Blogging for Teachers

"Blogging for teachers"

Using a play off of a famous quote that Rene Descartes is known for attracted my attention like a whaling siren. "I Blog, Therefore I am". Oh Angelina Karpovich, you are so witty, I like. The slightly humorous writing is shown in small antidotes throughout her piece, in the capsules of parenthesis. This style reminds me much of my style of writing and some how brings a little smile to me. I also was impressed by her usage of "big" words that were sprinkled everywhere. Even though her style was similar to mine it was clear that the level of her English usage was at the Ph.D Candidate level. Words such as "methodologies" and "Flippancy" throw my mind into an English spin cycle. I also enjoyed how she started the piece off with a little joke "A blog?...What is that, some kind of a disease?" This small direct quotation is a great way to start an article about blogging.

My second favorite title is a total blast on the idea of Blogging, appropriately entitled "Aboard the Ideological Hot air Balloon" by Nicole Converse Livengood. His beginning statements are one I would make, if I was assigned to write on something that I didn't like. His unimpressed feeling of the blogging community and calling it "the latest techno-pedagogy bandwagon" summarizes my feelings completely as well. Blogging is a trend just like the dot com businesses and such. Livengood shows this fact as well in the example of MOOing. I never even heard of MOOing. But as the article goes on, he slowly sees some value in blogging. In his own education, and his students with "Early discussions helped students to get to know one another and helped construct strong in-class bonds; many discussions gave me a sense of what had resonated in the classroom and what had not."
Like a public diary for those to afraid to use their voices.