Blogging?

Blogging is something I never thought about doing or had much interest at all.  I've read a few educational blogs and since I love baking I've also ran across a few of those as well.  But I've been a person to "follow" someone and check up on them to see what's new in a person's blog.  For the most part I've kind of just stumbled across these blogs.  Some of them have been interesting and others not so much.  One common aspect I've found is that the baking blogs I enjoying reading are the ones that have great pictures that help to tell a story like my baking addition.  

Peachy Blueberry Pound Cake

I've never been the best writer and whenever I write some it takes a while for me to be satisfied with my work because I am constantly going back to reword sentences and look for synonyms for over used words.  So this whole notion of writing for the world to read or not read is slightly unnerving.  What if no one cares about my reflections and thoughts about my lessons and professional life?  I guess such is life everyone won't like or even appreciate everything, but that doesn't mean you have to stop writing.  I feel as though if I keep this blog professional then that will set me up for success when or if I decide to create another blog.  

Since I no longer have a classroom of my own I was thinking about writing a blog for my colleagues.  I push into six different classrooms a week between third and fourth grades.  I believe it would be interesting to reflect on the lessons that I co-teach with those teachers.  I'm sure serious academic conversations would come up among the grade levels.  

Having my students blog is still some what of challenge I feel.  As of yesterday I still have students that lock themselves out of the computers because they haven't mastered typing in their username and passwords.  So, right not I feel as though having them blog wouldn't be beneficial.  On the other hand I have confidence in
 them because I know that they can handle the thinking skills it takes to blog.  The students that I would with on a daily basis would be able to reflect on explain their thinking to others.  Maybe a class blog might work for them.  I have a sense that it may be something to keep thinking about.