So, I’ve been lurking on a course blog, occasionally reading what students in the class are saying, but I haven’t been actively participating. However, lately, they’ve been posting about blogging. Most of these students haven’t drank the kool-aid, much less mixed it up! They don’t get blogging. They don’t think it is any big deal. Pretty much everything they say is the opposite experience that I have had. I’ve been debating about commenting.

But, I’m wanting to help out the professor and say, look…here are all of the great things that I’ve noticed while blogging. Besides what I’ve noticed personally and all who have stopped by to comment on my blog, which I think is fabulous, I think about all of the teaching carnivals, the semi-annual reading carnival, Collin’s Networked Rhetorics class, all of the other grad classes in the blogosphere, and just the daily circulation of ideas.

I wonder if 20 of you who are reading this post, commented on it, would that make a difference for them? If I listed out the benefits, would they be swayed? What does it take before the light clicks on? Or, more likely, there are just some people who won’t see the value of it, ever. Darn!

Yet, I ask you, my readers…what is your approach? how do you explain blogging so that students, or maybe even colleagues, get what is happening? Or, do you not bother? Do you only offer your opinion when someone asks you for info?

Update: from my stats, this post is getting the hits…people are curious, but as of yet no one has commented. Hmm…interesting question, but no takers??