The blog is public but I won't be linking to it from any of my own sites for the sake of his anonymity. He has been running around with the old digital camera all day taking short video clips and snapping pictures all day. The challenge will be to get him to sit and write.

So why am I doing this? It's a bit of an experiment but primarily a good oportunity for a learning experience for him. I want him to begin to learn to look at the world around him a bit more carefully and with more varied perspective. I've found, as I begin to think about my own writing, that I stop and consider things just a bit more. I can see applications of a wide variety of educational compnents in having kids have thier own blogs. Some of the really obvious are technology, writing, and reading. It's plausible to incorporate critical thinking, science, literature, history, geography, etc.

The experiment side of this is to see if it's possible for a site with child driven content to attract traffic. He will pick the topics of the postings and I will provide only minimal editing and technology assistance. On the back end his site will utilize all of the same tools for SEO that my own sites have.

photo credit: zeb hodge

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