Blogging to keep in Touch with Friends and Family

Many of you in our Learning Community want to create, in addition to your educational blog, a personal blog for family and friends. I recently learned of a former co-worker's blog and have enjoyed her adventures, tales, pictures, travels and music. The blog makes it appear that she is telling me these things and is not so many miles away. As teachers, we improve by borrowing from others so visit Karen's blog to get some ideas on a personal blog.

http://qatarisafari.blogspot.com/2008/04/over-rainbow.html

Difficulties

I thought that being a cheerleader for Web 2.0 would be easy. Was I mistaken!!! I enjoy reading everyone's blog, but finding the time to comment on all the blogs is something else. And ENCOURAGEMENT is an important part of this endeavor. It is also difficult to read the Word Verification to comment. I have had to start over several time because I typed the wrong letter. Therefore, I am getting behind in my own blog this week and taking the time to comment on others.

Pageflakes

I think I am now a Blogician. I was surfing blogs this morning and found this educational site--Pageflakes. You can put everything imaginable on it. Also, look at the link Blogs on Educational Blogging. It is an endless list to educational blogs.

Week 5 Thing 11

I browsed through the Web 2.0 Awards List and selected several of interest. Of course, when I found zillow.com, I had to type in my address and see what price they valued my home and my neighbors. Then I started searching people on peoplefinder and discovered they listed my whole family and their ages. And then I ended up on travel sites. I'll use some of those.

Week 5 Thing 10

I played with the online image generators. You can waste a whole evening doing this. Some are not appropriate for an edublog. I have to move on to the next 'Thing'.

Week 4 Thing 8 Continued

With a quick trip and chat with our Web 2.0 leader, I was able to get My Feeds on my blog the way I wanted them. Found out it was 'try and error' and then try again. It is now done. Movin' on.

Week 4 Thing 8 and 9

I thought, perhaps, this would be too difficult with my old brain. RSS... feeds... aggregators... all sound like a foreign language to me, but I read and reread the lesson and all the links. I did manage to set up my Bloglines and add several feeds, although I don't know when I will manage to get around to reading the updates.