I have been struggling to work full time, attend internship full time, and manage to find time to blog. So I have been doing a lot of browsing everyone else's blogs to see how they are coming along. I am rather intrigued to see how well these blogs are coming.
I have continued to research articles on blogs through the WOU Library but there aren't as many on the specific categories I am interested in... I then started looking online. Though there are blogs everywhere, finding them on specific topics are difficult. While looking up articles on Blogging and Autism I did find one news paper article. It discussed how a mother who had a child with Autism had a difficult time until they started a blog themselves and began bringing others together. http://ezproxy.wou.edu:2066/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=88149905-e70c-4641-a561-75a3665f4126%40sessionmgr10&vid=4&hid=10
This article, and other blogs I have reviewed, showed me that it is up to us to create meaningful, helpful, and insightful blogs. If we want to start seeing blogs used for a stronger purpose than individual/personal use we need to be the ones to do it and research it so that others may benefit.
Concur. I could retreat into the realm of the taciturn and leave it at that, but will expand instead. It is easy to get absorbed in the bells and whistles of blogging and forget about content. No matter how many moving parts your blog may display, if they aren't going anywhere they are pointless. To have a quality blog requires thought and time, especially if you are using it in an education forum.
ReplyDeleteWhile there continues to be a great deal of buzz around blogs and even in this class you are encouraged to know what the bells and whistles and gadgets do, you don't need to use them. The two things that continue to surface when it comes to blogging well: read other blogs and write well on the topic of your interest.
ReplyDeleteOf course, you may use the blog as a collaborative or networking media and then the nature of the blog would change.
Again when we take the time, we find the answer.