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Hi everyone, this is me, Jill Lyall and also a favourite image I pinched from cyberspace - I think it expresses the whole finding a balance thing quite nicely. I teach at Central TAFE in Perth WA and I am quite open about the fact that I am UNCO and horribly ignorant when it comes to all things technological, but that doesn't stop me from stubbornly persisting past normal human endurance.

I congratulate myself and everyone else who has done it on getting the Twitter badge on to this space, but I have that feeling you have when you are learning to swim - kind of like I am in deep water, kicking my legs and arms madly, just hoping to stay afloat, and feeling exhilarated that I haven't drowned yet! For some reason Twitter isn't coming through on my mobile which is a pda - I've done all the steps as directed but still nothing. No doubt there is one other step which I didn't quite get.

And this is before I even get to think about what uses are there for Twitter in my teaching world?? I can see it's a great way to get short sharp messages through to a group of people - but what is the advantage over txt messaging? Maybe someone might already be using it - tell us all about it - I'd love to see some examples!

A colleague and myself have started a College blog for lecturers within our organisation to share experiences. We don't have much happening yet but you might want to add your comments to some of our posts. The link is:

http://learning.centraltafe.wa.edu.au/elearning/blog/

To make a comment you will need to register, from the link in the column on the left.

Some days later: Apparently there were some problems registering on the above blog - now all fixed. Also not knowing the ins and outs of blogging I had the blog set to being closed for comments, when I wanted people to be able to comment without registering. I have now opened the comments for anyone to take part without registering, but if you wanted to register it is now possible!