Why do I blog?

Posted: 21st January 2011 by marisa.constantinides in Uncategorized
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I am a teacher educator from Athens, Greece. My job is to train English teachers and help them become better teachers in the classroom.

One year ago, I started blogging. My blogs are written for teachers of English and you can see them here:

So here I am writing this post to share my enthusiasm about blogging with you and to make you start blogging too!

Why do I blog?

Richard St. John shares his eight secrets of success in a fantastic video and I want to talk about blogging and how I think it is connected to these eight great secrets.

Here are the eight secrets in a word cloud

Richard St.John's Eight Secrets of Success - Made with http://www.wordle.net/

I blog for all the reasons in the word cloud:

  • I blog because I want to be an excellent educator (Excellence)
  • I blog because I want to share my ideas (Serve Others)
  • I persist even when I am tired; good results need hard work! (Work!)
  • I blog to focus more on my interest and learn more about it (Focus)
  • I blog because this makes me think and learn new things (Push Yourself)
  • I get more ideas by trying to explain my ideas to other people. (Ideas)
  • I blog because I love my job and I am passionate about teaching (Passion)
  • I persist because I believe communicating your ideas is important for learning (Persist)

    • What should you blog about?

    Blog about something you love, something you are passionate about. It may be using songs in the classroom, using Web 2.0 tools or it may even be a blog about the English language!

    If you love your subject, you will find more things to write and you will also find the time, no matter how busy you are.

    It takes time but it’s worth it!

    May be you will find it hard at the the beginning. I found it hard too!

    But with time, it gets easier. Remember! You won’t get better by waiting! You will get better by trying!”

    Go beyond your comfort zone

    Challenge yourself and you will surely be amazed by how much you will learn by communicating with the world!

    And if you would like to listen to this great talk which inspired this post, here it is below, one of the great TED talks.

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    1. Alexandra says:
      January 23, 2011 at 1:32 pm

      Marisa, this looks great!!!
      It would take me weeks to put all that together – lol
      And the TED talk is excellent :-)
      Really inspiring!

      I’m now going to try and enrol in the RSS feed,

      Wish me Luck!

      Reply
    2. marisa.constantinides says:
      January 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm

      Thanks, Alexandra!

      Try using Google Reader – it allows you to add blogs very easily

      Reply
    3. sue annan says:
      January 23, 2011 at 3:25 pm

      Very nice blog, Marisa. If mine can be as good as yours I will be happy.

      Reply
    4. Tyson says:
      January 23, 2011 at 9:00 pm

      Blogging has been an enormous outlet for reflection, productivity and interaction over the past year. I’ve tried to convince colleagues to give it a go, with little success. I keep hoping one day I’ll rub off on them.

      You’ve summarised well the reasons I (and probably many of us) blog too!

      Reply
    5. Nadia says:
      January 24, 2011 at 10:14 am

      Marisa, this is awesome! it looks really “bloggy”, with so many widgets and colours! I like your ideas and everything that’s there! best!

      Reply