Why Blog?

A year ago my idea of blogging entailed individuals mostly posting rants and rages about issues in the world or worse... mellow dramatic reflections of a boring, unfulfilled life. I could not image taking time out of my busy day of rearing six children and attempting to educate a group of active middle school students to read blogs, much less post one. My attitude toward blogging was the result of simple ignorance. How often do we make judgments about things that we know not of?

Today I know that blogging equates learning through connections. In this networked world, you can learn and run along side others who are searching for the same knowledge. Collaboration and sharing is the nucleus for growth, not the competitive world that we have created as we try to "up" the other. Our current economic crisis is surely a testament to the fact. Scott Leslie, author of edtechposts puts it into perspective....

"Now I contrast that with the learning networks which I inhabit, and in which every single day I share my learning and have knowledge and learning shared back with me. I know it works. I literally don't think I could do my job any longer without it- the pace of change is too rapid, the number of developments I need to follow and master too great, and without my network I would drown. But I am not drowning, indeed I feel regularly that I am enjoying surfing these waves and glance over to see other surfers right there beside me, silly grins on all of our faces. So it feels to me like it's working, like we ARE sharing, and thriving because of it."

Today I expand my knowlege at every new dawn. Today my life has value above three loads of laundry a day and getting middle school students to walk in a straight line. Today I learn. Today I blog.

This is a cross blog with my student site at Carveraig