Back to the Blog

Well, I’m back! Did you miss me? (Yes, I know nobody’s reading this yet, but it makes me feel better to pretend I have an audience) Anyway, since heading back from the Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, I’ve been itching to do more writing, and so far the only outlet I’ve had has been making a few comments on Will’s site. Since the conference, I began using bloglines to keep track of the blogs I want to read regularly. I must admit that I feel foolish for not using it more before. It’s so much easier to keep track of all the sites that I’d like to follow. I visit it several times per day now. In fact, while typing this very entry I went back and organized them all into categories. I’m sure I’ll need to reorganize them again as the list grows, but it’s a start. I’ve also opened up a furl account. Used it a few times, but haven’t found it extremely useful yet. However, you can’t do everything at once.

At the workplace, I’m almost ready to get the website going live from our in house webserver. The nice thing is that our main site will be served up via apache, and our secondary site will be a combination of Apache and Manila. Frontier will be running in the background, which will give our school access to in house blogging for the first time. I truly think it’ll make a huge difference in terms of creating a living precense on the web. Oh yeah, I also set up MediaWiki on there as well. Works great, just haven’t figured out what I’m going to do with it. Of course, what I mean is that I’m not sure how our teachers/students will use it yet. It’s very exciting stuff.

I must admit, I’ve been dying to do more writing, and I have so much built up inside that I want to put into words that I’m having difficulty deciding what to write now and what to set aside for another entry. In particular, I’ve read so many blog entries that I want to respond to, but first I need to learn how to do it. I keep reminding myself, one step at a time. Rome wasn’t built in a day.