Using Blogs for the First Time in Teaching

For those individuals who are digital immigrants using a blog can be confusing and time consuming. I previously considered myself to be quite digitally literate; however, when I was first told I needed to do a blog, my initial reaction was one of panic...yes I use Facebook, yes I have dabbled in Twitter and have experience of Excel/Word etc. but as for blogs, it is a completely new and unfamiliar territory to me! So what did I do to make this easier...turned to another digital source and looked at YouTube. There were a number of videos offering guidance to people on how to "blog". This helped me with the initial starting point but I found that just generally playing around with the blogging tool within Google (and nagging my fellow peers) I was able to get a very basic understanding of what I was expected to do...and look I've just written my first blog!!!