Blogging: What does it look like for me... (an EdblogNZ challenge - Wk 1)

EdblogNZ is setting a blogging challenge as part of Connected Educator Month. There will be three challenges set in each one of the levels every week. 

The three levels in this challenge are:  

1. Absolute Newbie (e.g. “I don’t even have a blog set up yet”)
2. Casual Blogger (“I blog occasionally when I remember or feel I have something useful to say”)
3. Blogging Legend (“I blog regularly [at least once a week] and have great interaction/ contribution on my blog from commenters”)

I'm choosing to write a post on the challenge 'Write a blog post about why you blog professionally and some of the things you blog about. Share it using the #EdBlogNZ hashtag so the newbies can get further ideas to blog about.'  in the 'Blogging Legend' level.  Not that this is something that I see myself as, but the topic for this challenge was relevant to me.

Why I Blog:

• to grow professionally
• to share my experiences and knowledge
• to express ideas
• promoting my work
• sharing knowledge and [hopefully] make a difference
• to keep a record to look back on to view my professional and personal growth
• to remind me of the ideas I once had and to help me re-evaluate them
• to reflect on my practice, setting goals and to clarifying my thinking

flickr photo shared by langwitches under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-SA ) license

What do I blog about?

Here are a few:

• All my PL&D that I can tag with the RTC's (now the PTC's) to enable me to show with evidence that I meet the criteria to be a fully registered teacher
• Personal view
• Motivation
• Choice
• Goals
• Reflection

I do sometimes feel blogging to be a huge 'challenge', as I take way too much time thinking about how to put all the thoughts I have in my head into a post. In the end though, I feel a sense of accomplishment after expressing my thoughts, which makes the whole process all worth it.

~ "To Blog is To share, To connect, To create, To inspire" - Anonymous ~