I encourage you to read the post that is linked below because it has excellent insight into a question that I hear quite a bit: Why should I blog? Being a good teacher means being open to new ideas, concepts, strategies, and criticism. Being able to truly understand yourself as a teacher - you need to be able to hear yourself and your opinions. Just as we encourage our students to journal in order to find their writing voice - we too need to find our teaching voice. By blogging about our experiences or strategies that were or were not effective, it helps us to better understand ourselves, while being able to share those ideas with others. Like it is stated in the post below, don't prevent yourself from blogging because you don't feel as if you don't have anything worthwhile to share. If your student responded with that answer, you wouldn't accept that excuse. Don't accept it from yourself either. Give it a try. At least start by following other educator's blogs and understanding the value they have. What do you have to lose? Nothing.
http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-teachers-should-blog.html
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