Sunday October 05, 2008 Keeping Up With Blogs is Hard :)
Wow, I don't know how people keep up with blogs. It's not like reading and responding to emails, which I can easily get 10-15 of those a day at work. With emails, they are usually a quick read and while you may go back and forth for a bit, it still doesn't seem to take lot of time.
But blogging is so different. While it is very interesting to read others opinions and being able to comment on them is cool, it is so time consuming. It's like reading papers as if I am an English teacher :) But as a math teacher, I don't like to read so much :) I've even thought about keeping one with my students to discuss math concepts or issues they may have with math concepts, but I've shied away from it due to my fear of will I be able to keep up with it.
Am I alone in this?
Posted by snteague ( Oct 05 2008, 03:20:26 PM EDT ) Permalink Comments [6]
You are definitely not alone. Besides the blogs for this class I read two blogs on LiveJournal and one other WolfBlog. (The WolfBlog doesn't allow comments, which saves some time but is extremely frustrating because I have things I want to say almost every time I read one.) I also have two other blogs which I probably write in once a month or less. Overall, this takes just about all the blogging time I can possibly scrape up. I guess I could operate more efficiently if I would take the time to learn how to subscribe to the blogs so I'd get email when they have a new entry. A lot of the time I spend now just involves checking to see if anything new has been added.
We are currently in the midst of a redesign of our CTE web pages at http://www.ncpublicschools.org and I have suggested that we incorporate a blog feature. I'm guessing if that ever gets approved it will somehow be my job since I'm the one who is all excited about the possibility. I should have learned by now to keep my brilliant ideas to myself. (It will be a while anyway. Right now the whole issue of DPI blogs is under review.)
Posted by Rhonda on October 05, 2008 at 10:58 PM EDT #
Nice to see I am not alone :) And yes, when we bring bright ideas to the table, it is certainly assumed that we want to take on the role :) Good luck with!
Posted by Staci Lyon on October 08, 2008 at 11:21 PM EDT #
You are not alone. One of my pet projects this summer was to build a class website, I started by googling different schools and looking at teacher pages. They made it look so easy. I teach CAP I so how hard could this be. I am creatively challenged so I had the hardest time figuring out what to put on the page and what pictures to use. Time is just another uphill battle due to summer school, my own kids and workshops that I participated in. Needless to say, my homepage is up but everything else is still under construction. I am captain of the boat that you speak of.
Posted by Veronica Lewis on October 13, 2008 at 08:37 PM EDT #
I feel the same way. There are not enough hours in the day to get everything done! Especially with balancing graduate school and my classroom. I hear all these wonderful ideas and I never seem to have enough time to do them all!
Posted by Kaitlin on October 21, 2008 at 09:39 PM EDT #
Glad to hear I am not alone...see how long it took me to respond :)
Posted by Staci Lyon on October 27, 2008 at 09:03 PM EDT #
I have to agree with the others. Blog are hard to keep up with. If it were not for this class, I would not have a blog. I have to make myself work on my blog and check others weekly. I also have a web site which I only update once a year. Who has time to work on these things often? Sometimes I get an email that is very creative and I wonder who has the time to sit and create such things. I know I don't. I think I can safely say that when I finish with this class, I am probably finished with blogging. I just wonder if the blogging tread will continue or will other tire of it and it will become a thing of the past. Only time will tell.
Posted by Jennifer Cable on November 14, 2008 at 08:31 AM EST #