You guys are stars!

Just wanted to pop by and say how thrilled I am to see that you've got this blog up and running. I will be really interested to see how you go with it.

Julia & Pam: I have taken away your privileges on the course blog, but you are still able to cut and paste anything on the blog that you want to put here.

I will leave the course blog open to you all. If you want to unsubscribe from the course blog or email group, feel free to do so any time.

I am going to bow out as a contributor because I feel it is really important you own and run this blog - I'm so bossy, I'm afraid I'll take over things. But I will subscribe to the blog and comment all the time. But before I go, just a comment about a couple of things.

1. Be very careful about confidentiality. New Zealand is a very small place, and it would be relatively easy to work out who you are talking about, even if you use false names, so be mindful of that when you are talking about your day-to-day practice.

2. Have a think about how you can share resources, other than linking to them when you come across them. For example, you may all want to get a Delicious account and tag any thing you read about 'reflection' and 'ePortfolios'. That way you can keep an eye on what everyone else is reading about these topics.

3. Add a statistics tool to the blog so you can see who's coming to the blog - something like http://www.statcounter.com

4. Get a feedburner account and add a widget that allows people to subscribe by email - if you want a hand with that, let me know.

I'm off to spread the word to my network about this exciting new blog.

cheers Sarah