Social media has worked its way into our daily lives. I read a lot of blogs, and I did start this one some time ago for personal writing, but I only wrote in fits and starts.
Recently, I've enrolled in an online course entitled e-Learning and Digital Cultures - the main focus for me is the "elearning" part, but I'm definitely interested in how we can use digital and social media to present courses, classes, and technical information in general.
Anyway, the course doesn't start till the end of January, but already (a month early) we students have received notices suggesting we get accounts on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Blogger or Wordpress, ... and the list goes on.
Which brings me back to this blog.
I had originally wanted to have a bit of a tech blog - I answer a lot of Word and Help questions at work as a technical writer, but work kept me busy enough and my tech ideas went into tips and tricks there (and they pay me). Which unfortunately meant that this blog has languished idly on a virtual beach waiting for a few words of wisdom to drop by.
So with my focus now on the course, the blog has been resurrected. It contains some old snippets of ideas, that may not make a lot of sense, and some lists of things that would be interesting to think and write about. I decided I may as well leave them in, even though some of the links no longer work.
Over the next few week, I'll make posts on e-Learning, social media, and technical writing, and I'll write up some new stuff about the new DSLR camera I got just around Christmas time. I'm sure a blog is exactly the sort of procrastination tool I can use instead of doing assignments.
Looking forward to the new year ...
Margaret
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