L2eL - Learning to e-Learn

I’m not generally one for New Year resolutions but I did set one this year - to get back to using my blog.

This resolution hasn’t started so well as it’s now February and this is my first post of the New Year.  There was a reason behind the resolution. For me it serves a number of purposes.

• Reflect - I reflect on my learning throught this blog.  This helps make ideas, knowledge and skills more memorable and helps develop links with my other experiences.  Reflection is a key skill in learning and one that unfortunately I regularly sacrifice due to not having enough time.  Consequently I fell that I don’t hold on to all my learning.  Reflecting would help develop the shallow to the deep or the deep to the profound.
• Articulate - Working with teachers I spend a considerable amount of time explaining my thinking.  Part of the process of writing this blog gets me to turn my thinking in to words.  This can only help me explain my thinking and reasoning to others.
• Experience - I’m not working with teachers who are blogging with their students - yet!  It’s coming.  The schools I work with are in the main not early adopters of technology, but I can seee blogging being on the horizon.  I can see teachers using it to support learners in recording their learning.  That being the case I feel I’d better get in their before them and find out how to do it, some of the skills needed and begin to reflect on what makes a good blog and how to write posts.

 So with all this in mind I intend to get blogging again.

Filed by Paul at 7:44 pm under blogging