A blog's continuing silence

If there are any followers to this blog, its extended silence (two full months) should be a sign that it hasn’t yet succeeded in finding its voice. The Online Learning Environments unit of the Mofet Institute has been very active during these past two months. It has conducted numerous Webinars on a wide variety of topics, in addition to workshops designed to provide teacher educators with digital tools they can incorporate into their instruction. But the blog has been silent.

The blog was envisioned as a tool to bring information about various OLE-initiated activities to English speaking educators. We in Israel have learned a great deal from the English language research we read. In turn, we’re convinced that our experience here as well can be instrumental in furthering the topic of ICT integration in teacher education. Of course presenting this information to the world requires translation, but that’s perhaps the easy part.

When we report here – primarily on our Webinars – our objective isn’t only to advertise ourselves. We want to share our experience, to contribute our own experience to a growing, worldwide, repository. Until now, however, we haven’t found the proper balance between sharing our insights from various sessions (and in that way also hopefully initiating discussion) and simply reporting on past (and sometimes future) activities.

We’re still trying. And we’re hopeful that we’ll succeed, and that readers will find this forum useful.