Miss W. and her Smartboard

Everyday, I come into my blog and check if anyone has written a comment.  None for a couple of days but I notice my clustrmap has a few more dots on it.  So how am I going to get people to read my thoughts and questions and also post a comment?

I know, look at a few other blogs from well known bloggers, see what they are writing about, add a comment to something they have written. 

 Well I started with Sue Waters at Edublogger which I also read daily for her hints on how to improve your blog.  In the comments, I then check out the blogs of those people and today found quite a few.  I began with Cathy Nelson posting about her 2008 goals, keeping your head in the sand and women bloggers.  From there I checked out a few of the other comments and this lead to Kathy Schrock with her list of tech educators and Leslie Fisher with her travels in Australia.  I can see from this I am going to have to add to my blogroll.

Well I can see tomorrow will be another day of reading, writing lessons for my smartboard and updating my blogroll.

Well today I have spent the last few hours looking through many sites about blogging, but the one I found most helpful was a wikispace http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/blogs . The author of this wikispace is also writing the following blog which I have also found to have some useful tips for a newbie.

I have decided this year to learn how to blog as well as use my new smartboard in my middle school classroom. So I have lots of questions such as can I add pages to my blog for each of my students so they can blog as well or am I better to have them post comments instead? If you have any great suggestions for using the smartboard, please mention these as well particularly if they relate to Australian curriculum.