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Friday, August 29, 2003

Hey, are we going to use this blog to keep some semester notes? Sybil told me that none of her students had heard of blogs, and none of my students have heard of blogs. have you asked yours, Cindy?

I did have one student ask "what is a blog?" but no interest beyond that.

The music theme seems to have struck a positive cord with my students. All 23 returned.

Monday, August 11, 2003

P.S. I am sending a revision of my tetrad via e-mail soon.

For our submission:
Personal Weblogging (Sybil)
I've always blogged, I just didn't know it. Before I started blogging, I had been journaling in various eccentric-looking paper journals since grade school. The reason I say I had been blogging even then is because they had a time-stamp. Always.

I actually started weblogging in the online sense in the spring of 2002 when I was taking Kevin's class dealing with Electronic Communication. A former student of mine e-mailed me the address to his blog one day. I checked it out, I loved the idea, and I then started my own that very day. I have been blogging at the personal/creative level and academic/professional level ever since.

My personal weblog is the most fun for me. I get to be creative, funny, and vent. I use blogging to get to know who I am and how I think which is why, for me, getting more and more people to read about me isn't my goal. The journals I kept before were a type of daily memoir. Tid bits of my life that could some day be read by my grandkids. The best thing that has happened to me since weblogging online is that I see life differently. In my paper journals, I could be depressing- no one read them but me. But online, even if it is just one other person reading, I don't want to bog them down with depressing thoughts all the time. I want to be positive, and that is one thing that blogging has done for me. My language and words come out, usually unedited, more positive and upbeat.

My blog addresses: http://www.xanga.com/teacher47 [teaching blog]
http://www.xanga.com/ihaveabug [personal blog]

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