Creating a Blog

Creating a blog has always seemed, to me, rather pompous. Forget the fact that I am not an incredible writer. I never have been. Some people express themselves through the written, I mean typed, word. I express myself through my art. Just let me post a picture or a graphic of the point I am trying to get across. Even forgetting all that I still have always wondered, why bother with a blog? Who am I that anyone would take the time to read my daily musings? More really, who am I to think I should push my internal thoughts out onto the world?
Are my short and witty facebook posts or my perfecly hashtagged twitter posts not enough?
Apparently not.  I say that because more and more companies, schools, and organizations want links to my blog. They want to know what I think and how I present myself to world.
So my resume isn't enough? My verbal representation to the many questions regarding my philosophies and reactions to hypothetical nonsensical situations weren't enough to show that I have what it takes to complete the task?
Not anymore.
In a world that is now lived online - I as an educator, even a poorly written one, have to be one step ahead. How can I prepare my students for these same demands if I can't perform them myself?
I have to be able to wield the mighty pen, scratch that, the mighty keypad and model for my students the expectations of this digital world.
Online portfolios of writing samples and musings are a must. So here I go - embarking on getting myself up to date with online teaching and the Georgia Virtual Learning TOOL course. So now I will be blogging my experience and my thoughts as I move forward.
I'm not sure if I should apologize to you all for having to endure the typed musing to come or if I should just laugh and say "eh, could be worse". I know I have read many a blog that hooked me in with just a few sentences that by the end I was thinking, we should gather all the readers of this blog and form a class action lawsuit against the blogger for wasting our time, emotional distress and all that jazz.
Hopefully that won't happen to me! Sorry for the irresponsible use of commas and unending sentences.