I Hate Wrtitng
I hate writing. Why the hell would I blog? Trust me, I’ve got a syndrome, with the fringe benefits of learning problems. It takes days to write a simple little post. So why blog? It’s freaky! As hard as it is, with blogging I’m enjoying the writing process.
It’s a bit late, but this is supposed to be an introduction. I’m not promising anything but I hope to cover a series of topics. People’s comments are generating incentives for more posts. Both Chad & Jabiz comments, are spurring new thinking about recruiting. I’ll write a piece sharing my opinions on international schools review, Skype, and blogging. In it, I’ll ponder questions around the Recruiting 2.0 concept.
Johnny Lee’s $40 Interactive Board is an impressive demonstration of cheap education technology. We’ll be experimenting with it. Hopefully it works but if it’s doesn’t, you’ll learn about the failures.
We’re also throwing twitter at everything in our school and seeing where it sticks. This will be a long term project, in the mean time our updates will be tweeted.
Still need to do my reflection piece from last week’s workshop, I’ve got plenty of material, just need to compile and post it.
The task will be keeping an up-to-date blog. Over time, I’m sure I’ll learn short cuts, maybe I’ll skip this writing process and move right to podcasting. Soon enough we’ll discover the results. Until then all the best.
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I would also like to explore the idea of recruiting 2.0, as it obviously relates to me.
I find it interesting that you say you might “skip the writing process and move right to podcasting” because it clearly illustrates the different ways you and I feel comfortable communicating! For me, a podcast is intimidating. I think, “wow, I will really have to plan what I’m going to say and think carefully.” Whereas a blog seems so much more natural to me. I think it’s great, regardless of the method a person uses, to get the message out there and communicate — and really, that’s what a blog is set to do. I look forward to more from howhat.org.
“The task will be keeping an up-to-date blog. Over time, I’m sure I’ll learn short cuts, maybe I’ll skip this writing process and move right to podcasting.”
If you were to move into Podcasting, how would you respond to comments, and how would you keep track of your Conversations?
I like the “written” blog as it is easily a 2 way conversation medium between you (the writer) and your readers. How do you keep up that communication with Podcasts?
tech4teach it a good point about the commenting part. I might model myself after this site http://www.thethinkingstick.com/ondeck/ they seemed to have figured out how to intergrated there podcast and comments together.
Just as the linked example shows, the central piece would be podcasted but comments would remain text based.
Hello Howhat,
I’m in Comment Challenge 5th day, trying to find a post I don’t agree with so I can post a comment.
I’m not only a beginner in blogging and in all that concerns the amazing realm of e-learning and web 2.0,I’m also trying to explain to someone else, for the first time,why I don’t agree with his or her perspective, in a comment.
I love podcasts; in a podcast we reach our receptor faster and warmly, our presence is more real, we can enrich the message with the different modulations of our voice, words become more flexible, we save time; for
multiple different purposes, podcast is more suitable, and, for the inner life of a School, it seems even indispensable.
But it can’t replace writing.
Writing goes deeper and it doesn’t take you with it as podcasting does; on the contrary, it goes beyond you, it liberates you from yourself; writing grows slowly from inner silence where all the external “podcast voices” are mixed and mingled together to find a new and unsuspected sense;writing is the quietest way of listening: the murmuring voices of the future, of what hasn’t come to being yet, become legible and translatable; only the solitary and humble work of writing enables bloggers to connect with a certain “wisdom of the network”.
Thank you for allowing me to contradict you. I will be back to learn from your blog and I wish you enjoy your podcasting.
I too love the Wiimote Whiteboard. Looking forward to hearing if you have any success with it and I of course will post back if it works out for me too.
I try to write in a very cut down style that is similar to talking. I find it helps cluster thoughts and also simplify what gets across.
It’s something I got out of blogging in Japanese.
The biggest rut I got stuck in when I first started blogging (in English) was that my blogs would end up like big essays. And that’s boring.
But it’s not only boring. It’s also visually boring. Most of us hate reading textbooks, right?
And I don’t consider myself a good enough writer to be able to sustain a classic essay style blog.
So I try to get away from that as much as possible. I even gave up blogging in English in 2004 until I started again this year.
I learned all this by blogging in Japanese. Hm.
My original title was “I hate Reading and writing” but since the subject matter wasn’t about reading, I took it out and misspelled the title on purpose. It’s one of my more common mistakes I make.
I am discovering it’s easier to record myself explaining a topic and only then am I able to place my thoughts into text. Thanks for the advise, very helpful.
I’m reading the book ‘the craft of revision’ by Donald Murray. He says “re-writing what I know…I discover what I did not know I knew.” As hard as it is it is awesome when people do it!
I checked out the International Schools Review link for a quick look - will wait to read your post on that.
cheers
Salutations, Howhat. I have a similar love/hate relationship with writing. Writing even the simplest post/comment is exhausting and time consuming. And, I’m never happy with the final results. I’ve bombed as a blogger twice (third times a charm), and I’m terrified of twitter (my thoughts don’t connect to my fingers fast enough to keep up with the conversation). Brilliant idea to go straight to podcasting. I just my try it myself.