31 Days - Current Reflections and Challenges

[Kate Olson]

This is just a spot for the members of the current challenge group to post reflections and challenges faced while completing the challenge. Perhaps challenge-veterans can respond to our pleas for help here!

[Kate Olson]

Ok, I'm starting it off with my difficulty in linking to my own posts in edublogs. There HAS to be an easier way - currently as I understand it I'd have to get out of the post I'm writing to get the link? I just don't have the time..........any suggestions/tips for edublogs? By the way, I changed my theme again and am much happier with it. Only issue I have is with my clustrmap and Classroom 2.0 badge being so close together - is there something I can change in the code to make them further apart? Am going to do "About" page audit later on and add a picture - yikes! I don't have ANY good pics of me lately, so I guess I'll just have to deal with a bad hair day every time someone checks out the page :-) Advice on issues, please!!!!

[Kate Olson]

Good advice, Jess! If you have it set up to moderate comments before they appear, you can just delete that pingback when it comes to you for moderation. An extra step, but not too tough. I'll keep my blog open in different windows from now :-)

[Kate Olson]

Name Change: Notice, I've changed the name of my blog, it's no longer Kate 2.0, it's now Reflection 2.0. I'm having serious thoughts about my rights as an educator to blog, so am trying to make my identity less obvious. See my post http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org/2008/01/19/professional-suicide/.

[Suzanne]

Interesting Blog post. For various reasons, my blogs are anonymous. I used a shortened form of my name, and dont identify specifics of location etc. For safety as much as professional protection. I tend to think everything we tell our students about protecting themselves online applies to us as well...

[Andy Roberts]

Day 7 - plan next weeks blogging schedule


With some reluctance I'm tackling this one now. I thought about where I would write my schedule - on a piece of paper, in notepad, on a wiki then decided the best place is right there in the blog dashboard alongside any draft posts.

Is anybody else keeping up a plan for scheduling next weeks blogging and if so where are you keeping it?

[Sue Waters]

Andy this was definitely a valuable task but a hard. What I did was roughly plan each day what I would blog about but then ended up writing them each day. It brought additional readers to my site because I wrote about mlearning, which is something I say I write about but hadn't done much with. And I presented the information differently from others - so it worked out really well.

Definitely planning the series in your blog dashboard is the way to go.

[Sarah Stewart]

I am finding this really hard too. Not because I do not keep to my I plan but because I do extra stuff. But I have to be a lot more savvy about my time management so have got to give it a go.

[Kate Olson]

Danielle - I look forward to reading about your progress! I'll be reading your blog to see how it's going :-) I agree about slowing it down a bit, I'm kind of just doing 5 days at a time, that way it allows me to really focus on it for one day a week.

[Rebecca KrauseHardie]

I'd like to join this challenge if not to late to start. And not really sure where to start. But seems like a great idea!
thanks
Rebecca

[Andy Roberts]

Welcome Rebecca, it looks like you've started already by posting here. Next you could look at the first seven days as prescribed by Darren Rowse, documented by previous challengers and add your name and blog onto the wiki page .
We seem to be following the day by day tasks a little les synchronously than the original group, which is understandable as we're doing it retrospectively, so catching up or esle following 7 days behind doesn't present a problem.

[Kate Olson]

Rebecca - I have the link to the challenge on the sidebar of my blog at http://googtweetblog.edublogs.org + the blogs of the other challenge members! It's not really something we're all doing exactly at the same time, so start whenever you can!

Kate

[Rebecca KrauseHardie]

Thanks so much Kate and Andy!