June 11, 2001: “Let?s see if I can start a log?”

For a variety of reasons, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about blogging as an act, my love of it, my frustration with it, my history with it. In that spirit, today my brain wandered a bit, trying to reconstruct how exactly I came to blogging, what my first post was, and what the impetus was behind this amazing relationship I’ve had with it. I’d thrown some time at this before, searching through my Blogger archives, the Wayback machine, trying to find the very first words I blogged, but with no success. But today, I had one of those “doh” moments, realized it had been there right in front of my face all along, and finally found it.

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What a vacation!

The vacation was great - the most exhausting but absolutely one of the best family vacations ever!  I threw up some pictures at Disney Vacation if you want to see some happy kids (and parents and grandparents!!) I plan to use some of those pictures for writing activities this year!

Yesterday we finalized some plans for the school blogging project this year. I am really excitied about it! I am in the process of mapping it all out now. This will involve a whole class and the teacher - it’s going to be a grand learning experience!

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The Wonders of Publication

I added this article from today’s Times about Wikipedia to the EdBloggerNews site (which if you haven’t gone there and signed up for an account and subscribed to the RSS feed and added the bookmarklet to your toolbar so you can start contributing yet you should) and this quote just jumped out at me:

Wikipedians often speak of how powerfully liberating their first contribution felt. Kathleen Walsh, 23, a recent college graduate who majored in music, recalled the first time she added to an article on the contrabassoon.

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