Starting my own blog is SCARY! Before I sat down with my laptop and a cup of coffee, I struggled with thoughts like, what will I talk about? What can I say? Why am I doing this? Who care’s about what I think? The list goes on.
You guys are probably saying, “Okay… so why are you writing this then?”
Well… I am writing for a summer class. So, I plan on writing on topics that relate to us college students. I’ll also talk about the things that I’m over here going to school for: Special Education and Speech Pathology!
So here I am pouring my thoughts out to a bunch of strangers online. But, don’t worry I’m going to make the most out of this class regardless of the anxiety I feel towards posting this, I plan on making this fun.
So I’m going to jump right in; To start my blog, I decided to begin by addressing those fears I had about writing this blog!
What Will I Talk About?
First things first, what’s this blog going to be about? Well, I am going to discuss the topics in which I relate the most to: being a college student, special education, and speech pathology. Since, I also have a second major in social and behavior sciences with a minor in social work, I may even touch on matters within social and behavior sciences too! Really, the question turns into what can’t I write about? The limits really are endless.
What Will I Say?
I’m going to share the things I see, the things I hear, what I read about, my own experiences, and so on. I have lots of things on my mind so buckle up! On top of the things I notice in my fields, I’m also going to share my opinions on the things I choose to write about!
Why blog?
I think that this experience of blogging about my ideas regarding my future career in special education and speech will really help me express how I feel on matters that are apart of the communities that I will soon join once I graduate. This will also help me learn more about things going on in the fields that I have chosen. It is also an opportunity for me to get involved in the community of educators and speech pathologists in a way that is out of my comfort zone (you know what they say about comfort zones)! Maybe, there will be some teachers or speech pathologists that actually enjoy my blog!
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T. Bennett
How will I make this ‘engaging‘?
I want this blog to be fun! There’s nothing fun about writing papers or essays so I intend on writing like I talk, not how I write… I think having a conversation is much more interesting than reading a paper so that’s one strategy I plan to use in my blog; like “Writing for the Web” by Lynda Felder says, “Use a conversational style”! I also love gifs and bitmoji’s which I plan to include in this blog to liven up my assignments. I’m definitely addicted to my phone, I love twitter and finding funny meme’s so of course I’ll include some of that in here too! I mean how fun is scrolling through twitter, I want my blog to be that fun too!
People Reading my thoughts…
AHHH.. people reading my thoughts makes me want to cry but at the same time, I’m pretty fun so I think people miiiight get a kick out of it… hopefully!
Commenting on Others…
Last but not least, this is a great opportunity for us to share our ideas to our class and hear what they think too! I think commenting on others is great and I think that by providing comments for each other we will all be able to improve our blogs!
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