One of the angels mentionned below  has really come of age on the internet with a beautiful blog http://collablogatorium.blogspot.com/  with this really useful slideshare http://bit.ly/ccarlaa embedded in it. Sharing all her findings all the time.

When starting out with internet tools, the very first think is to write down all of the sites you use with the login and password. Never ever ever think you will remember that one. The day you want to show someone – and it’s not the password you thought it was – is sooooo frustrating.

When I first joined EVO, in 2007, it took me more than 3 weeks to really believe the people I was writing to and even speaking to on WizIQ, elluminate and _______?_____ were really  real people. I mean it is a bit odd (for a French person at least) to “speak” to people you don’t know. With a sort of undercurrent of the-aim-is-to-become-well-know-and-make-a-maximum-of-contacts.

But, hang on a minute… maybe, apart from Adam Love of Twibes, that undercurrent was purely a personal construct.

Anyway, I was able to start with my class when I realised that nobody cares what I,  Elizabeth Anne, puts on the internet 😉

The story to encourage my students to dare to write on their blog or wiki goes as follows:

You never say “I’m not going into town incase I meet someone I know” – and you know that, when you do go into town, very occasionally you do bump into someone… well the same goes for the internet. No one, except a very limited number of people who know you already, are actually going to be interested enough to read what you “say”.

So there we have it… 3 years later, I am trying to practise what I preach 🙂