LTT: Weekly Blog Challenge - Where are you?
By alex miller • Nov 18th, 2007 • Category: Blogging, FeaturesHello LTT team!
Before I post Task 4, I’d like to know where you are all up to in this blog challenge? I have looked at all your blogs and noticed that many of you have not completed Task 3. I seem to have lost you in this challenge.
Why?
What do you think about blogging in education? Why doesn’t it work for you? Does it work for you? Is it just another thing you need to do? Can you see any benefits yet? I’d like to invite you to comment on this post and start a conversation about it. What are the issues?
What can I do to engage you in this challenge?
In Task 1, you created a blog. You refined your profile, in Task 2 - your About page. In Task 3 you were asked to comment on someone else’s blog. Blogging is about conversation and connections and to start this off, you need to comment on a blog.
Where are the blogs?
You do not have to comment on a team members blog, so let me know if you’ve gone outside the team so I can join you.
There are other NCI staff with blog’s that are worth discovering, let’s find them and engage with them. There’s a plethoras of resources out there on blogs. These people can be really beneficial, helpful to you in your daily role and have resources you can share.
I mentioned Kaz Madigan in the last task. If you haven’t had a look at her colourful and wonderful blog, have a look now.
Have you been to the NSW Outreach blog?
Are there any more blogs you know of?
I’d also like to invite the wider community to comment on some of these blogs. It would be great if you could help us find the value in connecting with other educators.
Team Blogs (ready for comments and conversations;
- Linda Johnson
- Julie Robbins - Arts & Media, Soft Furnishings Blog
- Regan Harding - Byron Community Youth Blog
- Lynne Ridley
- Lisa Faulkner - Flexilearn Center Grafton
I look forward to the conversation and collaboration.
alex miller is I am currently working in education and innovation for North Coast Institute, TAFE NSW. For more information, check the 'about' page.
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Hello- where does thos comment go?
Oh- there it is!
I am not into blogs yet as until I have a ‘need’ or special interest & purpose I just find it confusing so far! But after using both the blogs & wikis I am more confident in social networking & have encouraged all of the Gen Ed campuses to let me set up their own share point sites to start using for all file sharing , news, links etc. This might sound boring but is a big change- I now want to do some recordings on how to use it to put up for our non techno staff. The thing I like about share point is that it is sort of social networking, but with the legalities covered and we can link to other current versions etc of our forms and stuff. It is hard to get us TAFEies away from email so this might be a start to get the gen ed staff to open the share point site to start with each time they sit at a computer. Hoping to get them to start using the one document instead of everyone having it saved on their own udrive etc. I looked at the google docs file sharing stuff which looks good. That’s all from me today
Thanks Donna!
It’s true it’s good to have a ‘purpose’ or special interest. A class blog can be a great idea because classes tend to keep using it long after the course finishes. I’ve seen a few that have really taken off.
SharePoint eh? Good on you! All of our ‘kits’ will be in SahrePoint and it’s only going to grow, so building capability in this area is fantastic.
See you soon.
Alex
this is the best.