A Glorious Failure
This is the last post on this blog. It’s been an interesting journey, but ultimately didn’t achieve what I wanted it to. A failure, then, in some ways. But a learning experience nonetheless. Why didn’t it work as I’d hoped?
I think the best way to put it is that it wasn’t organic. From the outset, I tried to put together a group of people to participate in the project very much on my own terms. I was excited to work with people from different contexts and countries, but to round up a group on the internet, arbitrarily, and to set up fairly rigid guidelines for setting up linked blogs was, in hindsight, not the best way forward. Consequently, participation has been very limited, with most barely getting past the first post.
What I have learnt is that there are many great blogs out there already, and rather than starting a community from scratch is is better to join them with some worthwhile content of your own. So that`s what I’m hoping to do over at
http://www.livesofteachers.com/
Please get over and have a look soon..
