Comments on: Making Connections and Conversations http://simonsays.edublogs.org/2007/11/20/making-connections-and-conversations/ A Catholic Teacher\'s Blog about Faith, Education, Technology, and Miscellanious! Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:32:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: skambalu http://simonsays.edublogs.org/2007/11/20/making-connections-and-conversations/comment-page-1/#comment-78 skambalu Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:32:21 +0000 http://simonsays.edublogs.org/2007/11/20/making-connections-and-conversations/#comment-78 It is great making connections ... I have just found your blog via Twitter, and am about to visit your Catholic Teachers Online wiki. I have learnt so much through blogging, especially from following links from one blogger to another. And it is always nice to get a comment on my own blog, or, like you, a personal approach from someone regarding what I have written. I am about to follow you on Twitter, and look forward to reading more of your musings in the future. It seems to have been a while since you last posted / twittered ... I hope you will be back soon! It is great making connections … I have just found your blog via Twitter, and am about to visit your Catholic Teachers Online wiki. I have learnt so much through blogging, especially from following links from one blogger to another. And it is always nice to get a comment on my own blog, or, like you, a personal approach from someone regarding what I have written. I am about to follow you on Twitter, and look forward to reading more of your musings in the future.

It seems to have been a while since you last posted / twittered … I hope you will be back soon!

]]> By: Chris http://simonsays.edublogs.org/2007/11/20/making-connections-and-conversations/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Chris Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:02:29 +0000 http://simonsays.edublogs.org/2007/11/20/making-connections-and-conversations/#comment-73 Yeah It's pretty weird... I'm looking at all these doors opening for me at the moment and realising that nearly ALL of them have come from blogging or the associated connections that have emerged from blogging. To look at this from the front end, before you begin blogging, you would have to conclude that there is no possible way that reading and writing your thought to an online environment could have any possible effect on your future... but once you start seeing it from the back end, with hindsight, the doors it opens are pretty amazing. The thing is, if someone outside of this process is skeptical of this idea of creating non-trivial connections (and they would be right to) it makes perfect sense to dismiss blogging as a self indulgent activity... but the reality of having done it is markedly different. It really DOES open a world of opporunities, or at least that has been my experience (and now yours too Simon) Yeah It’s pretty weird… I’m looking at all these doors opening for me at the moment and realising that nearly ALL of them have come from blogging or the associated connections that have emerged from blogging. To look at this from the front end, before you begin blogging, you would have to conclude that there is no possible way that reading and writing your thought to an online environment could have any possible effect on your future… but once you start seeing it from the back end, with hindsight, the doors it opens are pretty amazing.
The thing is, if someone outside of this process is skeptical of this idea of creating non-trivial connections (and they would be right to) it makes perfect sense to dismiss blogging as a self indulgent activity… but the reality of having done it is markedly different. It really DOES open a world of opporunities, or at least that has been my experience (and now yours too Simon)

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