After telling myself repeatedly that I would never have my own blog, I finally have a reason to start one. I love blogs; I actually keep up with quite a few on my own, and consider some of the people that I have met while reading and posting comments to be friends. There is something wonderful about knowing that there are people in the world with whom I have things in common. But I was always a little too scared to start my own blog. I didn't really want to blog about my life. First, I am not sure that I do enough things to make any blog I would write about myself interesting. Second, I value a certain amount of privacy and anonymity in my life, and having a blog felt a little too much like letting strangers into my house. But now the internal debate I have been having about starting a blog is over. I am killing two birds with one stone, completing a class assignment and getting used to a new form of media.
Creating a blog is a lot easier than I thought it would be. When I first saw the page that pops up when you want to create a blog, I was a little intimidated. New technology and I don't always get along. There is very little commitment involved with reading another person's blog, but writing a blog felt like another thing entirely. I feel like I have a responsibility to post something of quality, something other people will feel is worth reading.
But the steps to create a blog were pretty easy. I decided to stick with simplicity. I'll have more time to develop something creative after I get used to the basics. At least that made the name of my blog easy to decide on; it is just my name, followed by what the blog is about-- the 23 Things. My posting name is my own name. I just wanted to keep it simple, and easy to remember.
The best part of creating the blog so far has been creating my avatar. After playing around with her a lot, I finally decided that it would be better to leave her looking like me. I am pretty happy with who I am (most days), and dressing my avatar up as something or someone else just seemed a little silly. I might change her outfit every once in a while, or give her a new background, but the general look will stay the same. I have never been good at pretending to be someone I am not, and that part of my personality apparently extends to creating a realistic avatar.
Wow, Mary, much of your thought about blogs are very similar to mine, but as you said this is a new form of media. Also, it makes me think of myself and how I am not that well with technology either, but by the grace of God I will learn and understand and be very able to deal with technology. But, I have noticed that technology is not enforced in my home and my parents shy away from the use of computers and even when I was younger I preferred to read over a video game which greatly helped me in life, but b/c I have shunned technology for so long, I am playing catch up! I like your Avatar by the way, both you and I have the same glasses!!
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ReplyDeleteYou and I feel the same way about blogs. I remeber from having you in SPED 3000 that you are a sped ed major. Do you think blogging would be a good tool for you as this type of educator? Do you see yourself maybe using one some day?
I think that blogging is a good tool for every type of educator. It is a place where I can bounce thoughts off of other people. I think a lot about what I am going to write before I actually finish a post, so it makes me refine my ideas. It is also a great way to keep up with parents, students and other educators.
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