Final Blog... About Blogging

As far as my class assignment goes, this blog can be considered "complete," but the cool thing about the internet is that information never has to be "finished." Years later, this blog will still exist, and I can choose to pick up where I left off. And between now and then, anyone can stumble across this blog, comment, and inspire other potential readers to consider using blogs for whatever reason.

For instance, I think as a teacher, I'll use blogs with my students the way I've seen other teachers do it. I'll ask my students to pick a beat to follow and blog about. It will let them build their writing skills and they can interact with other bloggers, who will in turn give tips to my students and could link them to related, interesting articles or information sources.

The best tip I have for those who wish to blog: be consistent and original. Try to come up with a topic that applies to a lot of people but not many consider to put in print. Try to stay close to that topic. Think of it as a theme, and align all blogposts to it.