The DSS Principal Page

Here it is, my first blog. My thanks to Mr. Carruthers and his computer class who both set me up and have been encouraging (pestering) me to get blogging. I wasn’t exactly too sure about the blog. Not long ago I didn’t know what one was. Not that I am techno-challenged, I’m on the computer all day. The computer for me though is a source of management – student files, mark programs, attendance, and so on. It is also a means of one to one communication and sometimes one to a small group with e-mail. Lastly it is a tool: scheduling, reporting, and obtaining data. The Internet is a source of information, and in a  minor way, entertainment. What it hasn’t been for me is a system of extended communication or a vehicle of interaction.

Technology has advanced so quickly that language apparently hasn’t kept up. We now invent words that previously didn’t exist: hence the blog. Is blog a noun or a verb? Do I blog or do I have a blog? Blog to me sounds much more descriptive, but I don’t think it had an adjective or adverb function (”I feel kind of bloggy today.”) Mr. Carruthers says I should hope for a lot of hits to my blog. Is this a good thing? This sounds like something I should try to guard against. But, since the blog has developed as an effective way to communicate, it is about time that I abandon the monthly Principal’s Comments and go with shorter and more relevant updates.

My fear is that I am joining too late and that next week everyone will be doing something new and I will be just getting comfortable with the blog. Next week I will attempt to continue to blog, but, by then everyone else might be plipping, or scarting or some other word that Webster’s has not yet heard of.