New To This Whole Blogging Thing.... ish

If someone would have asked me 12 or so years ago if I would be a blogger, I most likely would have first thought it was some corny rip off of the famed Frogger video game franchise and said "No." Then, once someone explained to me what blogging was, then I would probably still have said "No." In years past, I never would have even considered blogging. In all honesty, back then who would really want to read a 'Dear Diary' moment about me on the Internet, especially when all of the dial-up Internet was needed to download those precious illegal mp3s on Napster. Speaking of Napster, the first song I ever downloaded was "The Saga Begins" by Weird Al Yankovic, which was a parody of "Episode 1" of the Star Wars movies, which sampled the song "American Pie" by Don McLean. Anyways, blogging was just something that never ever once crossed my mind. In my grade 12 year, someone I knew started to blog, and I can honestly say that I never once read one of their posts (I feel bad for that now come to think of it). I just never thought that I would want to sit down and read about someone's day, because I would rather just ask them about it in person.
Then the years rolled on and I realized that people were actually becoming famous for being bloggers, and that this blogging thing had become a huge phenomenon that I had apparently missed the boat on. None of my close friends were blogging, but they would read blogs, and knew people who blogged, but did not blog themselves. So, I decided to one day read a blog to see what the hype was about. So I began to read a blog made by a TSN broadcaster, and I found it awesome because of the hilarity that was contained within it. Despite this new found love for reading, I still never once thought I would blog myself... until I entered the Faculty of Education at Brandon University, and was told that I had to blog for part of my course marks, using a little site called Ning.
Well I can honestly say that I actually enjoyed writing blogs for that class, because it really helped extend my learning on what I had learnt about in that particular class. However, once the class was finished, my blogging trailed off quite a bit. To be more exact, it disappeared completely. I do not know why, maybe it was because the class was over, but who knows.
Anyways, I am using this class (Internet For Educators) as sort of my second chance. I want to make sure that I keep this blogging thing up this time, because I now truly see the benefit of its use. It is a great way for educators to share ideas, help each other through problems, and just stay in touch for sanity's sake. It's use within the Internet for Educators class will be highly beneficial, and I hope that it becomes an integral component of course.
So, to conclude my first post in just over a year... here is to a new second start in my technological career (so now the thing in the picture and I are going to figure out exactly what this RRS feed is exactly) .... CHEERS!!