining us: http://distributedresearch.net/blog/

]]> By: Sarah Stewart http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-42 Sarah Stewart Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:13:45 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-42 Hi Kate, <a href="http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2008/01/31-days-to-building-better-blog-day-1.html" rel="nofollow">did my first activity for the 31 day challenge today</a>-pretty easy really. Hi Kate, did my first activity for the 31 day challenge today-pretty easy really.

]]> By: sarah stewart http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-41 sarah stewart Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:37:02 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-41 Hi Kate and Alison, I'm keen to do the 31 day challenge with you. Been wanting to do it for a while but wanted to find someone to 'play' with. cheers Sarah Hi Kate and Alison, I’m keen to do the 31 day challenge with you. Been wanting to do it for a while but wanted to find someone to ‘play’ with. cheers Sarah

]]> By: mrsolson http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-40 mrsolson Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:29:03 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-40 Sue - Glad you got to see your name here :-) You've been an immense help to me in the time that we've been working together and I look forward to reading your post on your experience with the project. Allison - Looks like I'm already following you on twitter! If you haven't already done so, think about joining in the challenge with me. I'd love some more support! I'll be adding your blog to my google reader! Kate Sue -

Glad you got to see your name here :-) You’ve been an immense help to me in the time that we’ve been working together and I look forward to reading your post on your experience with the project.

Allison -

Looks like I’m already following you on twitter! If you haven’t already done so, think about joining in the challenge with me. I’d love some more support! I’ll be adding your blog to my google reader!

Kate

]]> By: Allison Miller http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-38 Allison Miller Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:52:10 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-38 Hi Kate I'm really enjoying your blog since first discovering it only recently - reading your '1 week of Blogging - Lessons Learned' post. I can really relate to some of your pointers, and it's honesty certainly made me grin. I'd also like to recognise Sue Waters (http://twitter.com/dswaters) for the one on one blog mentoring she offered me last Sunday Morning too, via Twitter when I tweeted: "First realisation of the day: Blogging is not for the faint hearted" Sue took the time to find out why I tweeted this comment - and helped me think through why I was feeling so frustrated with the blog post I was trying to develop. Sue is a great role model of how to operate in a social network - always be willing to help others and share. She's certainly an inspiration to me - and many others. Looking forward to your next posting. Allison Miller Adelaide, Australia http://twitter.com/theother66 Hi Kate

I’m really enjoying your blog since first discovering it only recently - reading your ‘1 week of Blogging - Lessons Learned’ post.

I can really relate to some of your pointers, and it’s honesty certainly made me grin.

I’d also like to recognise Sue Waters (http://twitter.com/dswaters) for the one on one blog mentoring she offered me last Sunday Morning too, via Twitter when I tweeted:

“First realisation of the day: Blogging is not for the faint hearted”

Sue took the time to find out why I tweeted this comment - and helped me think through why I was feeling so frustrated with the blog post I was trying to develop.

Sue is a great role model of how to operate in a social network - always be willing to help others and share. She’s certainly an inspiration to me - and many others.

Looking forward to your next posting.

Allison Miller
Adelaide, Australia
http://twitter.com/theother66

]]> By: Sue Waters http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-37 Sue Waters Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:50:50 +0000 http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/14/quest-for-a-better-blog/#comment-37 I am so pleased for both you and Jess because the 31 Day Project had such a huge impact on me - here is where <a href="http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/blogs1" rel="nofollow">I summarised the tasks we had to do and what I learnt from the project</a>. The most important part of the project was not just working through the tasks but doing it as a community, which was very important because we learnt from each other. Our community formed for two reasons -- Michele Martin invited bloggers to join her and then we (myself and Frances McLean) added the chocolate challenge to it -- which encouraged even more people to join. If you have an opportunity to do as we did, and encourage others to join you I strongly recommend you do so. The reason I did the project was for exactly the same reason as you -- if I wanted to use blogging with students or teach others how to be a blogger I needed to learn more about blogging myself. Helping others is normal for me -- always happy to help. So many amazing people have done the same for me. I am so pleased for both you and Jess because the 31 Day Project had such a huge impact on me - here is where I summarised the tasks we had to do and what I learnt from the project. The most important part of the project was not just working through the tasks but doing it as a community, which was very important because we learnt from each other. Our community formed for two reasons — Michele Martin invited bloggers to join her and then we (myself and Frances McLean) added the chocolate challenge to it — which encouraged even more people to join. If you have an opportunity to do as we did, and encourage others to join you I strongly recommend you do so.

The reason I did the project was for exactly the same reason as you — if I wanted to use blogging with students or teach others how to be a blogger I needed to learn more about blogging myself. Helping others is normal for me — always happy to help. So many amazing people have done the same for me.

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