Nov 13 2007
The evolution of my blog!
So Jo has asked me to deliver a brief presentation about my induction to blogging and the blogosphere to a gathering of the MYP development team at our school. Hmmmm… what to say… I think I will focus on the evolution of my blog, which began not so long ago, in August 2007 after attending a Web 2.0 PD. To help me through this ordeal, I will need some directional notes. Here they are in the form of a little mock tag_cloud!
| illustration_friday blog annual_review del.icio.us reflective_practice tagging teachers_on_ice twitter resourcestag_cloud connections widgets
digital_native communication digital_immigrant wiki moodle moodle podcasting |
The bottom line for me with this blogging caper, apart from the opportunity to mount my art, is that the activity of reflective practice, which blogging affords me, allows my thoughts about my teaching and my students’ learning, to become crystallised with a much greater clarity than if I do not write them down. E.M. Forster wrapped this up succinctly with his words, how can I know what I think ’til I see what I say… this holds very true for me… and I’d recommend it to my peers and my students.
Next will be the challenge of setting up classroom blogs that my students can use for their own reflection, communication, networking and exploration. But Jo, I need your help to do this!
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I just started blogging in June - now it’s one of my lifelines!
You are so right that getting ideas and reflections into some sort of “concrete” form helps to focus them. For a brainstorming type of thinker like me, this has led to a sense of logic and order.
Your blog has a nice flow to it. It’s a pleasure to meet you!
what a cool idea with the mock tag cloud. There was so much to say wasn’t there. But you said it so well and it was great that you were able to share all that stuff. I think some people at the meeting were a bit flabbergasted that you and others were doing it and loving it. Kudos to the life long learners. I’d love to know what you thought of the whole thing
Thanks for the link Yvonne. It is so great to find it just by chance. But once you start blogging your opportunities to make great chance discoveries are magnified a thousand fold. I have delicioused it, it’s so good.