Still Questioning

So, I still have all the questions I had in my post in April. I've been reading more blogs, but I'm still not sure why people want to blog. I guess they have something to say.

I did start another blog for my students to read about suggested summer novels to read Hyde's Summer Reading Program. As I finish each novel, I blog about it, and encourage my future students to email me about what they are reading. I've heard from about 10 out of 250 students. Not good.

It's summer. I don't have anything to say. I'm a reader. I absorb. I read nings, blogs, twitter, facebook, online newsletters, novels. My days are full of reading, yet I have no comments about what I read. Why is that? How do people have time to read all that and still have the energy to blog? I'm boggled! Or, maybe, bloggled.

I read so much that I haven't even had time to really develop my own web site Mrs. Miller's Language Arts. Does anyone have suggestions for my web site?

I really use a lot of technology in my curriculum. Maybe I should write about that. Next time. I'll sign off for now.

The WHY of it

Why is it that sooooo many teachers are into blogging? Why do I feel that it is something I should be doing? Is this because I'm a language arts teacher?

Why don't I use blogs with my students? I use wiki, ning, animoto, glogster...why not blogs? Could it be a time thing? Reading so many blogs? I have 165 students. That's a lot of reading. But, I read their reading responses on the wiki.

Why did I name my blog Teaching 2.0 Style? Did I think I would only blog about the uses of "technology" in my English classroom?

I read snippets of blogs that are posted by people I follow on twitter. How do bloggers become popular? Why do they become popular?

There is one person I follow on twitter and about all s/he does any more is plug her/his blog. I'm about ready to quit following him/her. Should I tell him/her? Would s/he be offended?

Is that a why? Like 'why should I bother?' I don't really know that person.

All this social networking stuff is pretty new to me. Less than a year. Several months less than a year. I feel overwhelmed? Why is that?