Goodbye Blogging

I hate to actually admit it but I’m going to miss blogging. In the beginning of this course, I hated the idea of just randomly sharing thoughts. I did not want to share my feelings or comments with anyone else. I was totally against others reading what I had written and I just did not want to do it.
You hear all the horror stories of people getting stalked on the internet by others and it’s kind of scary. Though in this case I wasn’t scared of being stalked, but it still gave me pause when starting out. I also had friends who blogged and they shared everything. So I was really hesitant about blogging.
When I started I resisted the urge to enjoy this part of the course. I put it off until I had to. However as the weeks passed I started enjoying writing these things. I was able to complain about having issues with the assignments and I wasn’t the only one. One person in our chat even called us all “emo.” So it was nice that everyone was able to help each other out. I also found it interesting to look over other people’s blogs and get a sense of how they were dealing with everything. I liked that we were able to share and talk in our blogs, but it didn’t have to be personal or invasive.
In my other classes, we have always been told to write everything out in a word document before posting them on courseweb, that way in case something happens and it doesn’t post, we haven’t lost anything. I have always done this because I like having records of what I’ve done in school, especially since we have to complete portfolios for our interviews. So I started to do this with my blogs. I would type them up on word and then cut and paste them into my blog. This way if something would happen I would still have all of my blogs. Plus I was able to catch my spelling mistakes.
After this week, I am done blogging. Though I am thinking about creating a blog for my library, when I get a job. I probably wouldn’t blog for an elementary school, but I have seen it done. However, I would create a blog for a middle or high school library, to talk about things we are doing in the library or books I have read and recommend. I would want students to interact with it and to add their own comments. I think this would be a great way to involve students and to get some publicity, among students, for the library.
Even though I am going to stop blogging, at least for a while. I have really enjoyed this experience and am glad that I did it.