Blogging is fun. Teaching is fun. If you have something that you want to say and want to tell everyone who cares to read what you type because of what is boiling, bubbling and frothing away in your brain, then why not reach a global audience? The Internet and World Wide Web is full of apps and websites to exploit at your disposal. As a tutor/teacher and wanna be lecturer, like I wish..ha ha, I certainly blog away. Recently, I have been composing a thesis on blogging and its usefulness for teaching and learning. I read in one of the learned documents I downloaded that teachers as well as tutors, lecturers and trainers can exploit the blog as a teaching tool for our students or trainees or anyone in the anonymous Internet who wants to learn something useful.
Just a bit about what is a blog and what is blogging. At its simplest, a blog , which is shortform for weblog, is a regularly updated website, well a mini website, that can either be used for personal use, business need or any other need to talk about something or tell something, like this blog. It is like an online diary or journal, but people use blogs for all manner of stuff. They aren't by any measure private, , well they are on the Internet which is a global public place. They are usually created for an audience. they are usually relaxed and comfortable. Blogging is just the the process of creating blog posts like this one and the other posts I have on my blogs, and then publishing them. Blogging often is about sharing long-form or short-form articles on any subject. There are no hard and fast rules on what you post on a blog.
Why should an educator by any definition create a blog? Well, there are clever and pertinent answers to the question. Actually, you can share hyperlinks for resources for your student's learning if you are using a a separate teacher's blog. It is a great place for you to link with your students' blogs and the class blog using hyperlinks. Blogging allows shy students who don't want to say anything in the classroom to voice their thoughts on your blog. Your teacher's blog can be a place to showcase exemplary and successful class projects, ideas and pictures taken on field trips. It is also a place for you to share lesson plans. lesson ideas, projects and reflections with your fellow educators. Blogging is also a great way to improve your reading skills. When you are reading blogs, you are improving your reading skills. You are actively synthesizing information and thinking critically about them. Besides those, when you write blog posts you are building a library of posts which people can browse through and gain information, ideas and insights. You are in effect serving others just s they serve you with their blogs. You can visit my other blog which is a library in itself: https://the-eclectic-tutor.blogspot.com/
A blogger can his or her blog into a forum for global citizenship. Every blog is a on a global wide public place called the Internet. You are a global citizen. I myself have an audience from many countries and that make feel proud that anonymous people are reading what I post on my blog. A an educator you are keeping ahead of your students. Because you can see their difficulties, apprehensions, desires and interests clearly on a blog. A blog allows an educator to showcase his or her students' work as the educator's work as well. An educator can post explanations to queries and doubts. An educator can post assignments on a blog.
So whether you are an educator, student or a lay person you know know something about something important. Happy Blogging.
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