If the OLL blog is your first ever blog, you may be wondering what you should be writing on blog posts. The temptation is to write as a teacher, but we’d like to persuade you to not do that at first. If you decide to have a “learning” blog, create a new one. But your first blog can be about something that is of interest to you. Here are some ideas to get you started with some interesting blog posts:
- have a diary of things/places in Edinburgh that you have visited. Each day, write a blog post with a photo, and why the place you visited is inspiring to you.
- browse other blogs on a particular theme, and then write a blog post of your favourite ones. As an example, here’s a blog post from someone who has looked at blogs about food: https://www.plated.com/morsel/our-15-favorite-food-blogs/
- create blog posts that have a running idea, for example “three things …”. Here’s an example: https://angelachick.com/blogs/three-good-things
- choose a hobby or interest that you have and write blog posts about that. For example, do you like drinking tea? Are there good shops to buy tea in Edinburgh – visit them and write about them. Did you have a tea party and invite friends? What is the most popular kind of tea amongst your friends (create a poll on a blog post to find out https://en.support.wordpress.com/forms/polls/ )
- think about who is reading your blog, and write for them. If you think of yourself as a teacher, you’ll write in “teacher talk”. But if you’re talking to friends, then you’ll develop a different kind of tone. How about family and friends back home (assuming Scotland is not your home!) – you could write about your adventures in Scotland with little personal details that you know they’ll really like. Write for them!
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