First swim of the year down at Cudgeon Creek this afternoon. And despite a little sunburn (what was I thinking not putting on sunscreen!?!?!?), I continue to be amazed at just how I’ve learned to give-n0-fcks about going into the water. Continue reading Fat Girl Swimming …
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How many “challenges” can I do in one year?
How many challenges can I do in one year? I wish I could clone myself. Continue reading How many “challenges” can I do in one year?
Woodford 2018: 12 hours, 2 presentations, lots of yarning
This week Vernon and I headed to Woodford Folk Festival to participate in the Speakers and Ideas stream curated by Michael and Ludmila Doneman of Edgeware Creative Entrepreneurship. Continue reading Woodford 2018: 12 hours, 2 presentations, lots of yarning
Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up – My work-in-progress notes
What’s Blog June?
For the oddest reason, I seem to fail at my own Deadly Bloggers 52 Week Blogging Challenge (1 post each week for 52 weeks), but #blogJUNE (1 post per day for 30 days) seems possible. Don’t ask me. I’m just odd. Continue reading What’s Blog June?
Clearly … purple is my favourite colour!
Why I began blogging?
One of the participants last week at the Queensland Indigenous Youth Leadership Program, asked me why I began blogging.
But really, the answer to the question is, I began blogging for business. I wanted to share ideas about Indigenous education that I felt were being missed. I mean, it’s easy to talk to a group of pre-service teachers, but once they’ve graduated? It’s much hard to capture them. The odd after-school professional development session doesn’t really help people who know so little.
I had built websites from templates before Eddie’s talk. The first I probably built in the very early 2000s. It looked terrible. I continue (mostly) to build my own. I care less for the look of a site, than I do for the site’s organisation of information and the quality and usefulness of its content.
Why do I blog now? I still blog for business, but on this space in particular, I blog for myself. I rarely tweet out what I’ve written, I don’t count or measure the statistics. And the odd person or two eventually finds their way here.
Here. I blog for me.
Update: I was cleaning up the categories on Deadly Bloggers, and found this post I wrote in 2012. It relates.
Blog Maintenance
You may have noticed I’ve done a bit of blog maintenance this past weekend. I think the end result is way to busy and not clear, but I think it will evolve as I sit with it more over the next few days. Continue reading Blog Maintenance
A bit of Saturday maintenance
Deadly Bloggers Challenge 2013
During the second last half of the year it occurred to me that I needed to be blogging more. My output for 2012 was decidedly lower than in the previous years. I look at folks like Anita Heiss – a prolific blogger – and I cringe at my efforts. Continue reading Deadly Bloggers Challenge 2013