The first (again)

I started writing my blog at me.edu.au, the social networking aspect of edna. But I quickly discovered that most of the blogs I was reading were hosted here at edublogs. This, along with the appeal of edublogs being powered by wordpress, drew me here. I also decided that if I do use blogs with my classes next year that it would be useful if I understood and used edublogs myself.

So, here’s my first post:

The first

Well, I’ve been doing lots of research and reading. I’m actually quite excited about returning to work next year. I’ve found lots of ‘potentially’ useful things around the place, and noticed that lots of them popped up on blogs. This got me thinking, really thinking. I knew I couldn’t rest until I’d begun the journey of blogging myself.

I’m really keen to write down my thoughts about my research and teaching as a way to further think through, rethink, critique and analyse it all.

I’m not sure what subjects or year levels I’ll be teaching next year, but I hope to incorporate IT into whatever it is. I’m particularly interested in doing some work with online tools (which may be tricky given the hardware I’ll have available) but it seems easier than installing new software.

I’d like to maybe use edublogs to facilitate some collaborative work amongst my students. I’ve also seen some really cool ‘wall display’ ideas tonight that my students could construct as assessment pieces (yay for authentic assessment).

Tags: thoughts
Posted at 11:13PM Nov 03, 2008 by Claire Adams