Only Connect

The recent appearance of a couple of Kiwi edublogs (Kia ora Lisa and Derek) has provided the catalyst required to activate my very own blog with this—drum roll, please—my inaugural post.

For me life lurking in the blogosphere has been about:

• connecting with new and challenging concepts,


• connecting related concepts,


• connecting with original-thinking people, and


• connecting my colleagues with relevant information.

Hence the title of this blog—Only Connect—in which I hope (apologies to E.M. Forster) to connect prose with my passion for education and live in isolation no longer.

(Coincidently Only Connect is also the title of a paper on computer-mediated communities and community networks).

So here begins my more active participation in the edublog community, documenting and reflecting on these connections…