Also on the web: 07/25/2010 (p.m.)

• The 500 blog posts that changed my life | WordCount

  An informative (and inspiring) story about how blogging helped a mother and housewife earn an independent income again.I think this would be good to share with students.

  tags: Michelle V. Rafter blogging

• Dimensions in creative work

  This post by Richard Millwood, which is essentially about one's approach to or relationship with an audience uses a creative media (film) context, but could be applied to ANY medium of presentation, even the ubiquitous PowerPoint. The text itself is too demanding for youngsters, but the slide speaks volumes.

  tags: Richard Millwood audience presentation

• You've heard of the Google 80% - 20%? How about the school 90% - 10%? - Vox

  I quite like this idea, which is an adaptation of the way Google works, applied in a school context.

  tags: hazelowen 90%-10%

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Comments

[Michelle Rafter]

Thanks for linking to my post. However, I feel compelled to add that before I was a mother and housewife I had an established career as a newspaper-trained business journalist turned freelance reporter. Don't want your readers to get the impression that I accomplished what I did with only a couple years of experience.

Michelle Rafter

[Terry Freedman, Educational ICT Consultant]

Fair enough, Michelle, and thanks for pointing that out (as you do in the original article). I was focusing more on the fact that blogging gave you some independence again, and the reason I would hope teachers would share your post with their students is that I think it would be good for them to know that the economic situation does not mean that all avenues are closed. Still, I suppose it's like everythng else: it can take years to become an overnight success.