So I laid in bed after publishing my first ever blog; three things occurred to me which I had not yet considered:
1. If my intention is to use this blog as a reflective journal for my teaching assignment, how am I going to interject enough academic fluff to met the module outcomes, into what is shaping up to be a rather informal approach?
2. This would be great to share with students and ask for their feedback on certain elements of my teaching practice, but there may be things I do not want them to read, can I make these aspects private?
3. Can I can get blogger on my phone? This would allow me to make the most of idol times I spend waiting - over lunch at university, in the school playground, at kids dentist/ orthodontist / opticians/ immunisation appointments; you get the drift right!
So my mission for today is to find out: watch this space, I will be an expert blogger come the stroke of midnight!!
Progress update re the above:
ReplyDelete1. I intend to post after every teaching session and will utilise a range of reflective models (Gibbs, Brookfield, Kolb, Rolf) to aid my reflections.
2. I completed a test study and am pleased to have learnt that I can keep entries private by saving but not publishing, this means I can encourage students to comment on my lesson reflections, and keep the content that I want to stay private, private!!
3. Woohoo, I now have blogger on my phone! This was a little trickier than expected as for some reason I had more than one google mail account and they did not want to talk to each other.
I can't believe how I have learned in the space of 24 hours: my technophobia is vanquished and I am now part of ILT (a term I had never heard of until yesterday) revolution. Now to work out how I am going to spread the word and incorporate all of this into my lessons?!