Stepping Stones

I blog because I learn from blogging. I like the feeling of immersing myself in a topic I am very interested in, thinking through the ideas and then commenting with my perspective. Reading blogs and commenting on articles or the view points of other bloggers brings me a very tangible sense of global participation.

It is hard work for me to write about something that has provoked me or I have thought about and then publish my comments to the blogosphere, yet I truly enjoy taking the time to work through my thoughts and put them to “paper”.

From past sports experiences I learned how rich it feels to work hard at learning skills, testing them out in public and enjoying the feeling of accomplishment from an effort completed to the best of my abilities. Blogging is a bit like that for me. I view it as an art form and as a life long engagement process for my personal growth and as a means to connect and share with others who are trying to make a difference in their community and their world.
Equally important, my interest in blogs and blogging is firmly immersed in my role as a community worker and educator. From my perspective, it is obvious that blogs and other social software tools are transforming our schools, businesses, community’s and the very nature of how we learn and grow.

My interest in blogging began when I started looking at blogs and saw the potential for how blogs could help the work I was doing at the Community Resource & Learning Room. I needed a free, inexpensive on-line service that could help our engagement work with youth and the community. Like many practitioners, I saw blogs as an inexpensive and simple way to organize information and present it to the world via the Internet.

When I started with blogs and blogging, I didn’t know that I was really starting an odyssey, that (I think) Barbara Ganley has called world making. I like the ring of that term. Who would of thunk it?
Our voyage continues.