"Because to blog is to teach yourself what you think"....when I first read this I didn't give it much thought, obviously. I didn't see myself in the "blogging world". I just learned about blogging when our minister at church said he was going to post blogs of the sermon. Now I am doing this class that ask me to create a blog post.
The whole idea of blogging is like I used to do in college many moons ago...writing in a journal. I even made the jump to typing in a journal when I got married...again, many moons ago. I haven't visited the journal idea in a long while and actually do miss it, but life has taken a different turn and my time is eaten up with other things. So...." because to "write" is to teach yourself what you think" might be a stretch for me, but getting feedback isn't really a huge desire. I just like to clear my mind. I don't think I need others to fill me with ideas or thoughts, "responses, replies, things to consider" in the process, but one never knows if it would help, so I will try it.
The risky part of the teach yourself what you think is a fundamental concept of not knowing what you think. I don't float around in this world without a paddle in the boat. I know where I am going and getting there is the challenge at times as life throws a few curve balls now and then.
So here is to this concept of blogging. In his blog post "Why Teachers Should Blog," Shelly Blake-Plock argues that all teachers should be bloggers. After reading his post, do you agree or disagree? Why?
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I don't necessarily disagree at this point, but understand Shelly's point about. The next sentence kind of sums up my idea about the confronting something that I have created myself......"And sometimes what we think embarrasses us and we must then confront our thoughts and consider whether there are alternatives." This does allow us to grow or dig a deeper hole to stay in. I am somewhere in the middle I suppose. Raised old-school, raising kids old-school in hopes of raising a Modern-Day Knight in my son...been a slow process thus far. So allowing me to "grow" might mean I am going to need to confront the alternatives in life, but I am not good at that because I know where I am going and don't want things to steer me in a different direction. Time will tell.
