Comments on: Struggling

By: John Larkin

John Larkin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:30:45 +0000

Patricia, Julie and Yvonne,
Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement. I shall push on, publishing photos, reviewing sites of interest (particularly resources of use to history teachers) and teaching/learning projects.
Yvonne, forever forward it is. Than you all. Cheers, John.

By: Yvonne Osborn

Yvonne Osborn — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:07:46 +0000

Hello John,I’ve only just discovered you so I hope you don’t pack it in.I’m spending my school holidays trying to become more connected and am enjoying doing so.As a Visual Arts teacher I tried ArtsEdNet years ago but felt self conscious chatting with teachers who were mostly in the USA and seemed to all know each other.I am glad that with the advances in Technology I am now communicating through Classoom 2.0, Facebook, Twitter etc.People I’ve met so far have all seemed keen to share. Sorry to hear of your awful experience.
Thank goodness for Edublogs. I was able to begin my fledgling Visual Arts Blog and haven’t looked back.The title of my 90 year old uncle’s memoirs is Forever Forward.I hope you’ll realise there’s a lot more supportive people out there than the other sort.All the best to you for a good rest and a great year in 2009.

By: Julie Squires

Julie Squires — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:09:33 +0000

I just wanted to join the chorus of people encouraging you to keep blogging. It sounds like you’ve suffered through an awful incident. I often wonder what motivates people to write nasty stuff on the web…they usually haven’t put a lot of thought into it at all. However, you have probably reflected on their actions more than they did when writing. That’s what makes you a deep thinker; that what makes people read your blog. Time to move forward…