I've joined the 31 Day Challenge Participants at Michele Martin's blog. She has been very supportive of me as I've worked to get this blog up. Having been hanging around the blogosphere for years, with her challenge I decided to start a blog now. Count me in. The chocolate challenge seems way over my head and besides, I'm allergic to chocolate. I will be tagging along.
Lots of ideas run around in my head. Now I have the challenge of organizing and integrating them. Michelle's first question to me was "What do you want to write about?" Focusing on the "what" and then mastering the learning process for getting a public blog up for the first time took me several days. I'm glad I can now say, "Here I am."
If you want to see some of the diverse content running through my attention these days, my del.icio.us tags are at nanri53. This week I also came across recommendations for several books for middle schoolers. Strong plot and characters. Just my kind of reading. Got them from the library this afternoon and am off to read Polly Horvath's The Trolls.
Welcome to the blogosphere, Nancy! The blog looks great and I'm looking forward to having your voice added to the conversation!
Posted by: Michele Martin | August 05, 2007 at 09:40 AM
Hi Nancy
welcome too from me, another 31 days challengee.
Nice to know you are not in the challenge just for the chocolate!
Posted by: Kate Foy | August 06, 2007 at 02:42 AM
Hello :)
Another welcome to the blogosphere :)
I really like how you describe freelearning... I see much of my exploration with blogging as getting better again at freelearning (not a term I've used to describe it before - but one that seems to fit well) - after time in learning institutions with slightly too much emphasis on having finished thoughts rather than thoughts and learnings in progress...
Posted by: Tim Davies | August 08, 2007 at 05:58 PM