Doing it the “wrong” way…
Leave it to me to do things in a slightly different manner. I know the task here was to set up a “WordPress” blog, and I have done this. But I already have a half dozen blogs that I periodically comment in. I guess it is one of my complaints about using blogs in education. Without intent, blogs eventually get neglected and become the flotsam and jetsam of internet space. I have blogs that I meant to comment more on, but I forgot to upgrade them, or maybe something else came up, or maybe I forgot which blog I meant to write what subject in. Either way, I have blogs that have not been well maintained.
Because it have many multiple interest, it makes sense (to me, at least) to have several blogs. So, in terms of “openwebpublishing”, I decided to put all those blogs in a highly accessible place so I would be continously reminded of them, and hopefully stimulated to use them more often. A year ago, at the Webhead Convergence, I hosted a week long session on using Portals to Maintain Web Presence. I still like the idea, and over the last year have spent a significant amount of time working on my Joomla web portal. Today, I added a category to my portal called Elderbob’s Blogs, and listed all of my blogs in that box (you can see it half way down the left column). Now, for the duration of this class, I plan to focus in on ways that I can use the portal to maintain (perhaps juggle is a better word) all the various classes and activities that I am enrolled in. If you watch closely (and I think I have the RSS set up correctly for the Portal and/or the blogs), then you will see the changes as they take place.
So with that in mind, I need to get back to my blogging in the other blogs. I will be blogging about the openwebpublishing class here, so perhaps this is a great place for many of you to watch. See ya’ later.
