It’s time once again for Featured Blogger Friday and I am delighted to welcome Jone MacCulloch, who is passionate about children’s literature and runs two blogs – a personal blog, and a library blog. Welcome Jone.
Firstly, why do you blog?
I started blogging in 2006 to create a place to writer about what was happening in my school library. It didn’t take long to start finding the kidlitosphere, Poetry Friday, and others who were blogging about children’s literature. The first blogs I found and read were Mother Reader and Jen Robinson’s Book Page.
What do you blog about?
Poetry, nonfiction, the CYBILS Award, student work, thoughts about life in the library, and what people are reading. Sometimes it may be what strikes my fancy.
Who is your target readership?
My hope is that the students will tell their parents that their poem has been posted on the blog. Hopefully, other librarians will pop in to read.
How often do you blog?
I try to blog a minimum of three times a week at “Check It Out”: Nonfiction Monday, Who’s Reading What Wednesday, and Poetry Friday. Every once in awhile, I will do a “Thoughtful Thursday’ post. This year, every day in April was devoted to featuring a student poem so I blogged for 30 days straight.
I also try to post three times a week at “Deowriter”, my personal blog.
How much time do you devote to blogging?
It’s easy to devote 3-5 hours per week. I finally discovered (after 4 years) the nifty scheduling feature when writing a post so I am hoping to be more efficient in my writing time.
Do you have a favourite blog post?
Wow, I don’t think I can choose. I am really, really happy with the student poetry project this past month, especially the kindergarteners. The students were really excited to see their poems posted. I also like when I can do an interview.
What do you see as the benefits of blogging?
I love the connections made with people all over the world both through the kidlitosphere blogs and the writing blogs. The world is chock full of readers and writers, what a community we have in cyberspace.
Writing regularly. It was about 6 months when I decided to create a personal blog for my personal poetry writing. It has also given me a chance to show my photography as well.
What blogging platform do you use and why?
Currently, I am using wordpress as my platform. I have used edublogs and blogger. I find that wordpress is easy to use.
Do you have a favourite blog to visit (other than your own)?
Just one?
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Lastly, when you are not blogging, what else do you do?
Photography, beading, being outdoors, reading, and hanging out with my grandgirls. In the summer my husband and I love road trips.
That was fun!
Thanks for dropping by, Jone.