• A blog is a web-based publication, of varying lengths, often considered to be an informal medium, with characteristics of being loquacious and sometimes garrulous. 
• Can be written in a range of ‘voices’, including scholarly, personal, professional, conversational and humurous tones.  
• Can be easily ‘interlinked’ between other blogs and other varying online pages.

So why blog?  Blogs are commonly used as a record to maintain ideas, reflections and activities.  These works, now public, can help to make contributions to the larger community; an action the author can reciprocate by reading and sharing other blogger’s works.   A term in this reading I came to admire, was the description of a blog as being the ‘development of an online portfolio’, and one which is obviously constantly expanding in both size and depth.

Also intriguing, is a blog’s ability to act as a place where students can ‘express doubt and insecurity about your knowledge’, unlike, for example, in an essay.  In this way, I am somewhat reassured that whatever content and knowledge I place in my blog, won’t necessarily been seen by my assessors as simply being incorrect, but likely as a process by which I can learn from any mistakes.

As I have been told countless times during my so far brief time spent at RMIT, the concern mostly for “The Journey, and not the Destination”.

Blogging is an exciting new technique by my personal way of learning, and I feel I have already benefited greatly from immersing myself in others’ blogs, and hope to give back to those who I have drawn on for inspiration via the posts on my page.