Warning, this blog is a place where I can allow my brain to go every and nearly any direction it wants at any time. I may never complete a thought or I might write on about it for way longer than any other person could possibly be interested.
Okay, I want to blog, or write or communicate or something, but really don't know how to use this medium yet. So I am doing it so I can learn how to do it. I am scared I will write something I will regret letting other people see and so many would then say, well then why write in a blog? Duh! Right? Because I have gotten so much from other people who take the risk and communicate their great ideas. And risk the comments good and bad. I need to figure this out for myself and how and if I want to blog in the future. I need space to ramble, to gather, let lose, and then gather again my thoughts, other peoples' thoughts and any ideas that happen to fly through my brain space. I will talk about anything that occurs to me that is interesting or I want to write here to coalesce my thinking.
I just remembered that a huge part of why I am doing this is so that I can use blogging in my classroom. Not a place I want to tread unless I have a decent grasp of the technology. How do I deal with privacy and basic correct usage of the internet by my students? There is all sorts of stuff written about this in the blogosphere, and I will need to reread it and find more of it, but here I am doing it to see how it works. I am crazy to think about this my first year teaching, but what better year to try risky seeming stuff? Everything I do will feel risky this year. Why do...what was my thought? Oh well. Signing off, hopefully to return...unless I get distracted.
