Jan 06 2007

My Blog; the choir; the flock

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I just want to address a few thoughts that are flying around at the moment that we are “preaching to the choir” a bit when we blog. In that the people who read the posts we write are those who are already convinced and understand the potential of the technology. Are the people who do not understand the potential actively reading this information?

I don’t know the answer to that question, I just want to make what I write less about the theory and more about the real impact in the classroom. Ewan calls for more blogging about what is happening in the classrooms, (well I am trying Ewan ol’ chap!) and I have to agree that this alone will encourage other teachers to blog. When they see real examples of classrooms integrating the technology and real successes, that is when they become convinced.

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3 Responses to “My Blog; the choir; the flock”

  1.   # Jameson 06 Jan 2007 at 10:58 am

    And it’s great to see :) Love your use of edublogs so far!

  2.   # Doug Belshawon 06 Jan 2007 at 4:52 pm

    Why not make A4 pages with just your blog address and leave them around school? Or if not yours, then a blogger whom you respect and think would interest staff at your school. I haven’t done that yet, but I’m thinking about it… ;-)

  3.   # RossAon 06 Jan 2007 at 10:48 pm

    I think that a lot of what is written on blogs is only read by those who, as you put it, ‘understand the potential of the technology’. Getting the information to those that don’t is the hard part – but probably the most important!

    Like your idea Doug – be prepared for a fair bit of ridicule before they see the potential and rewards of reading it though. I still get stick for having a ‘geeks’ blog! :)

    Andrew