Welcome to my blog!!

This is my first blog.
I often use blogs as an example of a way that my students can use online tools. I have even suggested and looked at blogger.com. However, this is the first time I have actually started and kept a blog.
I am actually very bad at keeping up with something like a blog. I have a problem with procrastination. I am more about the immediate, the now. Get a specific task done and move on to the next. Keeping up a blog seems like wasted time to me. Maybe this runs back to those junior high days where we had to keep a journal every day – yuck :(

I know some people find it very valuable and maybe with this specific purpose and our online community I may change my mind. As I said, I have never blogged before, it will be nice to have the actual hands-on example I can relate to my students. My students are classroom teachers. They are dealing with a lot of the new technologies like blogging, social networking, and all the web related content that is new to them but taken for granted by their students. Using these tools may help these teachers reach their students in new ways.

I am interested to learn about the new strategies and techniques for teaching online. I am in the process of transforming a course I currently teach from a hybrid course (50% onGround and 50% online in a synchronous environment) to a completely online course. I have not decided if the course will be asynch or synch (or a blend). Hopefully, through this course I will learn some specific strategies which may help me make my decisions. I am glad that this course will directly apply to my work.
I am looking forward to a great semester!!
-Stacey