What Were You Doing 5 Years Ago?

I read an article about the merits of using twitter in the classroom. It talked about the possibility of adding global communication into projects. I can't say that my twitter account does much more than automatically record when I post here or at my Flickr account. I have found the ability to search live interesting on a few occasions.

Still, I'm more of a blogger. The article continued that blogging never really caught on among educators simply because it takes a great amount of time and fortitude to do it. How true! Yet, how very special I am! I like being told or telling others how special I am. Maybe that alone is what makes me so good at this silly craft.

I probably write as much for myself as others. I mean, I like stepping back to see what I was doing in the past. Of course I have lots of it, past that is. I have documented many things done before blogging. For example, most trips abroad and most overseas work experience have dedicated blog pages at my eJournal and images. My very first job after college was teaching for a few years in Kuwait.

More than that, blogging allows me to recount a bit of what I was thinking during my blogging era. For example, five years ago this week, I was mostly concerned with getting an extended visa for Sri Lanka from Ottawa, the advent of social networking, and my new GPS.