Adventures in the Blogging World

I started a personal blog a few years to talk about what was going on in my life. It was my own little piece of the world where I could share anything I wanted. It was an extension of the journals that I kept as a teenager and the personal conversations and monologues that I have in my car. When I was given the assignment to create an education blog during summer school I thought that it would be much more difficult than my personal blog. This blog should sound more "professional" was my first thought. How could I take my personal writing style and make it sound like a graduate student? I was worried that I would not be able to get the same thoughts and emotions through if I knew that it was part of an assignment. (I never even thought that anyone was actually reading my personal blog). Once I created my first post I realized that I was being given the opportunity to show myself that my own personal feelings and experiences are "professional" enough. My thoughts and ideas about education are being molded through each of my assignments and experiences. Blogging is just another extension to these learning experiences. I have been given the opportunity to practice expressing these ideas through my blog. It has been a great experience and I will definitely continue using this blog as a forum for my educational experiences, opinions and ideas. I have learned that even if I am only writing for my eyes that the process helps me think about what I have learned and a great place just to vent.
I would love to use blogging as an assignment option for my students one day. I know that it would have some complications that needed to be worked out involving privacy issues, but it would be an interesting learning experience for my students.
The only part of this assignment that in any way hindered my learning was the fact that I did not have time to read everyone's blogs regularly. I hope to be able catch up on some of that reading during my break. I don't think that is much of a hindrance, more like a lost opportunity.

I still have one question to answer for my final blog post assignment, but I think it deserves its own post, so you can find that info in the other post from today.