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So, What are YOU Blogging for?

Published on 2008-05-09 in BeeDieu, CarlaArena, ChristopherSessums, Connections, CrisCosta, MaryHillis, Webheadsinaction, begin2blog, blogging, comment08, edublogpractice, edublogtalk, education, gladysbaya and vancestevens. 5 Comments
I couldn’t resist this one!
I’ve been an admirer and reader of Chris Sessums for a while. But this post has really touched in what I’ve been trying to share for some time now with educators all over when we have the Electronic Village blogging4educators  sessions.
It’s all about a purpose.
So, how’s my blogging related to my business?
As an educator, my blog reflects who I am, my interests, my passions, my drives, so then it’s an open space for sharing and learning. By blogging and reflecting, I can improve who I am, try to think outside the box, get other’s input, establish new connections. It makes me move forward and it directly influences my teaching and my approaches to learning and teaching. Since I started blogging, I have certainly become an educator who truly believes in the power of collective learning and building of knowledge.
Blogging is transformative and makes me change every day, and I hope it reflects on the new learning opportunities I’m providing my learners with.
Thanks, Chris, for starting this!
I’d love to hear from my friends Cris Costa, Mary Hillis, Gladys Baya, Vance Stevens , Ronaldo Jr., Bee Dieu .
So, guys, how does your blogging relate to your business?
As  Chris suggested, pass this question on to people around you…An interesting, basic question that should guide us in our blogging world.
Here’s a video Chris shared with some fresh perspective of some educators about why they’re blogging and how:

The Power of MicroBlogging

Published on 2008-01-15 in CarlaArena, Connections, Network, Webheadsinaction, blogging4educators, gladysbaya, kwout, microblogging, twitter and web2.0. 3 Comments
There’s not much time to say here everything I’d like to. Too much going on in our session blogging4educators since today we dropped the curtains and our avid participants were already there chatting, interacting and finding themselves around or getting a little lost.
However, I just wanted to keep it registered here something that I find quite amazing and it’s even more clear to me now. For the past year, I’ve been twittering, not so frequently as I wished, but I’m always there through Skype (I get my twitter updates through my skype account) and learning from others. There’s always a resource, a podcast, a blog mentioned by someone in my network that takes me deeper into subjects that I feel like exploring. No, twittering is not shallow. It establishes human contact with powerful mind connections. I guess nobody has the real notion of how it is impacting other people’s lives. Interesting enough that people that I’ve never seen f2f have been giving so many invaluable insights from this brave new online world. Microblogging has proliferated as microspheres of our daily lives in the personal spectrum, as well as professional. It is faster, dynamic, a living thing. I started with Twitter, signed up for pownce, though never used. And just today I checked Gladys Baya’s Tumblr to realize she’s been posting wonderful things there, little treasures of her own. All of a sudden I get to her own world in a different perspective. I’ve been interacting with her so intensely for the past months in preparation to the blogging4educators, but then I stumble into her Tumblr. Suprise. A chest of Gladys’ bits, different from the ones I’m used to, even more complete. Microblogging is another sphere of one’s many facets.
After the pleasant moment of satisfaction to “see” Gladys through different lens, I came across one of her bits that called my attention, kwout. A very cool application and as user-friendly as any web2.0 should be. Thanks, Gladys, for sharing your Tumblr and your other micro-side! Here’s the result of my test with kwout. Just loved it!

Blogging4Educators Logo on Flickr – Photo Sharing! via kwout

Microblogging. Connectivity power in a few sentences, fragments of oneself.
Related post: Twitter Strikes me Again

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