Blogging Becomes A Part Of Life

Who would ever have thought that becoming a "blogger" would be a term connected with internet use, global communication, and earning your master's degree. When I mentioned to my 77-year old mother that we discussed blogging in my graduate class, the look on her face was priceless! She had hoped that, once I truly reached adulthood (which she thought would happen abotu 20 years ago), I would get serious about life and a career. Blogging? There's not even anything that sounds like it! Well, there are a few words: I once did a production of "Godspell" and had to learn clogging for a number; now and then we all do a little dogging; shopping for clothes could be called togging; and at Christmas I enjoy a bit of cranberry glogging. None of those have any remote connection at all to blogging.

So, what's next? The pace of technology is sometimes frightening, always exciting, and occasionally overwhelming. Just as I began to get comfortable with designing a web page for my music program, Tony suggested that blogging could be used in place of it. The seemingly boundless opportunities and challenges will, no doubt, continue to enthrall and/or scare all of us and, at times, make us all feel quite inadequate!

So, here we go. Cyberspace has birthed the blogosphere and it will be exciting to explore its many opportunities! I am very excited about this class. I look forward to discovering ways to use handhelds with my music classes and think they can offer even more interdisciplinary opportunities.