Welcome to the Papyrus News blog!
I first started the Papyrus News email list on September 6, 1999 and published it regularly for our years. In 2003, I took a break from editing the list, and asked a colleague, Steve McCarty, to take over for a while. Steve has edited the list for more than a year, and I thank him deeply for his valuable contribution.
I am now ready to resume managing Papyrus News, and have decided to convert it into a blog format. I hope that, with the comments section of the blog, this will allow more feedback and interactivity among readers than could occur in the one-way email list that I made use of before.
The content of the blog, as with the original Papyrus News list, will focus on whatever I happen to find of professional or personal interest. Largely that will revolve around the intersection of information and communication technologies with language and literacy development, education and school reform, culture, and diversity and equity. But, as always, I reserve the right to comment on other topics of interest.
Due to my busy schedule, I will probably write for the blog irregularly. So don’t expect constant updates. Also, note that I will no longer publish frequent lists of links. However, I will occasionally invite readers to post their own links in the comments portion of the blog. So if you have an interesting link for Papyrus News readers, don’t email it to me. Just wait until I invite links to be posted, and then add your link under comments (if you put in a URL in the comments, it will automatically be hotlinked once it’s published).
Thanks, and welcome aboard!
Welcome back, Mark! I will look with interest at this new format.
Great idea! I’m looking forward to it! Welcome back!
Welcome to blogosphere, Mark and it´s good to see Papyrus has been modernized and made interactive. Looking forward to reading you. I will syndicate it and add it to my blogroll.
Warm regards from Brazil,
Bee
Welcome back from a fellow UCSC ‘banana slug’ alumnus. It is great to see an interactive component added to technology ventures. It’s a great idea!
Subscribed! I’m glad to see Papyrus in blog form.
Welcome back to Cyberland, Mark. We missed you!
I’ll be following your blog with interest and perhaps sending you links or news items from time to time. I’m also interested to see how well this means of communication works.
Yookoso! Glad you’re back into it Mark, and looking forward to reading and contributing, from time to time. I am interested to help take the Papyrus community in a new direction via this blog.
(And send us some California sun!..)
Thanks, Mark, for taking this wonderful community to a new platform for a new experience of communication! Pity that my China colleagues couldn’t get on this yet, but I’m lucky now at New York. So I’ll follow along and learn anew 🙂
Hi Mark!
It’s excellent to see you back. Best wishes for the blogging.
Great to have you back, Mark. And best of luck! Mercedes
It is great to meet you all here! I am so happy to see you back, Mark. Susana