Anyone know of any good courses on blogging? I thought I would like blogging, when I was asked to contribute to the RSC Wales Learning Technology blog. Writing about something I love to talk about … having a secret (or not so secret) ambition to one day write a book … no problem, I thought. But, I am going to admit to worrying about writing this blog, having that nagging voice telling me that I should be doing it, feeling as though I  was about to sit an exam or go into a job interview, hoping that when I have published it no-one will read it … and then I think about the learners who are being asked to blog … how do they feel? Their work is usually only seen by their tutor … blogs can potentially be viewed by anyone. Having a purpose / writing for a real audience is great … but it actually doesn’t make me feel any better about this

Maybe it’s because I’m blogging as RSC Wales Helen, rather than as Helen, which I think would be different. Maybe the learners only ever blog as themselves. Maybe they don’t worry like I do …

Anyway, now that I have shared my concerns/fears about blogging … I am going to share how I am attempting to overcome this using another technolgy … Twitter … the microblogging service. Only being able to ‘tweet’ (tweet = post to Twitter, for those who haven’t come across this one) 140 characters is much less daunting than having to write this potentially never ending blog. I also have a handy application on my phone that means I can ‘tweet’ at the moment I have something to say, which I am finding helps a lot too. In the last week I have actually found myself tweeting (about technology) every day… and looking forward to it.

I will continue with this blog because facing my fears is something I need to do … but if you are interested in knowing what I am really thinking about technology, as I think it, then you can follow my tweets – HelenHRSC is my Twitter name.

… and going back to my first question … anyone know of any good blogging courses?