One year old!
Friday, April 4th by carlaThat was my gut response a year ago when eNotes approached me about blogging for them. Maybe I could dress up old tales from the classroom to make them interesting to a new audience. Maybe I could talk about the changes technology has brought to education. I might be able to handle, say, a month, outside. But after that? I kept asking myself, what would I say after that? Out loud I said, “I’d love to.”
One year old! I want to thank Alex for his vote of confidence and Scott for his support. I also want to thank Nancy, Marilynn, Dawn, Art, Jamie, and everyone else who has left a comment or forwarded an article or joke. It’s a true for us as it is for our students: knowing we are writing for a real audience keeps us on our toes. The little guy in the baseball shirt is serving cake. Have some!
“But what will I say?”
And now it’s a year later. Topics seem to take care of themselves. I’ve blogged about Shakespeare , solar cells, and semicolons, about poets , politics , and podcasts. The year has gone quickly.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Thanks for all your great posts - I feed many of them onto my English Dept here in NZ via our department blog.
Happy Birthday!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Congratulations! This is a must read for me. Thanks for being so good at what you do. You seem to know just what the teachers out there are gonna love. Great instincts and terrific writing. I look forward to reading it for years to come.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:50 am
I enjoy this blog because its post are short and informative and the topics are varied.
Thank you and…Happy Birthday!
April 5th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Happy Birthday! I love this blog. It is both a great source of ideas and a breath of fresh air. Thanks for all you do.
April 5th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Happy blogday! Many happy returns.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Thanks, everyone!
April 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Happy Birthday, Carla. I wish I’d been there at your birth. I have about 12 blogs fed to me, but yours is the only one I really read regularly. I know what I find will be funny, thought provoking, or (often) both. All the best!
dawn