First Day:

Blogs can play an important role in helping you self-identify what you want to keep as exemplars of practice - assignments, great ideas you want to develop, podcasts, presentations. It helps you build up a portfolio that captures your learning as you go along.

The blog is a great personal reflective tool - you can make the drafts private so you don't have to be concerned about scrutiny too soon before ideas are worked out in more refined form. You can keep a personal record of your impressions, concerns and questions, make them private, then activate them when you see a blogger talking about something similar that resonates with you. The blog allows you to keep ideas in reserve for a later time, for further development.

The blog helps you clear the mind of extraneous ideas - consider it as an outboard brain (D'arcy Norman and Alan Levine described why they blog in this way) that offloads your ideas so you can attend to more immediate practical tasks.

Second day:

A compelling reason to blog is to append ideas and revise your thoughts, drawing ideas from other sources, from personal experiences. The blog can act as a sandbox for the crafting and buidling up of ideas - great for students wanting to put together their assignments, and great for academics to hone their topics for presentations and papers.

The blog demands time to re-visit, re-read, and revise posts, to build on and elaborate further on topics.