How did that blog happen?

I stopped off at the Mountain View Public Library to talk to you before I head into the ozark woods to attend Leader U.

Cool Cat, Vicki Davis, suggested that bloggers blog their journey as they begin their blog. So, here goes.

It actually started long before this blog started last week. I have always been interested in technology (don’t they call them people GEEKS) . A little over a year ago I stumbled upon Wesley Fryer’s blog Moving at the Speed of Creativity and I was hooked. I bought an inexpensive mp3 player from Wal-Mart and listened to all of his podcasts back to the beginning. I then did the same for all of David Walick’s podcasts while I worked in the yard and garden. The message that jumped out at me from both of these that I need to be blogging my own personal learning journey. This viral thing must be contagious. I took the plunge.

I first set up a blog on Google’s Blogger.com. I had a blog in less than 5 minutes. However, David Warlick warned teachers in one of his workshops that Blooger has a “Next Blog >>” bar at the top of the page. This link takes the reader a random blog that could be anything.

I switched to edublogs.org. Here is where I hit my first hurdle: What do I name my blog? I thought about this question for two days. After all, after I picked it, I was stuck with it forever. I thought about even brainstorming a list of words or write them in a cluster map. I also had to decide on an address. You can see at the top of the screen what I ended up with, and my first and second blog post explains why.

I added most of the plug-ins available and choose a cool theme and I was up and running.

It has taken more time than I thought it would to write. Sometimes I get sidetracked looking for hyperlinks to include in my blog entries. Some writing advice I heard once was, “Stay off the internet! Stay of the internet! Stay off the internet!” I now understand distracting that can be.

I have also been working on developing a professional development blog for my school district. It has great potential, I hope it works out.

Time to get going. I’ll talk to you again later.



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