Thought I would also take the opportunity to tell you that I’ve been blogging over our work blog: http://elearningaustralia.net.au/blog
It’s be great if you could leave a comment for the students to read!

I see blogging for eLA as one of the ways I can achieve my number 4 New Years Resolution Goal. Another way I’ve been participating more online, is by being part of the twitter365 on Flickr. It’s where you take a picture of yourself each day of the year, and upload it to the group. I’ve done it religiously, except for the days we were overseas. I could have easily gone through and added a photo of me from each day, but have decided to just blank out all those days. I am therefore only really up to day 30-something, even though we’re half way through March…

I would love to know how YOU connect with people online! Let me know in the comments.

Here’s a slideshow of everyone’s photos, and below, a slideshow of just mine.

All:

Me:

My theme for 2009 is: Priority.

I’m sick of doing pointless things, and wasting time. This year I am taking life seriously, and making the most of the time I have. It also involves segregating certain aspects of life- not letting work take up all my time, and not letting the internet take too much time either.

1. Focus on God. I probably say this every year, but I am serious about it now. Luke and I are going on a pilgrimage to Israel in less then two weeks, which will be a great kick start to the year.

2. Love. Spend more time with Luke, just us, spend time with family, and making sure I let people know that I love them. Letting LOVE exude from my character, and showing love even to those people who annoy me. I need to make love a priority in life.

Also, to let work be work and life be life. I work at my parent’s house, so it’s really quite hard to sometimes just ‘hang out’, and it’s easy, because it’s so close, to just spend lots of time there working, and not enough time with Luke.

3. Tell the truth. I like to make stuff up, so this year I’m going to make sure I always tell the truth, even when I’ve done the wrong thing.

4. Be more involved online. I want to spend more time networking, both with my eLearning work, and my personal stuff. This means making the effort to comment on more blogs, maintain my ela blog, bookmark in delicious, post photos to flickr and deviant art, and stay active in twitter, and my personal blogging. I’d also like to make this blog reflect more a ‘whole’ of me- not just the personal side of me.

I’m making a good start to it by being involved in the group twitter365 on flickr.

5. Be healthier. Loose some weight, eat whole foods, exercise regularly, etc. etc. I’m going to go for walks with Pepper, and if I don’t do that, then spend some time on the wii fit. This last month I’ve actually been a lot better at it, so here’s hoping that January is better still!

6. Focus of photography. I’ve found a great site that gives you assignments every week, so I’m going to try to be part of that more, and really learn more about how to increase my skills and knowledge, and learn some new techniques. This means being a regular on Deviant Art, and learning from my photographer friends, like Cam.

So those are my main goals. This year I hope to update monthly on how they’re going, and review them. I also want to spend time doing more crafts and painting if I get the chance, and some more money.