Well, I found out these last few days that I do still love teaching, even if I don't feel I'm doing a lot of it. After my lecture on Friday morning (having been up since 3.30am) I got so many great comments on my blog and emails in the inbox that I realised, for the first time, that blogging is a powerful tool that really is getting people impassioned for what's going on in their life, instead of just letting things drift on by.
If you want to become a blogger there is nothing simpler than just getting over to something like Blogger and DOING IT. Annie B. is one of these doers. I admire her for it. Her blog, Down To Earth and Flying High, started yesterday and wi th two posts already, reads like a pro. In fact, she should consider writing a book. I'd buy it.
She's joining a growing number of Jordanhill bloggers since Friday's lecture (and a good few before then, too). Certainly going onto my blogroll along with To Blog Or Not To Blog (actually started during my lecture - now there's a real digital native) and the pre-Friday morning To Probation and Beyond. Wonder if they'll blogroll me, too?
Update: Yet another interesting read from yet another Jordanhiller - they've got the virtual Mars Bar from me, that's for sure.
I would certainly like to comment on them but I can't remember my Blogger login - much prefer it when the Blogger users just let anyone comment. Maybe they'll get round to that soon.
The pic's from David's Flickr account: "He seems to have an unfeasibly large number of gadgets round his neck
and yet later on he took an iPod shuffle on lanyard from out of his
pocket to add to the collection"
Update: the screencast of the lecture is now available here.
Blogger lets you comment as "anonymous" - you just stick your name on the end as on a letter. I've had it on mine :-)
Posted by: Chris | January 15, 2006 at 11:18 PM
Long time reader, first time commentator. Overall the entire lecture went better than expected. As a student in Technology the subject material was very relevant to me (Even if I didn't see so at the time). Also it was good to get extra info on podcasting and skypecasting, which I've always been unsure of, although some of my my techie colleagues previously thought that blogging was somthing carried out by the unemployed.
Posted by: jaggymonster | January 16, 2006 at 12:21 AM
I liked your comment about an "unfeasibly large number of gadgets" round someone's neck. Made me think of something I heard on the radio early morning last week. This guy was saying that he was carrying on his person more digital memory than was available in the whole world when he was born!
That in turn reminded me of something I heard about 10 years ago that even at that time your average home computer had more computing power than NASA had to put the man on the moon!
Posted by: Eva Forbes | January 16, 2006 at 09:32 PM
That doesn't surprise me. My own ZX Spectrum, the first computer I had in the early 80s, had 48k of memory. When you typed a lot of code into it there was a visible delay between what you typed and it appearing on screen. Incredible! Here, I was wearing a 256MB voice recorder (iRiver), a microphone and a device for hard of hearing students, so all pretty essential for giving (and keeping) a lecture.
Posted by: Ewan McIntosh | January 17, 2006 at 07:54 AM
So it was so easy to blog and gives me something to do while they lecture...thats is while i am still paying attention...
Hope you liked the funny comments i made on david's flickr photos...i am rather funny...almost Mars bar rewarding funny...remind David of this fact plase...
My flickr link,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyrax_cwb/
And remember to tune in to a computing teachers life on my blog spot...
http://chrisblogictlecture.blogspot.com/
until nect time...
Posted by: Chris | January 17, 2006 at 04:21 PM