What you can find when you meander......

Because I'm thinking of moving my blog away from Blogger and onto Wordpress, I was interested in Warrick Wynne's experience in moving from Blogger to Edublogs (which uses Wordpress) - his old blog is here. Warrick's blog deserves further reading, which I will follow up over the next day or two. I'll not waste your time with the precise route, but over the next half hour or so, from that start in Warrick's blog, I found myself amongst a number of interesting and stimulating blogs I found Graham Wegner's blog - Teaching Generation Z. I had come across Graham's name before on ELGG, and his blog is a mine of worthwhile material. He likes the extended post, it seems, and, with his primary school context, I immediately identified a kindred spirit in his attitudes and interests! It was great, also, to come across Smith's Ninth Grade Blog - I've pointed readers towards a particular post (her latest as I write this) because you just have to read the comments on the post! All are from students in Anne Smith's class and, unless she is paying them vast sums of money to say what they have said :-) their pleasure and enthusiasm for Anne's willingness to use her students' mobile phones for an activity shines through loud and clear. One of them, kayla257, writes: "Mrs. Smith is the number one teacher and the only one who finally got into our century and used it to our adavantages." Says it all. I got to this blog, by the way, from a joint blog that Anne is involved in - Learning and Laptops. Somewhere in my meanderings, I also found someone who had tabulated many of the blog software packages against a range of criteria - you'll find the table here - a massive amount of work by Owen Winkler - and you can find his lengthy explanation of which is to be his choice of package here. I haven't read it all yet, but I will do so - and just look at the amount of comment this has generated when you go to his site! From Warrick's blog, I also found my way to think:lab a blog that considers "the future of learning and the environments that shape educational engagement" - some good stuff here, amongst which I found this gem of a blog from Andrew Pass! Here is a blog that has pointer after pointer to great teaching and learning ideas based on current events. Go look if you want some inspiration.

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