The Birth Of Mr. Braman's Blog and The Death of The Writer's Notebook

Let's be honest.  Writer's notebooks are mad old-school.  Welcome to the year 2008. The writer's notebook is dead!  Everybody is online these days.  There's no need for my students to risk losing their notebooks anymore.  There's no need for me to break my back carrying them home every other Friday.  Those days are over! Now we can keep everything right here, online, for the whole world to read and experience (or perhaps just some friends and family).  Welcome to the BLOGOSPHERE!  A "Blog" is a place to save and share your writing.  It is like a writer's notebook, but it's done online.  All your work is saved and organized for you.  If you want, you can even add pictures, videos, and music.  It works kind of like MySpace.  You can make your Blog private, or you can allow other people to read it.  If you decide to let other people read your Blog, you can allow them to leave comments about what you wrote.

I am hoping my students and I can create a small community of Blogs where we share our stories, interests, thoughts, feelings, and opinions.  My dream is that it becomes a place where we share our ideas about the world.  

So, students of MS 322, throw down your notebooks and join the Blogosphere!