My initial thoughts on blogging, before I started my own
teacher blog, was that it was mainly for people younger than myself who grew up
typing most of their thoughts and actions on a computer. These personal airings
in cyberspace are publicly for the whole world to see, and most of them are not
so much for the betterment of the world.
The course has changed my mind a little bit in that I can
see if I can pick the few ‘needle out of the haystack’ of blogs out there, I
might be able to get some useful professional information from them.
I will use my blog to communicate my wonderful successes,
and probably my epic failures as well, to other educators who want new,
innovative, child appealing lessons to use in the classroom. I hope to help our
students open their minds, reach beyond their current bubble of knowledge, and
discover that learning isn’t just hard, but can also be fun and desirable.
My blog posts will probably be mostly just professional communications.
I’m not one to keep a hand written diary, much less a public one on the world
wide web . I’m always amazed that there are so many people out there that seem
to have SO much time on their hands to sit for hours spilling their souls out
into their computer, and publicly to the whole world. I’m not knocking that at
all, but I don’t seem to have enough hours in my day to complete the things
that I have to get done to try to do a good job, much less endless hours to sit
at my computer.
I really am hopeful that I can connect with other elementary
teachers that have a feeling of friendship and would like to communicate with
me as well as others to help each other out with ideas and solutions for
teaching our students.
I hope my blog doesn’t get limited by my time constraints,
and that I do find other educator friends out there that I don’t know now who want
build a larger network of friends to bounce ideas off of, and encourage each
other that we CAN make a difference in the lives of children we come in contact
with.
Maybe the more I blog the faster and easier it will become
and I will eventually see that it isn’t as time consuming as I see it to be
right now.
