a not-so new blog

I am not really a new blogger. I started in livejournal ca 2000/2001 when I got an “invite code” from one of my high school students. I accepted and started blogging but not really sure what to blog about. I read other people’s blogs and found it interesting like reading a gossip page. It’s amazing what people will write about themselves and their lives. Nothing really exciting happens in my life that everytime I write about it, I feel slightly less important.

Then I was pre-occupied and stopped blogging. After 5 years, I left high school teaching in a private Catholic school for girls in Manila and took on the job as a Grade 5 teacher in a small and new international school in Manila. I had a new approach to teaching and learning to get my head around in. After a year, I moved to a new country and international school in London.

I took on blogging again (on blogger) around 3 years ago mainly as a creative and technical exercise. I wanted to learn more about it and find ways how I can use that understanding in the classroom. Was it relevant to know? What is the role of blogging in the classroom? How can it be used?

I started a blog with my class on blogger and then later on with a school-hosted blog using Movable Type. It was the first in the primary school and has set an example to other classes. Now, a few other primary classes are blogging in the school 🙂

After 4 years of teaching primary and a year as curriculum coordinator and ict support teacher in the school, I left and joined an organization that offers international curriculum to many schools around the world. This meant moving and not having time to attend to my secret blog.

So. Now. I am starting a new one! A new blog about me, the work that I do, the things I’m interested in, and things I can say and do in public.