Wired has a new, somewhat controversial article about blogging: Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug. Author Paul Boutin makes some valid points: The blogosphere is dominated by online magazines, corporations, and paid bloggers. Insult comments and trolls wreck personal blogging. Text-based…
I am becoming increasingly irritated with requests, nay offers, from people I don’t know to do guest posts on my blog. Let me get this straight. You are offering me the opportunity to loan you my blog to promote your [fill in the blank] in exchange for. what? Decreased control over the content on my…
My friend and fellow Folger Shakespeare Seminar participant Nicole has a new blog called Practicing Teaching. Very reflective, and just the kind of thing I want to encourage people who participate in my GISA conference presentation to try for their own professional development. I submitted a proposal to do the same presentation at the GCTE…
Scott McLeod has shared the results of his 2008 Education Blogosphere Survey: I was a participant in the survey. Some of the slides moved by too quickly for me to read, but interesting fact for me — the number of English teachers blogging outstrips other subjects (and math comes in second). I imagine English teachers…
If you are in the Georgia Independent Schools Association, and you’re going to the annual conference this year, feel free to stop in my session, “Using Blogs and Wikis for Professional Development,” if that topic is of interest to you. Vicki is also presenting about her Flat Classroom projects. My colleague at Weber, Mike, is…
I started my master’s degree on Monday, and I have been so busy! I had a problem with direct deposit and my student loan, so I had to wait until today to get a new computer for school. The nice Mac iBook that Betsy gave me months ago died. It made me very sad. Well,…
Somehow it seems appropriate that the very outer bands of Tropical Storm Fay brought some sprinkles and a few gusts of wind today, as this weekend is my last before I begin working on my master’s degree, and it really does feel like the calm before the storm. Classes start Monday. I have been so…
In wonderful news for education bloggers, Edublogs is now offering domains to its users. If you already own a domain (or even a subdomain — for example, my classroom blog, Mrs. Huff’s English Classes is on a subdomain of huffenglish.com), you can map it to Edublogs for just $15 a year. If you don’t own…
Sarah Ebner, reporter and blogger for The London Times’ education blog Schoolgate has bestowed a great honor on this blog, naming it one of the ten best blogs about education. I don’t know about that, but I appreciate the accolade. I hope British readers who happen by here do find something useful here. I have…
I missed posting about it on the exact date (can’t believe I did that), but my blog turned three years old on June 25, 2008. Happy (Belated) Birthday, Blog! Image via PappaJack
