Why Blog? Notes on Mr Heurich's Presentation

• Blogging is social media- share info of community or even world
• get unfiltered info- immersed in the crowd- get info of the moment
• mentor check blog- respond- mentor commenting every day
• great way for mentor to track progress
• motivational- go back and see that you did what you wanted to do- use as a check list to makes sure you have done something
• can journal on cell phone
• can integrate media content (audio, video, photos)
• something to show, if things didn't go right
• never lose journal- online archive of accomplishments
• nothing gets lost from old high school days
• Blog 2 Print- formats blog into chronological order and organizes it in .pdf
• blogging websites- blogger under google