Thank you very much again.

I am sure Chloe will be pleased.

There are some new bloggers who may need a hand, if your classes need/want extra people to write to.

http://stjohns.edublogs.org/

The St Johns’ kids have co-operated in making rules about blogging which seem eminently sensible. I really support what they are learning about the nature of Open Source through their education. It will make them eminently employable. It isn’t just a Windows XP world for us any more.

Now how to write comments that people will read. I must say I haven’t really studied the science of this. First of all, you treat the blog with respect because it is an art form. You have to have a lot of feeling for other people’s writing to criticise or just talk about it. Also, you have to see where they are in life and what they’re doing. I think I learnt much of my commenting technique from the way my teachers have commented on my journals over the years. They always had good and wise stuff to say which I could learn from and apply next time. They also helped me to tune into my audience. One thing about paper journals which always disappointed me is that I was only able to write to my teachers. From 1992-1995, the technology had not yet advanced. We were just getting computers into our classrooms. I would like to thank the people who have invented blogs. Then, I suppose, before the intrusion of American Online, the online would was a much more courteous and decourous place. At least that is what experienced online people say. Then I learnt to refine my technique through e-mail, message boards and forums, over the years of Internet use.

And I’ll have to tell Chloe that she’s on your “watch list,” Anne!

I do appreciate your kudos very much.

Why, thank you. Liz, thank you for the nice invitation to be on a blogging panel. I suppose Lani, Anne and I could be on it. It is good to see the priorities of female bloggers examined. Not to be compared to man bloggers, but we do have a different style. Liz, it may fall into my holidays, but it may be term-time again (I am a writing student at a TAFE which is like a community college where you live. I am instructed at university-level in some courses.).

Thank you for saying something about my book review. I have not read much more of the book due to other circumstances afoot in my life, but I am sure I shall have a captive audience next time I do. Right now I am reading the Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. This is such a play on the conventions of literature.

Main BlogHer site:

http://surfette.typepad.com/blogher/

July 28-29 2006