Posted in Blogging, Challenge on Feb 4th, 2008 15 Comments »
With Queen’s “Under Pressure” beating around my head, I tried to resist, but can’t. I HAVE to write this post. (dramatic much?)
As a new blogger, I have extreme enthusiasm and absolutely love the reflection and sense of community that blogging has added to my professional life. That being said, I’m getting frustrated and a bit overwhelmed [...]
Posted in Blogging, Challenge on Jan 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Day 5 Challenge: Conduct an About Page Audit
This one was pretty tough, since this was the day I started really worrying whether I should have my name on my blog. I was struggling with my firm belief in transparency and my worries of my rights as a blogger. All that is resolved now, and I [...]
Posted in Challenge, Social Networks on Jan 18th, 2008 6 Comments »
I’ll confess, even though it may decrease my credibility: Before November of 2007 I belonged to not a single social network (well, excluding the pregnancy group I joined on ivillage back in 2005). Can you believe it? I’m supposedly of this group discussed in “Education Week: ‘Gen Y’ Teachers Want to Innovate, Education Leaders Lag Behind“:
“Generation [...]
Posted in Blogging, Challenge on Jan 17th, 2008 4 Comments »
We’d like to welcome Michelle to the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge! Check out Michelle’s blog, Views From the Basement, and stay tuned as she works to improve it. Also notice that in the sidebar here on Kate 2.0, there is a new section devoted entirely to the Challenge. Visit the blogs from Andy, [...]
Posted in Challenge, Ramblings on Jan 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
(Note: Yes, this is slightly off-topic, but I think it gives insight on me as the author of this blog. If you’re looking for posts about technology in education, you can start with yesterday’s post! I’m learning a ton today and will share tomorrow…….)
I’m at home today with the kids on a snowy, freezing Thursday and look back to when [...]
Posted in Blogging, Challenge, Teaching on Jan 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
Happy sigh………yesterday was one of those “this is why I love teaching” days. The best part about it was that it wasn’t really planned, things just flowed into an incredible (in my opinion) lesson. My 6th graders were all starting to get warmed up in their typing program and since that’s pretty tedious to watch, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Challenge on Jan 14th, 2008 8 Comments »
This all started after Sue Waters of Mobile Technology in TAFE emailed me offering advice on how to improve on my blog. Now, why would Sue take the time out of her day to email ME? Simply stated, it’s because she’s the type of educator and blogger who cares. Over the past few days, Sue has become my unofficial [...]
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