I often try to articulate why I think blogging has been such a transformative action for me. Seth Godin and Tom Peters have articulated it brilliantly in 1 minute and 37 seconds. They are both marketers, but what they say is relevant to anyone who writes a blog. Watch this.
Then start blogging.
Posts Tagged as ‘Blogs’
August 23, 2009
Why blogging matters
May 2, 2009
The Robert Pattinson effect
Cover of Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition)
An interesting thing happened on the way to building readership of our school library blog.
One of our staff wrote a post about Robert Pattinson. (You know him, he plays Edward in this film that’s done pretty well at the box office of late. Twilight, that’s the one. If you work in [...]
February 15, 2009
Theory into practice – making it meaningful in the school library.
Image via Wikipedia
This year, we’re trying to make Web 2.0 more meaningful in our School Library. Last year we moved most of our pathfinders over to wiki format to encourage collaboration and input into the development of resources to support subject areas and projects. The take up was pretty good and most people know what [...]
January 26, 2009
Why do we blog?
I’ve mentioned recently that my friend Nina has started writing a blog focusing on the early years classroom. She’s doing amazingly well, but already the questions have started.
Why are you doing this?
What do you think will come of it?
etc, etc, etc.
Anyone who blogs has heard it all before. The lack of understanding from some and [...]
October 23, 2008
Blog or thesis?
I attended our School’s Yr 12 Valedictory dinner last night. A wonderful celebration of the incredible young women who attend the school I teach at. The guest speaker was a former student who had left the school 10 years ago. She spoke of time at university and post graduate studies completing her Master’s degree. It [...]
July 30, 2008
Dinner with John and Jan
I was really fortunate Tuesday night to catch up with John Connell and his lovely wife Jan who were visiting Australia with Cisco, the company John works for. His job is Education Business Development Manager for the Emerging Markets – covering South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia. John has been an encouraging mentor [...]
July 13, 2008
Blogging 101 – 6 months in
Today it’s been exactly six months (and one day I’ve just realised!) since I started writing this blog. What have I learnt??
You can reach out and share knowledge with the world. A surprise to me really – I did think this was going to be a resource for my school but it’s become much more [...]
July 2, 2008
Eyes Wide Open – bloggers to watch.
One of the good things about being on school holidays has been having some time to explore links that take me to blogs I haven’t had a chance to discover due to the demands on time when working. There are two in particular that have caught my eye for different reasons.
First discovery came from a tweet from Alec [...]
April 10, 2008
Guest on Open PD – who would have thought!
This morning I was skyped into a conversation about blogging on Darren Draper and Robin Ellis’ Open PD session. I found out about it via a conversation on Twitter with Sue Waters, who was musing about the difficulties of waking up at 5.00am (or earlier!) so that she could take part. Sue’s an incredibly generous person (and [...]
March 4, 2008
Putting out the call – how do we break down the walled gardens?
Right. I need help.
There, I’ve said it. Today I have struggled with how I am going to go about creating a form for our parent community to sign regarding use of what we are calling ‘connective reading and writing’. (Thanks Clay Burell, we stole it from your document that you have available on Google Docs). A supportive staff [...]
