Lisa DA new year’s resolution I can keep, B³ : Be a Better Blogger :)
While catching up on some of my rss reads, I happened across a post, Life is One Big Top Ten, on Sue Water’s TAFE site . In it she mentioned Steve Dembo’s 30 Days to Be a Better Blogger. Ok I must admit I am a total geek, but it runs in my genes. How many people have a 88 year old grandfather that blogs? I have been totally ecstatic that our parish finally opened up a blog site! I have been waiting for years to have an interactive site for my students.
Since the unblocking (November ’08) of Edublogs, I have been focused on the integration aspect of blogging:
- Organization of blog pages
- Steps for students to earn blogs
- Trial runs with students
- Finding great widgets
- Daily Journal dilemma (keep old, use edublogs, revamp)
- and so on..
I hadn’t really focused on how my blog looks to the rest of the world. My students love it, so it has to be great, right? LOL Ok, maybe not:)
I am officially making a New Year’s Resolution to complete Steve Dembo‘s 30 Days to Be a Better Blogger. Wow! a resolution I can actually keep:) I didn’t even take a sneak peak at what was going to happen over the next 30 days of this journey. I have already completed day one which involved revamping my about page.
UPDATE: Great suggestion @suewaters, I am going to also work through the original challenge, 31 day challenge. From what I can tell, it won’t be too time consuming to complete both. It is also broken into two categories, so challenges are different for beginners vs. intermediate. Pretty cool!
Lisa, that's a great goal for the New Year.
My students commented on Day 27 (you'll hve to wait!). Steve got some great advice from other bloggers (many of whom I read or follow). My modest goal for the first week back is to have their advice made into posters for around my room.
I am pretty thrilled with the evolution of blogging in our classroom. There is an ethic of communication & support that I marvel at. Good luck with your goal & best wishes for 2009!
Congratulations Lisa on deciding to work through Steve's challenge.
I suggest you also compare the tasks that I did in the original Challenge that was run by Problogger. There are some differences between the two challenges. I gained so much from the 31 Day Project.
If you can organise a group to work through the Challenge with you — you will find it even better.
Great idea, as always:) THANKS!!
Thanks for your comment. You'll have to pop in and see how we are doing:) Feel free to send me ideas!
I love the idea of putting student advice around the room. Ill try to wait until day 27 to read your students' comments…we'll see.