I treated myself to a little Christmas present this year after reading Silvia’s post on how she published her blog. Actually minutes after reading her blog I went to work creating my own. I spent a few hours designing the front and back and then send in my order here. I had the option of printing portions of my blog or the entire blog. I choose to print it all beginning from my first post in Feb. 2005 to Dec. 23, 2007. 424 pages and over 500 posts. I decided to go cheap and print it in black and white. The price difference was $23 for B/W to $130 for full color. It’s actually quite amazing that 3 years of learning translates into 424 pages. Not that it represents all learning but is one representation. Certainly you realize as you scan the pages, the lack of links, comments and multimedia takes away much of my learning. But anyway, here’s a look at the finished product:
Nice, professional publishing and fast shipping, even to Canada. While don’t advocate the need to put into print your digital work, just like the odd photo, it’s nice to have the physical evidence and opportunity to put learning in a more familiar, traditional context. If nothing else to demonstrate to those who don’t really understand digital publishing. After my 9 year old saw it, she suggested perhaps she pursue blogging to a greater degree.
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Very cool Dean! I like your daughter’s response. Even though we live in a digital age, it is amazing and reassuring to see what effect a physical and tangible item has on us still. Hmm, gives rise to a thought – personalized school yearbooks? A few common pages with the rest drawn from a student’s electronic portfolio (personal and professional). Or to take a different approach, a wiki yearbook that is contributed to throughout the year and published electronically and in print on demand.
Hope your future blogging is as fruitful as your past three years!
Cheers,
John Martin
Sandwich, NH USA
First, I was just wondering about the possibilities for archiving blogs so thanks for sharing this. Secondly, I love the personal portfolio/yearbook ideas that John has shared. Keep us posted on these ideas.
Just browsing the internet. You have a very, very interesting blog.
I’m also wondering if producing your blog into a book might be good for those who don’t get the amount of learning, communicating, etc. that we get from working in these ways. For example, it would be great for administraotr’s, etc. that I work with to see this volume of print as a way of justifying the time that I spend learning on my blog. Online it is hard to see the volume that is produced, in a book, the learning is more “weighty” and easier to show.
Wow Dean, just recently a friend (Diane Cordell) was lamenting that her district would not accept her blog as time spent in professional development. I wonder if they would have denied it had she produced a book like this. WOW!
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