I am both excited and a bit nervous. Far more excited, than nervous - but the technology of all this is totally new to me. I don't know how to change my blog design beyond the already prepared templates that are provided here. That's one of my first new learning objectives - because I want a cute blog too! I have to figure out how to - I started to list here what I need to learn, but that's just depressing; it's so, so much.
As for the excited part - I "discovered" teaching blogs last spring, and have spent the summer stalking as many as I could find. I don't know how I missed this for so long! Yes, really I do. I've read, been directed too, looked at blogs (not teaching blogs!) and thought, "Eh." I never saw the joy, excitement, FUN that others saw. And I am a voracious reader. Really, I read all the time. Probably to the detriment of my health - I should get up and exercise more. My mother tells everyone about how I would read the cereal boxes every morning at the breakfast table. I even remember the first word I learned to read, "Texaco." Really. It's true. We were driving across country to visit family one summer, and at every town we saw the same sign. I learned to read and spell that single word on that trip. I was a proud little bug! My point is that I will read just about anything. But with all there is to read in the world (I should spend a little more time with the news....) I never became connected to a blog; until last spring when I "discovered" teaching blogs!
So I begin. I am clearly a newbie, a learner, but I teach my students that they need to take risks in their learning and be willing to make mistakes. I am embracing that truth here. So I begin with the knowledge that I, too, am a learner who must make mistakes and blunders. And through it all I will grow.
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