30 Days to being a better blogger…
November 3, 2008
Steve Dembo’s 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger has arrived at the perfect time. I haven’t been blogging much lately because I seem to be losing my inspiration.
At work, I am feeling as if my hands are tied and we can’t try anything new because it uses those evil words of ’social networking,’ ‘open source,’ ‘freeware,’ or the possibility that some child MIGHT do something wrong. We can’t expect to prepare students for the world of no filtering if we keep our filter so locked down that most everything is blocked. My department gives lip service to “educating the teachers and students how to make good choices on the web” but we don’t do anything to back it up. So the few of us who are out there training teachers are limited in how we train. I get so tired of certain groups dictating for the masses and being censors. I might even be ok with it if those groups were up with the latest technologies/tools/integration trends. With this I have lost my passion to look for anything new. Let me continue to train on SMART Notebook software, Inspiration, TimeLiner, and Microsoft Office. I don’t want to search or even try something new. That doesn’t make me happy.
Recently, I read Jeff Gidden’s post There are None So Blind and he wrote what I was thinking. And this made me think for the same reason Jeff continues to blog, I need to as well. I need to be setting an example for those around me.
With that it brought me to Steve Dembo’s Better Blogger challenge. So how am I doing on the challenge? Day #1 update my About page. Done. The only problem I have is my widgets won’t edit or let me update them. If you have an edublogs blog and you can help please email me (maryann.sansonetti@gmail.com). It only says I have 12 widgets and if I try to change them it deletes them and I have to start all over.
Day #2 Play in Traffic: Take a look at your blog traffic. I took a look at my Google Analytics and my blog traffic is during the week. Most of the traffic at this point has been redirected from my previous blog. As I am blogging on this site longer my statistics will become more detailed. I will keep track of them.
Day #3 working on it… check back…
So anyway, thanks Steve for challenging me to take a look at who I am as a blogger and want to be better!
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Cathy Nelson | November 3rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Ive been where you are…some things can be so frustrating!! Hang in there MaryAnn, you have a much wider audience than just Richland 1. And we are hungry for the kind of information you are eager to share. Give Pugs a smooch for me! Just got my Willow back today–we had a college visit this weekend and so all the pets were boarded until today. We left Friday and hit Univ of Alabama and U of Tenn this weekend. UA is fabulous! Could it be b/c they are ranked #1 in a college poll for FB? That’s my guys for ya.
Looking forward to hanging out at EdTech—cuz I AINT working.
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Looking for inspiration&#&hellip | November 5th, 2008 at 10:18 am
[...] am at SC EdTech in Myrtle Beach, SC this week. If you read my last post you know I am a little discouraged with technology integration or my lack of passion so I am hoping [...]
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Greg | November 5th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Recently came across your blog and think you need to keep going. I enjoy your writings. Keep pushing all the “evil” technologies because it’s what our students are going to need in order to survive in college and the work world. It’s going to be hard for the District to embrace the new technologies when these same technologies have not been implemented to help the District run more efficiently.
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