I’ve just realised how important it is to have a back-up blog. Unfortunately Edublogs is experiencing difficulties after upgrading to a new server. I love edublogs – it’s comfortable and I know what I’m doing there, my widgets work (and are so easy to insert) – but I’m going a bit crazy not being able to access my class portal blog or my own personal blog.
So here I am at blogger.com – learning how to use it (slowly I might add – so excuse the mistakes!), and learning how to post this at the same time! Isn’t it funny how quickly you forget what to do when you have everything set up! So now I have a back-up blog. I feel better already. Don’t get me wrong – I’m still a huge edublogs fan and I will return there as soon as I can write a post!
I’m reading the posts coming through my google reader about NECC 07. The “buzz” is so electric, I can literally feel it! – I wish I was there (it’s probably the only time I’m wishing I didn’t live in beautiful NZ). David Warlick reminded me about Hitchhikr to help keep track of what’s going on so I’ve been checking there everyday too. I’m hoping some podcasts will be posted soon so I can imagine that I’m there! A huge congratulations to Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay for receiving FIRST place in the SIGTel Online learning awards for the Flat Classroom Project. (I think Vicki only found out at the opening session). That is awesome! And it doesn’t stop there! SECOND place went to Sharon Peters and Reuven Weber and Karen Guth for their International Collaborative Literature Project. Well done WOW2.0 ladies! Well done and well deserved!
Yes, edublogs has been quite difficult over the past few weeks, frustrating for me too as I read quite a few blogs over there – yours included. There were days there when all I got through my reader was error messages rather than interesting postings!
You will learn Blogger very quickly; and until then… feel good as you should be able to post no matter the difficulties!