"Thinkshed" explained

I was going to explain what a thinkshed is when I first called by blog my "electronic thinkshed". The term comes from Mr. Kelcsh @ Dixie State College, he was my English professor. He described a "thinkshed" as a shed (or journal) where we keep our thoughts. The think shed is a project that he assigned the class instead of having a final exam. No one complains about not having to take a final exam, the catch is this, we had to write in our "thinkshed" throughout the semester. To get full credit we had to fill a 100 page (front and back side of the page) composition note book during the semester and turn it in as our final. Since I took both required semesters of English from Mr. Kelcsh who assigned us this journal or thinkshed as a project at the beginning of the semester, I have kept a "thinkshed" with me ever since. I carry a composition note book in my back pack, or my manly purse as Jacob calls it, all the time. One of the drawbacks to writing in a journal for me is that once I have written in it, I very seldom ever look at it, and no one else ever sees what I have written either. My thought is this, who benefits from this? When I started a blog I thought "wow, a thinkshed that might actually be of use to someone." Anyway, that is a thinkshed in a nut shell.