As I was driving home today with my head bobbin side to side listening to Justin Bieber (yes it was the only thing on the radio with no static and a decently nice beat) I was thinking about what am I going to write on this blog today. One of my fellow students at the wonderful institute yesterday told me to make sure it is "deep and meaningful".  So I thought I would blog about the definition of blogging and my google search led me to the Merriam-Webster website where I found some fascinating facts on the word BLOG.

Its first known use was in 1999, pretty interesting that blogging and Y2k were popular in the same year (thanks to one of my other fellow students who prefers to go by Giancarlo for the Y2k reference).

Behold the two definitions on BLOG, given to us by the famous dictionary duo Merriam and Webster:

 computers :  a website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks, videos, and photographs provided by the writer; also :  the contents of such a site

:  a regular feature appearing as part of an online publication that typically relates to a particular topic and consists of articles and personal commentary by one or more authors:  a technology blog

Just like we (teachers) have many forms: Parents, students, wonder women, nurses, psychiatrists, readers,superman, writers... so doesn't our good friend BLOG. Here are the many different forms of BLOG:

verb: blog
noun: Blogger 
noun: Blogging  
adjective: Bloggy  

Yes, there is word called bloggy. I think it would best be used as an adjective to describe me right now...very bloggy about the usage of the word blog 


I decided to leave you with a quote today on the reading we read last night by Donald Murray called Teaching Writing as a Process Not Product.


 To be a teacher of  a process such as this takes qualities too few of us have, but which most of us can develop. We have to be quiet, to listen, to respond. We are not the initiator or the motivator; we are the reader, the recipient.

Thank you,

Chris D'Agostino