An Expat Educator in Asia

I had an email from Geoff Ward and Riffa Views International in Bahrain asking about blogging platforms.
This is the advice I shared. Comments welcome.
Hi Geoff,
Most people, myself included recommend Edublogs as a starter. The main reasons for this are:

James Farmer, the founder is a great guy and does all that he can for teachers
Sue Waters [...]

There was a flurry of posts on an email list I belong to last week following the ACEC08 conference in Canberra where a lot of participants in sessions were using laptops and other mobile devices to blog, twitter and otherwise connect and collaboarte during speaker sessions. A lot of the discussion centered around the ettique [...]

Yesterday I read a couple of replies on email lists to a teacher keen to start blogging with a class.
The replies and advice were so good that I wanted to record them here.
The first bit of advice comes from Anne Mirtschin, a teacher from country Victoria who gave these pearls of wisdom:

1.   Initially I would [...]

It amazes me that there is so much out there to learn. Just when you think that you are just getting organised and that it is starting to make sense to you and you are living a nice, connected life, something comes along to shake you out of your complacency. I had one of those [...]