Well, after years of reading other blogs, on occasion even commenting, I now have my own. Incredible what a little bit of motivation can do. Maybe I just never realised the potential benefit in having one, but would rather browse others without making my own contributions. Maybe I assumed one little blog in a sea of them would not make a difference. The truth is, I just never really thought about it at all, so I would need to reflect on what I was not thinking about all this.
Now this is a test really. Lets see if this gets onto the dynamic cyber ether, and if I can link this to CHECET. As you can see (I hope!), this blog in named in relation to my teaching and learning experience. I will play with it a while, learn my leasons, then dismantle it when done, to create a disciple and teaching specific blog.
I have given some thought to the learning prototype, and indesicion has gripped. Strong contenders are developing a prototype C-map for teaching, maybe link to assessment outcomes (but not likely at this point). I may turn to the blogs, with students reflecting regularly on the work covered in class, and posing difficulties with sections or content for other students to help with. My original plan, however, was to use the WIKI approach. I got some excellent ideas from the presentation the other day too! Alas, though, I need to do another day of self reflection, before I write my true reflection here. Some thinking still required for this one!
First step, post blog and link to the main blog - then I will think a little further.
Hi Kris
ReplyDeleteThanks for this reflection. Great that you are now "out there" and working the blogosphere in this way. You have a nice flowing way of writing and I think will be a good blogger. Watch this space!
About reflection 1, I am a bit concerned that you are starting to cast your net to the tools, and do not talk a lot about your context or students. In your second blog post/ reflection you do touch on this aspect, but it could maybe be brought out a bit more.
Who are your students? What do they expect to learn? How adept are they in technologies? Would they like you to incorporate some new ideas etc. I am always amazed at the insight asking one's students can have on both motivation and engagement. These are only ideas and I am sure you have a good idea of your students and are keeping that at the back of your mind when thinking and writing about your prototype.
Enjoy the process (although, as you say, the work really only starts now).
Hi Kris, to my shame I have just discovered that your ectual first reflection is on the checet blog. Apologies for not seeing that. The comment above is now not valid as I felt that you indeed have engaged with and thought about your students and what would be meaningful to them as well as to the university and society.
ReplyDeleteKeep on writing these thoughtful reflections, I enjoy them very much.