A New Year, A New Blog

Welcome to my new blog! If you know my blogging history then I'm sure you are thinking that the last thing I need is a new blog. I might be addicted to creating blogs. A few weeks ago I was preparing for a presentation and I was able to trace how the events in my life created new avenues to explore through blogging. See My Blogs for details.

This school year I developed a proposal which allowed each of my students to create their own blog and use it as an extension of their classroom experience. As I worked out the kinks by researching and learning through tutorials I felt I needed a new blog to share this information with educators. I tried to create pages with this information on a couple of my other blogs but it wasn't a good fit. Why would an English teacher go to the GRADS Classroom Blog or the ABC's of Reading to learn how to start their own blog?

When I created Teach 2 Blog a couple weeks ago the design was totally different than what I have now (and may even change again). I stumbled upon a post by Sonia on her blog LogAllot titled If I Could Start My Blog Over and found these 5 ideas useful.

1. I should have a plan and think about what I really want this blog to be about.
2. To brand everything under my real name.
3. To apply myself and stick with writing
4. To become a part of the blogging community and form relationships through visiting and commenting.
5. To have an attractive, colorful blog design.

Even though this blog is considered "Under Construction" I hope you find it easy to navigate and full of useful information.