This post is an example of how a learner can choose two expet bloggers to follow and comment on for the group.

Please see Barbara Ganley's blog at http://bgblogging.com/

Her blog has challenged me because she is at a different point in the professional "life-cycle" as a  mature writer/artist/teacher/community facilitator. Her blogging is of the slow type, rich with realia, images, photos, artistic work. She openly shares her thoughts, her doubts and inspirations. Her blogging emulates what I classify as the "personal" blogger, one who has gone beyond the professional reasons and writes as an outlet for connection, for self-expression, for self-making.

I aspire to eventually blog like her.

Please also see Terry Anderson's blog post in which he discussed blogging as academic publishin back in 2006, at http://terrya.edublogs.org/2006/03/09/blogging-as-academic-publication/

This post made me realize how powerful the use of the blog can be for weaving ideas from multiple sources, using an academic type of writing called connective writing (Will Richardson's term). It also gave an important insight into how the blog can be used as a powerful self-monitoring tool that can review previous work. In this case, he reflected on his experiences as a blogger of twelve posts.

I aspire to be able to use blogging as he does.