He mihi
Ko Hikurangi te maunga
Ko Waiapu te awa
No Ngati Porou tōku Papa
No Te Aitanga ā Hauiti tōku Māma
no reira no Te Tairawhiti ahau.
Ko Troy Tuhou tōku ingoa.
He mihi nunui engari he mihi popoto ki a koutou katoa.
Connections are important to Māori, when being introduced or introducing ourselves we look
for links with each other. This is why we use local geographic features (of our home area), our
iwi affiliations and whanau (family) names in our pepeha or mihi.
Kia ora my name is Troy Tuhou and my family are from the
east coast of New Zealand. I am one of the Subject Librarians at Sylvia Ashton
Warner Library at the Faculty of Education, University of Auckland.
This blog marks my first attempt at writing my own blog and
is "Thing 3" of a programme that I am taking part in called "23
Things for research" it is a Faculty of Education version of the Oxford
University course 23 Things for Research and the 23 Research Things course from
the University of Melbourne.
I registered for this course as I have played with social
media but have yet to fully engage with it. Usually I start with a hiss and a
roar posting and logging in daily however eventually my enthusiasm wanes and I
forget to post, or don't log in for long periods of time. I think one possible
reason for this is that often I don't fully comprehend the particular use of
the different social media platforms another is that I often am lost for things
to say (hard to believe if you are reading this, I am sure) or don't believe
that what I have to say is of interest to anyone.
I have Facebook, Google +, Twitter, and Linked in accounts
now I am using my Blogger account.
Even though the title of this post is "First Blog"
I once wrote a blog for an assignment during my study in Information Science
and as it was for a school that doesn't exist and an invented scenario I have
decided not to count it.
I have to admit that I use Twitter badly and now only use
Facebook as a tool to help me remember birthdays and to play games.
My hope is that with a better understanding of the practical
uses for social media I can start to truly engage with the different formats
using each type more effectively and that this in turn will result in more
productive and effective communication to my colleagues and our students.
Hi Troy, Great to see you in here and trying out some of those other social media tools! I hope you find the 23 Things programme both challenging and rewarding and are able to walk away with a greater level of comfort and confidence about how many of these tools might help you in your efforts. Good luck. Cheers, Steve
ReplyDeleteHi Troy from the East Coast of New Zealand.
ReplyDeleteIt's always nice to have people reply to your very first blog and because you are part of the same group (23 Things for Research) I thought I'll pop over and say hello to all my new neighbours. HELLO. Have a great week.
Hello Troy,
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blogging world. I think blogging is a good way to reflect, to release pent up feelings, to share thoughts and to make new friends. Hope you'd enjoy blogging.
Cheers!
Troy I got a lot out of #anz23mobilethings so hope you find this equally useful. For the record, I come from Patea so my maunga is Egmont/Taranaki and my te awa is Patea. And yes, I failed my Te Reo course (again) but keep trying....
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely keep trying :) I am already finding this an interesting course and will have a play around more with the different things, like this blog and of course my twitter.
DeleteKia ora e hoa! Great to see you blogging and looking forward to sharing in your journey.
ReplyDeleteTēnā koe e hoa! Great to see some familiar faces in our 23 Things blogosphere :). Be great to hear your thoughts on the process as we go through the weeks. Nga mihi mahana, Nicoletta
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