Entry 2

When reading "The Power of Voice" by Tom Romano, I was immediately brought to the memory of my wife saying to me as she proof read a paper "you don't talk like this, why do you write like this." I have always struggled to write, not only in the prose of writing but in the content too (some would say a struggle to find my inner voice).

I found the authors description of the teacher who used quick writes with her her students of interest. These are the same techniques that I have employed in drawing class for students to loosen up or to find their inner Picasso. From what I have seen and heard this process is practiced through out the fine arts from music to theater along with the visual arts.

One of the benefits from an exercise like this is that the student does not have time to over analyze what they are putting down. This is evident by the young man's comment about what happens to their class when their teacher yells.

In today's school the emphasis in writing has been place squarely on being able to write formative. This was the way that I learned to write and i see this form of writing being taught in our school today too. Now, when I sit down to write I automatically switch to a very formative mode when I start to write. In college I had an English class where our teacher had an MFA in creative writing, she used similar techniques as these to try and have us find our "inner voice".

The blogs of my friends that I read the most both use their inner voice to express them selves in their writings. One of the blogs is written just as he would talk to you in person and is for the most part a stream of consciousness. The other is also the persons inner voice, except this person inner voice is not like he talks. He tends to talk in a more formal way while being a great listener, but his blog reads with witty analogies and humor about his experiences and thoughts.

Students need to find their inner voice when writing. Writing has become such an important part in our society that students need to learn how to be able to express them selves. With the multiples of different media outlets, such as blogging, people are able to hide behind their inner voice with out being judged by their appearances.

Entry 1

When creating this blog, I first tried to use edublogs.org. But, I quickly found that I had to set up a different e-mail account other then the UIS account. This struck my as being ironic since it is a blog designed for students, but it is not going to be student friendly. I do understand that it has to do with the different spam protection that servers have installed.

So this lead me to set up a blog, here on Blogger. Today I get an e-mail message saying that I have been locked out here too..........hmmmmmmm, this blogging thing is starting to be troublesome. Hopefully this will post and I will be a happy little blogger once again,

I have had several friends that have used blogger as away of keeping in touch with friends and letting them know of their many adventures while they are traveling. I have found this to be a great way to stay in touch. It also helped that one friend, who teaches English, is a fantastic writer.

I have other friend that use this type of format as a way to stay in touch with family and friends that have many miles separating everyone. There are others that have biussness interests that happen to be hobbies too, blogging has been an outlit for them to tell the world about what they are doing and up coming events.

While setting up a blog has it's gliches, it seems to be a task that is easliy accomplished.