I will be entering early blogging retirement…as of this post. The TEFL Logue itself will remain here, but I will no longer be posting.
I’m not out of ideas. I still enjoy writing and have a lot to say about TEFL, but there comes a point in many pursuits where the cons just outweigh the pros. I have written a lot here – just over 1000 posts and 7 “pages” (see above) in about 17 months. My experience and knowledge are not that extensive, but I’ve worked hard to make posts that I felt were more than just words filling web space.
Writing and blogging are both pretty solitary, and I have especially appreciated comments from readers. Thanks. To those who have provided links to and positive feedback on my work: thanks to you too! More valuable to me than traffic is the knowledge that others I “know” from the blogosphere and respect find my work here worthwhile enough to read.
To all those of you with blogs – I know where to find you! Others can of course leave a comment here if they’d like to get in touch, or email me. I would certainly be happy to check in here every once in a while if anyone has left a question specifically for me.
It’s been nice sharing the blogosphere with you!
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Katie,
Sorry to see you go. Your insights will be missed. Let me know if you’re ever in Northern California.
Larry
Sorry to see you go. Hope you reconsider and like the phoenix rise from the ashes to write again.
I’m a recent convert but already a big fan. Good luck with all your future endeavours.
TEFL Logue is now on the new but expanding ELT World Wiki:
http://elt.wikia.com/wiki/TEFL_logue
Feel free to edit!
Katie
Big Best Wishes for the ELT World…
(got reading your blogs/writing quite recently)
Thanks for the nice words, everyone!
I’m not teaching at the moment, and while I’m not out of ideas, a break from blogging and web stuff is probably in order.
Thanks for the wiki entry on the TEFL Logue, David! It will be both interesting and a little nerve-wracking to see what people add.
Good luck with your work and/or blogging to all of you!
We’re going to miss you! You were one of our Top Ten TEFL People for 2007:
http://www.tesall.com/international/viewtopic.php?t=3214
We also crowned TEFL Logue our blog of the year for 2007:
http://www.tesall.com/international/viewtopic.php?t=3215
As you know, we frequently link to your entries from our main-page news service. We’re going to have to search longer and harder for quality links as a result of your departure.
Good luck in the future!
It’s been nice sharing the blogosphere with you too Katie. Good luck to you in whatever the future holds. Please get in touch if you’re ever traveling in southern Turkey.
Katie, you’re like a supernova. You’ve made an enormous splash in the online EFL world, and now you’re gone. I have only some song lyrics to share to sum it up.
A very good friend of mine
Told me something the other day
I’d like to pass it on to you,
Cause I believe what he said to be true
He said:
We’re here for a good time
Not a long time (not a long time)
So have a good time
The sun can’t shine everyday
And the sun is shinin,
In this rainy city,
And the sun is shinin,
Ooh isn’t a pity?
That every year has it’s share of tears,
Every now and then it’s gotta rain
And the sun is shinin,
In this rainy city,
And the sun is shinin,
Ooh isn’t a pity?
That every year has it’s share of tears,
Every now and then it’s gotta rain
You guys are too nice. Song lyrics?! Wow. And anything with “Nova” in it has kind of a funny connection to EFL!
Thanks and take care…
What? Where did that come from?? Noooooooooooo!
Hey Katie: Sorry to see you go, and thanks for your comments also - so much appreciated. It’s been a while since I visited your site - and feel bummed to catch you on the last day - it’s not like TV when you can pick up the reruns, is it? Good luck in your next project.
Katie,
You will leave a big “hole” in both my TEFL heart and EFL Classroom 2.0’s main page. Your blog feed has been a mainstay there and from the get go, I saw the intelligence, integrity and work ethic you showed there. You’ll be missed.
Please drop in at EFL Classroom 2.0 from time to time and say hello. I know how you feel about the pluses and minuses of “blogging”. But what you’ve achieved will always be there for teachers and it is a super reference.
David
http://eflclassroom.ning.com
Couldn’t comment on the blog of the person who commented above, so will go slightly off topic here and say that it is full of inaccuracies and best avoided until it is polished up.
Thanks, Alex, I had not looked at that blog and I agree with you. Hmmm…
Thanks once again to those who have left comments. I am in fact alive and well - I’m okay with my new role in the non-blogging (or slowly-blogging) world but the TEFL Logue was a good experience.
Take care!
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