Chapter 1 starts out talking about blogs which we've had good experience with so far in this grad program. Besides creating this blog, I've also had my students create their own blogs to use as their own reflection pieces (for my Web Tools class). I mentioned this as a comment to someone's forum post, but if I get to teach that class again, I will definitely do things differently. When creating the blogging requirement for class, I did go over the rubric I set up and thought that would be enough. Ha...I was wrong. The lack of quality just floored me as I read over their responses. It was like they were thinking, "Okay, what can I write quickly so I can get this assignment done?" rather than really putting any thought into it...which is really sad considering I gave them CLASS TIME to complete their blog posts. If/when I teach the class again, I will most definitely create a blog myself and model the quality that I'm looking for/requiring in the blog posts. I should assume that they will put in the thought/time I was hoping for.
Sometimes it is difficult for me to think of things that I haven't already stated in the forum posts for this class & previous classes. I almost feel like I am being redundant and saying nearly the same thing. Anyone else feel the same?
With that said, I'm glad that I have this blog set up. It will be OH SO helpful come the end of the year when I have to do my lovely PDP reflection. I will pretty much have my reflection done; I'll just have to review my blog posts & do a bit of summarizing and bada bing...I'll be done in no time! :) That's all for now folks...off to my group meeting! :)
Becky - first, I want to tell you that I totally agree with your thoughts on what to write in these weekly class blogs. I think this is exactly where my problem of blogging begins. Quite honestly, I'm not the kind of person who has a lot to say on topics, so commenting on so many items (this week it was 6 comments on the discussion boards and 2 comments on our blogs) makes it very difficult to not be redundant! So, how do I train myself to blog on a regular basis when I don't have that much to say? Maybe offering more critical analysis of my blog postings would be of greater benefit, which I'm hoping will be the case when I'm done with this class.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I, too, am working on my PDP and while I am struggling with my blogging skills, I can definitely see blogging as a great way to document reflections for my PDP. Good luck with yours!