Learning to make a blog

Here are the directions for making a blog.

Interestingly enough, the concept of developing a blog and writing posts has come up a lot recently in my life. First and foremost in this class obviously, as it is one of my assignments. One in which I need to post at least three times a week, twice detailing my endeavors in achieving my professional goals, and once covering my personal goals. This is not a new concept to me, as I had a blog in middle school, but looking back on it, it was much more scattered throughout my life, and there was nothing linking the posts together, other than the fact that all the posts centered around my life. In this case though, this blog will have a deeper meaning, as I will be able to look back on it while I am in this period of determining who I wish to become. This semester definitely has me standing at a crossroads, with many different paths I can go down, both in the short and long term, and this will help me figure it all out.

Additionally, this idea has come up in my placement at Winooski High School, where I visit a class each Monday that is centered around community based outreach. That is, the students have identified various issues that the student body is facing, and they are working to remedy them. This is the pilot for this course, as nothing like it has been taught before at Winooski. For their first year, the students are tackling the issue of unappetizing school lunches, and difficulty accessing the school building during times of need(such as after sports practice or arriving too early on those cold Vermont mornings). Each student is to keep a blog of their progress throughout the year, following a specific format. Mainly that there are three key pieces to a successful blog and then the following posts:
1. Introduce who you are
2. Introduce the topic you will be blogging about
3. Why is that topic important to the reader?

For their first blog post, the students focused on introducing themselves, and discussing which issue they are working on and why. I was able to read all their posts and experience their points of view. I suppose that is the point of this blog, not only for myself, but for others to be prompted to do their own searching, until they find themselves.