Blog Newbie Writes her First Blog Post

Hello Readers!

I can now answer yes, to a question I thought I would never answer yes to,"Do you have a blog?" Why yes, I do! 

     

I have read a few blogs. Stumbled upon them as I google searched for advice on parenting issues, specifically parenting an athlete. I wonder if I have read blogs when googling for educational advice and simply not identified them as blogs! 

Although I write on this keyboard everyday to communicate, I never thought of myself as a "writer." It's not that I don't think I have experiences worthy of sharing with the public, I have never considered myself a gifted writer. My writing craft is not very colorful or witty. I hope this form of written expression opens a door of creativity inside of me. I appreciate creativity and admire those who seem to have a gift to create the novel or express things in a new and inspirational way. 

   

The casual forum of a blog might relax me enough to simply write and share meaningful experiences without feeling the burden of having to write with clever literary devices! As I feel my personal roadblocks to writing lifting, I can't help but hope that my students will also feel them lifting if they become bloggers!

I went back over this, my first blog, and made changes suggested in The 12 Dos and Don'ts to writing a blog by Brian A Klems. I added links, shortened paragraphs, added images, and fixed a few grammar errors! Blog one in the can and it did not hurt.