Too many online accounts?

Do I need a profile on Google+? We are an Office365 school so I have had very little to do with Google accounts apart from the calendar which I use ALL the time, and looking at Googledocs my son or daughter send me, because they are in a Google school.  I'm quite illiterate when it comes to circles and posting my new blog (only being doing that a week!) on my Google account. I need to Google Google and find out how it all works. Do I need it? I have Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, my photos backup to Dropbox, although I do like what Google did to a couple of my photos when I backed some up to there - makes me look quite the professional photographer!

This led me to thinking about all the different accounts I have for things which sent me into a spin. Dropbox for this, email for that, Yahoo, Google, Office365, work, personal... you get the idea.

So where to from here? I feel I need to make a list of all the accounts, work out which are for work and which are for home, then delete most of them! Making sense of all of them is crazy.  And still the question - do I need to have a profile on Google+??

Connected Educator Week

This week has been a week to try and get myself into the habit of writing a blog.
I am frequently on Facebook and Twitter to increase my knowledge and to help my students, but a blog has always eluded me. Maybe now is the time.
I was thinking about what would be the best use of a blog for me and how it would benefit me and my teaching. So... the answer to this is: To be able to collate information and also to reflect on it and decide if it is going to be of use to me in the future.

Firstly, some things that I can't do without...

• Feedly - Where would I be without my Feedly? To be able to have all the reading I do in one place has been fantastic. I can skim through articles and keep them all in one place - love it! And just today they announce you can share a Feedly collection - must look into that as well.
• Twitter - Really enjoying having a Tweetdeck - couldn't be without it. I am not into having every tweet notification on my phone - it would never stop, but I do like being able to look though specific feeds that I have chosen and then read relevant articles.
• Facebook - what a great way to communicate with students. I have none on my personal page, but I run many groups for school and find that 90% of students get more information from FB than from any notice I put up at school. The other 10% still need the notices and we have to be aware that not everyone is on FB, but it is a powerful tool.

Things I've been doing...

• Enjoying getting my portfolio up to date with MyPortfolio - such a great tool and so easy to get things together. Really like being able to keep my PD and CV up to date. I love using it for moderation as well.
• Getting the School of Apps up and running - it's been a great ride. Learning all about the Digital Technology Standards, setting up an innovative learning environment and running a class like no other I have ever run. I love it. Having a job where I can build things is the best I could ask for.
• Starting my blog as part of Connected Educators #EdBlog Challenge. Week 1 on the way.

Things I'd like to do...

• Go to this conference! It sounds like me... leadership, creativity and innovation - I would love this. *sigh. Hopefully they stream some of it :) http://www.icieconference.net/
• Keep building new things. I am always looking for new things to challenge me and always wanting to learn. A blog is just another step in my path.