Different Blogging Styles
This week has been incredibly busy. I’ve been attending the SITE conference, trying to wrap-up several things here at work, plus being in the final week of the ESL/EFL yahoo sessions.
I always find time to keep up with other bloggers and this week Seb’s post really got me thinking about the different styles of bloggers or what we perceive to be the styles. He blogs Flemming Funch - Ming the Mechanic’s post on Blogging Context:
“But for me, even if the actual writing of blog post doesn’t take much time in itself, it has to fit in a context where I’ve had time to explore various things and been able to think about various things. Which requires a certain distance. I can’t go directly from a deep, interesting face-to-face discussion into writing a blog post, even if the subjects brought up are intriguing and worth sharing. I can’t blog meaningfully while sitting listening to somebody speak, as some people can, even if the technology is available for it. But, hey, we have our different styles.”
This makes me think about all the different blogging styles of our community. One of the reasons I started blogging was to improve my own writing. I’ve never really thought of myself as an especially good writer and it always takes me more time than I wish it would. I don’t just get an idea and then have the ability to quickly write about it. I have to think about it, read more, reflect again, and then write. Then I reread and am never really sure if I got it down how I meant it. I figured if I wrote more, I’d get better and surely I would be able to do it faster. I’d like to think my writing has improved (although I think I’m still too wordy) and I don’t think I am much quicker (and I would still love to have that skill!).
I love reading the posts like Seb shared because it made me think about all the different writing styles in our blogging community. Talk about diversity. Don’t you just love it? Where else could we get so much? I especially love the sharing of the thinking, the different ways we approach things, what is top on our minds, our daily schedules, what is making a difference…….
It keeps coming back to the different voices, and how that adds so much. We have got to help make that possible for our students and not set in too many rules or guidelines that hamper that.
Boy, my mind is twirling. So many things from the conference spinning around in my head, so many great thoughts and ideas from all my blogging friends, eportfolio information for an impending decision to be made at Georgia State is buzzing away in my head…. Yikes! I’ve got to reflect on and sort all these thoughts….back later.
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