Why this blog?

My reasoning for choosing this blog platform is quite simple, it seemed the easiest to start with.  I have seen and read some amazing looking blogs and the thought of starting at that level scared me.  Many of the blogs I have read have started on a platform such as this and at some point moved over to something a little fancier.

So far I am happy with my blog platform choice.  Blogger is easy to use and I think it looks nice.  It feels no different than when I use a word document.

I have toyed with the idea of starting a blog to make connections with other teacher librarians out there before. My only problem was on what to write about. I always thought that I would eventually start a blog when I had my own classroom and simple blog about the activities (good or bad) that took place.  I figured there would always be plenty to talk about and even if I have a few posts about how badly a lesson went the worst that could happen would be that no one reads it, but the best would be that not only did someone read it- they also have some advice for me.

I do love reading other teachers blogs and finding ideas to use in my own classroom and I do feel that having my own blog would help with conversations with these other teachers.  One of the posts that I see often are these "tagging" posts.  The blogger will have either a theme or a set of questions to answer and then they "tag" a few other bloggers to do the same. I have always liked these posts because not only do you get to know the main blogger you already follow a little better but your find new bloggers to check out based on the "tags".

I also like the idea of a blog as a way of staying in touch with my students' and their families.  I would like to have a blog that shows off what has been going on in the library but also I want to be able to share thoughts about the books I am reading.  I have students ask me about what I have read or that I am reading and a blog would be a great way to let them know if they didn't have time to ask or if they were just too shy to ask.  I think a book review type blog would be where I start when I start a school library position.

The only problems I have found with blogs is keeping up with them.  I sometimes end up following too many and I don't have the time to read through them all.