Blogging

I've been thinking a lot about reasons to blog and that has encouraged me to seek out other people's ideas and motivations. I've just listened to a TEDtalk by the Mena Trott. This is quite dated now (2006,I think) but she started the blogging trend and part of her vision was for people to be able to pass on their stories. She has very few old family stories that have been passed on to her through the years and she felt blogging could fill that void for people in the future.  Have a listen to her, she is entertaining!

I also read an interesting article by a guy called George Couros

He talks about the value of open reflection, the development of literacy with different mediums, student voice, and the ability to track your learning.  What was really interesting was his last reason relates to the above snip. It is developing a positive digital footprint. We probably need to be teaching children about how their blog can help them in their future.  The emphasis is on well Googled as they could just as easily have negative posts come up that they cannot get rid of!  It's a short but interesting read. http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/3721