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.