Old Blog - Singapore 2007

I have just had a trip down memory lane viewing our family blog from 2007. We moved from New Zealand to live in Singapore that year.

I have found that it is still attached to the same account as this blog but under a different heading. It is like having two diaries available. Both were created with different purposes in mind and aimed at different audiences.

Take a look at our Singapore adventures on http://thecreanfamily.blogspot.com.au .

To be honest the Singapore blog was driven by my husband. He was the technical guy and I had more of an editorial role. We aimed to capture our new life and share it in a form readily available to friends and family. Positives were not having to laboriously cut and paste emails to different friends and family. This also ensured that all interested parties could access the same information and we didn't miss anyone or appear to play favourites.

Knowing what I know now, our Singapore blog was blogging in its simplest form. Just photos and short descriptions of our experiences. It kept many people up to date with our adventures and is a great memory bank for our family.

Looking at it with fresh eyes I see that it would be useful in SOSE. Individuals or a class could construct a blog explaining the environment they live in. Photos and descriptions of people (with permission), places and things that make their environment special. This could be shared with classes in other countries (most of us have some point of contact for this). The other classes could reciprocate with their equivalent information.