I have attempted to set up and maintain a "work" blog before – as something separate from this personal blog, that would accessible to coworkers, students and parents as a way to keep records as well as a way to let students know what to do.
Previous attempts failed for multiple reasons. Not least, I wasn't ever very good at sticking to it. Yet I stick to this here personal blog pretty well. One issue is that most Koreans – who would be ALL of my audience at a work blog, basically – aren't that comfortable navigating out into the non-Korean internet. So I decided that this time, I would put the blog inside the Korean web. I am using a free blog platform provided by Naver (pronounced by Koreans to match "neighbor", hence my pun in my title). Naver is a sort of Korean Yahoo-meets-Google, a dominant internet portal with its fingers everywhere.
I worked hard, over the last 2 weeks, to transfer the existing content from the previous two iterations of my "work" blog into this new platform. It's hard to use – not least because everything is in Korean. My blog entries, of course, are in English – so you can look at it if you want. From those previous incarnations, there are actually almost 200 blog posts stretching back, inconsistently, for years. So it might be interesting to look at: a lot of minimally edited video of students practicing speeches and roleplays, etc.
Anyway, here it is: blog.naver.com/jaredway.
I will try very hard to update it every day with a "Class Blog" for each class I teach that day. I keep thinking – if I do it with my personal blog, surely I can do it with a work blog, right?
[daily log: walking, 6 km]