Writing, Reading, Reflection

Blogs are a new form of communication for me. As a writing teacher, though, in the 21st Century, it’s about time I “get with the program” and do what so many of my students are doing. I’m a learner here, for sure, and will likely find myself muddling through what to do, how to do it and how to make this blog look presentable to the world.

I’m a writer and have only in the last few years taken to the computer to compose. It’s still very comfortable to use pen and paper. It is tactile, and I enjoy the feeling of the pen against the paper, of a composition book falling open to the exact page I want, of being able to stuff all of it in my bag and head out to the park or Starbuck’s with ease. I like curling my body around a journal, having a written conversation with something that doesn’t judge my thoughts or my spelling!

I keep a commonplace book, too. But that is so 15th Century of me! It’s time, to move up and move on and learn a new process, a new form of composing and communicating and to understand what I can do to help my students in their ways of communicating with the entire world.