Bumping Into People
Posted onMay 17, 2008
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Hello world! After a forced break from writing here (too much stuff going on, I will refrain from boring you with it) I am finally feeling as though I have a little bit of not-so-rushed time to sit and contribute. For my first return post I have a face to face meeting to share with you!
Last Monday I went to the SLAV (School Libraries Association of Victoria) Web 2.0 Conference and had the pleasure of hearing Will Richardson speak. He spoke so very well and was inspiring, and it was just great to see him in person after seeing his name in so many places and reading his blog from time to time. I recorded his session with my iPod voice recorder, but I’m not sure how it will go as a podcast as it’s a bit quiet. I’ll get to that and let you know.
The highlight of the day, though, was meeting some fellow Aussie educators with whom I have been in contact with in the edublogosphere for a while now! I’ve been reading Jo McLeay’s blog for ages and we’ve had several chats online over Twitter or Skype. It was fabulous meeting Jo. She came up to me and gave me a great big hug - it was like meeting an old friend even though we’ve never met before! Here we are:
I was actually saying something to my esteemed colleague Anne at the time. I don’t normally make a habit of smiling like that! 
I also met John Pearce who runs Salty Solutions Consultancy, and blogs over at My Other Blog. He’s also part of the Oz/NZ Educators network. Here is a quick snap of me, John and Anne.
John and Gary Bass (who I met at the conference and recognised as a teacher from my school years ago!) have just written a book about Web 2.0 tools called Technology Toolkit - An Introduction to Web 2.0. Here’s Jo and John checking out Jo’s chapter in it!
So the best part of my day by far was meeting these people and a couple of others. It really felt like we (myself and Anne) were meeting up with old friends, as we have been in touch with these people for a while now as part of our personal learning networks, which are made up of our blogs, our wikis, our Twitter conversations, our social bookmarking which all facilitates our passion for learning and sharing!
Testing Windows Live Writer
Posted onMay 11, 2008
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I’ve just downloaded Windows Live Writer, so I thought I’d test it out here. I really should be heading to bed - it’s very late! I’m heading off to see Will Richardson speak tomorrow, and very much looking forward to it of course. I’m also going to meet a couple of people from my PLN in person.
Sitting Wherever She Likes
Posted onMay 3, 2008
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This afternoon as I sat playing around on my laptop my cat, Angel, came to let me know that I was not paying enough attention to her. In order to do this she sat on my lap despite the fact it was already taken up with my laptop. She cared not about this and simply settled herself in. She then proceeded to fall asleep with her head resting on my hand. I managed as best as I could for a while, but then had to gently remove her. I then got up and took her outside for a while. We’ve just moved house and so she was getting used to her new backyard. Angel is here with me now as I am snuggled up in bed early on a Saturday night. She’s having a lovely sleep right next to me. Oh, to be a cat.Live Blog Test With Year 9/10
Posted onApril 28, 2008
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Working elsewhere
Posted onApril 19, 2008
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Yes! I am still around! No! I have not fallen off the edge of the edublogosphere!
I haven’t posted on this blog for a while now because I have been concentrating my efforts on my main blog, technoLOTE. Do come and visit over there, leave a comment or two, and consider adding it to your reader!
The reason I started up this second blog back in January was because I felt that there were things to write about that I didn’t think my technoLOTE audience would really want to read about. Things like my general thoughts on blogging, or just relflections on how I’m feeling about technology etc on any given day. I’ve now changed my mind on that a bit. I think these posts, among all the ICT ideas I try to write about ar an important part of my blog as long as they don’t ‘take over’ the main idea that built the blog - which is integrating ICT into the languages classroom.
So, yes, this blog will get less attention and I will be posting what I would normally post here over at technoLOTE. Who knows, maybe it will help to grow that audience a bit more.
Please consider dropping by if you haven’t already.
