July 24, 2007
We’ve been having so much fun changing the theme of our blog and adding widgets and organizing sidebars that I’m worried that we’ll miss the point of the thing. This is a powerful communication tool but it is also something that we need to work at. I had the best of intentions when I set up my blog for school last summer. My goal was to get the kids writing and to update it every week. As school got started, it was easy to let the blog go. I hope that as I revitalize my blog this summer that people in the class will motivate me to keep posting. As we subscribe to each other’s blogs, it will be an easy way to stay in touch as the summer days end and the real work begins. Please help to keep me accountable for my posting here!!
July 26th, 2007 at 10:15 am
“fun changing the theme of our blog and adding widgets and organizing sidebars that I’m worried that we’ll miss the point of the thing”
The guilt thing is something we all carry around like the canvas bag that goes from school to home to school with not one thing removed, not one item checked off the list, not one article read. The guilt bag. So when you talk about the fun of changing themes and adding widgets, I think of an internship I did with Nancie Atwell some years ago. She often talked about inviting students to write. She and the teacher researchers with her were all about making attractive spaces, comfortable places–filling those areas with inviting writing tools, beautiful papers, and rich models in print and illustration for students to emulate. Now with that power of example for real spaces, I think we can give over to the spirit of Web 2.0 and not worry too much about time spent fixing up our cozy little niche we carve out of a large unwieldy intimidating web.