Kicking off

Right, so here goes my first post. It’s not even the first, really, because I have deleted two old ones I had written a couple of months back, before abandoning the project altogether to open another blog in Blogger.

I’m still very much a Blogger person but I kind of like trying new blog hosts to see what they have to offer, how they differ from each other, what they have in common. This hands-on is actually very important as it helps me to choose the best platform to work with in different situations, blogging alone or with my students.

Last year I tried Multiply, which is really much more than a blog, and it was really fun. The problem was that sometimes, for no apparent reason, a post would take forever to load, and broadband connection has made me very impatient with slow-loading pages…

This time I first tried Edublogs, a host I hadn’t used yet. I signed up and they promised they would send a password to my email address, which never happened. I tried to sign up again (perhaps they hadn’t really registered it the first time?) but the message said the email and username had already been taken. Of course they had, it’s just that I couldn’t access them!

So it was back to WordPress. I know a lot of people who are huge fans, so I thought I should bring Tangram back to life. I guess it’s going to be a blog about creating a blog…

In case you’re curious about my other blogs (yes, I’m afraid it’s quite addictive), here’s the list:

Project Platypus - the blog I keep with/for my students

Movie Reviews - part of my master’s project

Tangram - the twin blog, where I post bits and pieces which, hopefully, will make sense when seen together…