In your learning log, record your thoughts. Consider various uses for blogs such as citizen journalism and personal blogging. Have you seen in your net travels any interesting uses for blogs? This blog entry is an opportunity to tell us what you really think of blogging!
This course has introduced me to writing my first blog and whilst at first apprehensive about what to write, the course outline has certainly directed me towards what needs to be recorded. When reading about blogs at first, the literature discussed that blogs can be used to record your thoughts, used as a reflective record, or used simply as an online diary. Reading other students blogs has been a very educational experience in seeing and understanding how other students interpret information and record their experiences, frustrations, joys. In this course, blogs have enabled students’ personalities to come through in the comments and it has been good to see that as an external student, there are similarities in personality with some of the other external students.
The other point of interest that I have found with blogs is that unless you record your thoughts at the time of doing an exercise, it is often quite difficult to recall the exercise a few days later, when you think you might continue with the blog. Blogs enable the experience to be recorded in actual time and there is no threat that what you have recorded is incorrect as it can be changed at a later time. You do not need to try to recall the exercise.
Overall I have enjoyed doing and reading blogs in this course and will continue to do so after the course has finished.
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Your point about capturing your thoughts quickly when blogging about an exercise is so true Anna. I have found that quickly jotting down a few lines and not publishing the post helps me with this.
ReplyDeleteOver a few days I can then flesh out the rest of the post and reflect on my ideas etc. Still it can be a very time consuming process!