Bienvenidos

Okay so my first impression of blogs was.... what makes everyone an authority figure on the news? Most people don't even have any training to determine what is important let alone what something means. Also why would news anchors such as Brian Williams actually tell us what they're thinking as opposed reporting one thing on the news then saying "go to my blog to read more." My next impression on blogs was, this is just another manifestation of our culture's selfishness. We are so caught up in ourselves, believe that we are the most important thing on this planet and we all have a story that should be published along with the great classics. If you need more illustration on this point just go see Julie and Julia (a movie I did enjoy by the way). I had told myself that I will do one selfish thing and NOT get involved in Blogs just to prove my own point that I don't want to get involved with something that I thought was just a fad of our selfishly instant gratified society. Well apparently the gravity of the Blog has sucked me in! As the case with so much technology consuming our world, tt wasn't a matter of if but when. Not only has the gravity sucked me in but I am now considering using Blogs in my teaching.

Let me reassess my earlier point of view. Yes I still hold true to some of these self-evident truths but some I must revisit. Blogs are a powerful tool for collaboration, reflection and composing cohesive ideas. I plan on using these in my class as a means to get students to think about the consistencies of history and what it all means to them. For example I want students to post weekly on what it means to be an American. This will be a great common theme that helps them determine their own identity while connecting all of the developments in our country and determine what it all actually means over the scale of time.

Ive also realized that no longer will our memoirs be contained in written journals but they will also be constructed for everyone to comment. Maybe Blogs aren't as selfish as I first thought? It is a way of taking my personal selfish thoughts to the world so that people can comment to actually make me a better person that makes the world a better place.

So be it, here goes my Blog! If you read it cool! If you don't thats cool too, I realize I am not the most important person out there, I don't plan to be, and don't expect to be so no hard feelings : )