“I have nothing to blog about…” | My response

I have heard this said, in various ways and tones, after many sessions this year. When I have discussed sharing and collaborating online around teaching inquiries, I hear comments such as the one in the title – or variants of it, such as: “I have nothing worth sharing.” “There are others who know far more […]

Cross posting

No, I’m not angry, or even mildy peeved. But all my blogging juices have been channelled into posts on other blogs recently – and why should you miss out? Beware. Some of these links may take you the blogs of my employers. Necessity is the mother of invention: an overview of how Christchurch schools have […]

A dead blog

This blog is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t added this last post ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, […]

A star in a galaxy

Recent news stories on the number of blogs being published on the net made me feel somewhat humbled and insignificant. How is anyone supposed to compete? Technorati, which keeps an eye on the blogosphere, estimates that there are now 120,000 new blogs being created every day. Posts are being added to blogs at a rate […]

An insatiable public clamours for more….

Am becoming aware that blogging takes time, and time ain’t something that I have a lot of of (what a fabulously badly constructed sentence). Not so much time-poor as lying prone on the steps of the Time’s alms-house with begging bowl slipping from exhausted fingers….and that ol’ winged chariot shot by me in a cloud […]

Foothills of the blogosphere…

Never has a decision been so tough. Clearly the name of one’s blog must say so much in so few words. Get it right and it will slip into the mind and wriggle in like a tick, something to recommend to others and recall at a moment’s notice. Get it wrong and, presumably, reader-less and […]