Panther Pride

In the end, it’s all about connection. Learning is being able to connect with ideas, with people, with new places and new situations, with yourself, with the world around us. Students learn better if their teacher can build a connection with them. We all learn better if we connect socially. Collectively, (connectively?) we are infinitely smarter than any one of us are individually.

Ultimately, that’s what blogging is for. Blogs allow you to connect with a community – sometimes small, sometimes encompassing people all over the world. They allow you to interact with your audience, and allow your audience to interact with you. They allow you to ask questions, to consider different viewpoints, to challenge your thinking.

When you choose a topic on which to post, therefore, you need to think about something that will provoke thought. In a sense, blogs are reflections that are meant to be shared with the entire world. So, in your blog …

• Think deeply about a topic, idea, concept, etc.
• Share your thoughts, your confusions, your wonderings, your questions, your imagination.
• Be honest, but kind; be provocative, but respectful.
• Use examples, explanations – support what you’re saying, suggest answers to your questions, look at strategies that might help you.
• Above all, write things that you would want to read and that you think other people would like to read. If you don’t care about it, why should we?
• Read other people’s posts. Comment on them. Be inspired by them. Post your own thoughts on the topics they bring up.

Be someone that other people want to listen to. And when you have a post that you think is strong enough, well-written enough and thought-provoking enough to be shared with a wider audience, submit it to our writing blog here.

(Re-posted from November 17, 2016)