Interviewing my blog
Happy 3rd birthday next week to my blog.
Hmmmph. Mumble. Mumble.
Who said that?
Your blog, and what is so happy about my birthday?
Well, you will be three years old. Look at what you have achieved in that time.
Not that much as far as I am concerned. You have written only 60 posts in three years – that’s not even one every two weeks. Look at the statistics – 44 in 2008, 13 in 2009 and only 3 in 2010. Why aren’t you writing in me anymore?
I am sorry, blog, but as a teacher with over 300 student blogs to moderate and comment on, I seem to get carried away with writing posts for them.
Well, I hope this teacher challenge gets you excited about writing in this blog again.
It will and I promise to write two posts each week for the next month.
So what are these other blogs you have been writing in?
My grade 6/7 ICT blog, my global student challenge blog, a global international student writers blog (but this also hasn’t had many posts lately) and this year I am taking part in the 365 challenge.
OK. Looks like you do have a lot on your plate. I’ll excuse you this time, but please make some time to write in me at least once a month.
All right. I’ll do that. I’ll tell you what I am doing with helping the teachers at school.
Attribution:
Original image: ‘Creature Comforts‘
by: Adam Ward
Released under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
I’m glad you started this as it spurred me on.
Good luck with the rest of the challenge.
http://malyn.edublogs.org/2011/01/10/edublogs-teacher-challenge-day-1/
I loved your post – it was so original and made me smile
Good luck with achieving your goals.
I enjoyed reading your interview and thanks for the links to your student blogs. Great work there!
I love it! My professional blog also suffers from my focus being on my class blog and my students’ blogs.
Miss W
I can understand the neglected feeling your blog has, but as you so rightly point out, you have a lot of pans on the fire. As one who has learned a lot from the edublogs challenges you have run, I hope your blog will be gentle on you!
Thanks for the link to the 365 challenge. I hadn’t heard of it, but it looks like fun! We can learn so much from each other!
Stacy
You have achieved heaps in 3 years!! That’s a bit tough of your blog to think otherwise…blogging once a month for the teachers is a great compromise.
Your great sense of humour shines through in this post! Keep up all the great work you do with student blogs.
As always you have so many terrific ideas…I hadn’t heard of the 365 Challenge and that is wonderful. It would be something to find interesting things to photograph all year long…Are you taking all the pics or are you surfing for some?
I wonder if this wouldn’t be a fantastic way to accumulate enough images so you could almost have your own gallery of things to interject into blog posts. Do you also link the images to something like Flickr so you can sort thru them or is this method good.
Thanks for sharing and percolating my brain with more ideas….
marsha
Miss. W.
I love your blog’s personality. Please keep writing and giving ideas.
G’day Marsha,
For the challenge, you take the photos each day. Must admit I am taking more than one each day in case I forget. I am saving them in a folder on my computer but some people are doing this challenge on Flickr – just google 365 day challenge and you should get lots of hits.
I am going to do something similar once I get back to school, with those students who did ICT with me last year. We might label it “200 days at school’.
I can relate to keeping up with student blogs. I have just 120, but it seems they take all my time to read and comment on. I love it, though.
Hello Sue,
Congratulations on your fabulous Blog interview. Thank you for your support to Blogging over the years too as I remember your encouraging comments in the very early days of my Visual Arts Blog. Your students and indeed many of us have been fortunate to have had your mentorship over the past years . All the best for 2011, Yvonne
Hi Miss W
I can see why this particular blog felt a little neglected- you are SO busy working with SO many others. I don’t know how you do it! I love your 365 Challenge. It is wonderful that there are people like you who share their passion. Thanks Oona
When I looked at all the other blogs that you are a part of it is no wonder you haven’t had time for your own! I hope that you two will be back together soon though… I like what you have to say.
I also really like the look of your blog. Simple, clean and easy to follow. I’d like to make my blog window as wide as yours but I haven’t figured out how to do that at wordpress.com yet…
Lara
http://learningissocial.wordpress.com
A great interview – Very well written. Well Done.