Why should you have your blog & what can you do on it?

Hello Readers! 
Sorry for not posting for a long time. Here is an article I and Zainab wrote for the Blogging Workshop we conducted. Zainab wrote it first, and then I edited it and rewrote the first two paragraphs. A week after the blogging workshop, it was distributed in the ERDC Seminar, Classwork Homework Interdependence, where it was distributed among about 400 people in the audience! (Cool, isn't it? I can only say that at least half the people didn't know it was written by kids!) Here it is:

During our childhood, we all do some amazingly creative work, like a piece of artwork, an interesting story, some craft work, and more, which is really appreciated by everyone around. But of course, it won’t stay forever. After some time, the stories written with ink fade away, and the drawings get ripped and torn, and a time comes, when these things are thrown away.

These things do not deserve to be thrown away. They could be the initial stages of a genius, or a scientist, artist, or writer for all we know. These things need to be preserved and kept safely in one place where more things are added as the child grows and produces more masterpieces.

Do you need a special place for that? Well, it’s already there! Easy and free, a blog is the ideal way to preserve your work. It cannot be torn, faded, deleted, thrown away, or lost. It remains there, recording your archives along, preserving them, storing them in a place where they’ll remain, safely, for you to open and read, over and over again.

A blog is really useful.  Apart from storing your work in one place, it gives you a platform, a stage, where you can express yourself with anyone around the world.  Anyone can be your audience and watch your shows, shows that are a display of your creativity.

A blog is like your online notebook that will remain with you.  As your life progresses on, so does your blog.

There are no rules about what to publish on your blog; you can post anything you like. Here is a list of things you can share:

• Stories you wrote
• Your artwork
• Your dreams and ideas
• Your memories and experiences
• Quotes you like
• A description of a project you’re working on
• Poetry
• Riddles and puzzles
• Surveys/ polls you want to conduct
• Interviews you conducted
• Your observations
• Interesting facts
• Mind maps you made
• Photography by you
• Your travelogues
• Experiments you did
• Research reports
• Presentations you made
• Videos you made
• Book reviews
• Website reviews
• Movie reviews
• Blog reviews
• Certificates or awards of your achievements
• Or anything that you feel like…

These are just some ideas. You don’t have to do all of them, but you can always get some tips from here.

But the most important thing I’d like you to know is to keep posting regularly. Because a blog is made up of all the stuff shared on it, not the backgrounds, color schemes, font types, and stuff. For a blog to be good, it isn’t necessary for it to look good. It’s good because of all the good things it has on it.

To learn more about blogging and how to create your blog, please visit these blogs:

www.fatimasarchives.blogspot.com             www.zainabsalmansiddiqui.blogspot.com