Here I am, back at TCEA one year after creating this, my first blog, and there are only 6 (this makes 7) posts. What can I say…I have no excuse. I was so fired up when I created this that I was SURE I’d be making weekly, if not daily, contributions to the blogosphere, but I guess real life got in the way.

That’s not to say that I haven’t learned a LOT from and about blogging in the past year. I have become a blog-lurking junky. I have subscribed to several educational blogs that I read religiously. In fact, I use Bloglines to subscribe to my favorites, and I installed the Bloglines Notifier so I can read them as soon as their authors update them!

This has been an amazing year in the advance of technology in education…or at least I’m more aware of the advances. Social bookmark sites such as del.icio.us have changed the way we share resources; flickr has changed the way we share photos; wikis such as pbwiki have changed the way we collaborate; not to mention video sharing and podcasting! Wow!

Some days I feel like a sponge, just soaking up as much knowledge as I can. Other days, I feel like the sponge is saturated. But every day, I am amazed by the huge community of teachers and learners, adults and children, who are taking part in this vast world which has become known by some as Web 2.0.

So, here I am, back at TCEA a year later, making a new commitment to be more than a lurker; to become a contributor. We’ll see how it goes.