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Here is an interesting site on why people blog: Why Blog? I have many thoughts and theories as to why we blog. In fact, I wrote my masters thesis on writing motivation and blogging. Personally, I was turned on to blogging because of a professor I had during my masters degree. He made us blog.
Most of my thoughts on blogging revolve around academic blogging. I believe blogging gives my high school students a real-world audience. As a teacher of English/Language Arts I could not ask for anything better. I try to give students the idea that the Internet can be more than Myspace, Facebook, and the only resource they use when writing a research paper.
All students have something to say. Giving them the experience and responsibility of their own blog can help give students a bigger voice and a much wider audience. That's the easy answer. Check out the link above and make your own decision.
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The reason I originally started blogging was because I wanted to be able to write out my day, vent, etc. and I'm really not the journal type of person. I can type my thoughts out faster than I can write them, and with blogging I enjoy putting up pictures and deciding what my blog should look like. I think that acedemic blogging is good for writers, maybe the only problem being is that there are so many blogs out there, they won't all have a public audience. But overall I really see no true harm in it. I really enjoy sitting down before I go to bed and posting my thoughts, whether anyone reads them or not.
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