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My First Sweet Blog

It is the day after Easter, I find myself sitting in a room with fellow educators attending a seminar-workshop with the topic Blogging 101. Blogging is a bit familiar to me before this day, although I read and scan other people's blogs and not participate at all and now I can be one of them. On a day when some people still have hang-overs after a long vacation and here I am exercising my brains on something new thinking what have I gotten myself into? I reminded myself that I am in a seminar – workshop, looking for its meaning in the dictionary: Seminar - a form of academic teaching, at a university or offered by a commercial or professional organization, in small groups where students are requested to actively participate during meetings. A workshop is also a gathering or training session which may be several days in length. It emphasizes problem-solving, hands-on training, and requires the involvement of the participants. So both activities involves active participation, so here ...