Why Blog???

Time to get the hang of blogging....I have been skulking about reading other peoples blogs and not really getting the point. Then I stumbled across a blog about a scandal here in Perth and I was hooked! Very quickly the blog (which was anonymous) degenerated in to extreme belligerence and name calling.

So is blogging like reading a trashy mag...no surely not. Is it like talking to strangers about your problems...yuck.So here I start an experiment to see if I can reach what seems like a high ideal - networking with interested and knowledge people about building online communities.

At the moment in my workplace consultants are under pressure to provide an increasing amount number of services to teachers who students that have a disability. Collaborating online and building up a body of knowledge via forums or groups could help provide these services to more teachers. We are having difficulty engaging the consultants in online learning. It just seems like more work to them. How to convince them that it will add value to their current role????