What do I do now

I find this very frustrating. I havent the faintest idea what to do now? Ive clicked on quite a few buttons and they are fairly incomprehensible. I would like to see some other peoples blogs but I have no idea how to get to them. Isn’t there something about getting feeds from other blogs…how? What about searching .. again all I do is search my own blog. A bit silly.

 

As with all IT once this is mastered I probably wont have any second thoughts about it thus it is quite useful to keep this rant so that I can remember the frustration.

Published in: on January 13, 2006 at 5:04 pm
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3 Comments

  1. on January 16, 2006 at 1:48 pm Martin Terre Blanche Said:

    I’m glad you’re posting this - excellent reminder of how important it is to help people find their bearings when they enter a new context. My contribution would be that you shouldn’t expect edublogs to be much of a community (or communities) yet. It is my impression that currently it is more just a large collection of education-related blogs, but that in time more interaction will happen. I’m sure the other Farmer will do some great stuff this year to encourage that.

  2. on January 17, 2006 at 11:04 am Josie Fraser Said:

    Hi James’ dad. Have to disagree with your last poster about the non-existence of the edublogging community - there are both UK and international communities (not to mention those in all the other countries) - they are pretty new, but very much kicking.

    Also - there are training and support events for new edublogger/rss explorers. Why not come along to the next ALT edublog workshop, which isn’t advertised yet but will be on Tuesday 4th of May (book early because the last one was completely over-subscribed: http://www.alt.ac.uk/workshop_detail.php?e=191)

    There is an edubloggers mailing list you can join which will keep you up to date with any key UK activities: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/edublog.html
    A UK & Ireland edubloggers directory: http://www.camaban.co.uk/wiki/HomePage
    There’s also the third UK edubloggers meetup taking place in London on the 4th of February, http://fraser.typepad.com/edtechuk/2006/01/edublog_meetup3.html
    where we will be finalising the plans for the first UK edublogger conference which will be taking place in June, as well as brainstorming, swapping information and socialising.

    Don’t forget ALT-C this year, which will attract a lot of bloggers and podcasters because of the pro web 2.0 themes: http://www.alt.ac.uk/conferences.php
    I’m also on the ALT-C blogging group this year, and it will be our job to make sure that there is support available for people who want to try blogging out at the conference – I’m also going to submit an overview of the edublogging awards, as a practical introduction to the wide range of learning practices being supported by blogs.

    Internationally, there’s a ton going on, as James is well aware of! For a start you could check out the International Edublog Awards (founded by your son): http://incsub.org/awards/the-edublog-awards-2005/. You could also take a look at the International edublogger Frappr Map: http://www.frappr.com/edubloggers

    Yours, Josie

  3. on January 20, 2006 at 3:45 pm mikefarmer Said:

    Im not sure I like to be known as James Dad. Thanks for the above. I will digest over the weekend.