Purposeful Blogging

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Let's consider purposeful blogging.

Blogging should always have a purpose -- to inform, to analyze, to explore, etc. If your only purpose is to entertain, and you are not very entertaining, you should not blog at all.

Blogs should not be used as message boards or social media. In other words, posting, "Hanging at the mall," is not at all purposeful for a blog of any kind, especially a classroom blog.

Well-written, thoughtful, analytical blog posts elicit thoughtful, analytical comments. In other words, if we're doing this right, the blog post and the comments are purposeful. Let's examine some purposeful posts.

Purposeful

Holding on to Max

ADHD hits home

The Catcher in the Rye

The Devouring

Not purposeful

lml

chillin

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