Since the answer to the question, “How have you or your schools used e-portfolios?”, is “We haven’t”, I thought I had better come up with my own subject to blog about.
I remember my first thoughts about blogging. I felt the vast majority of people in this world are uninformed about most things. Why would I want to read what most of these “uninformed” people write? And when I was told that I had to write a blog about my thoughts, feelings and opinions while being enrolled in this MEIT program, I thought who would want to read my blog? I am one of the uninformed.
Occasionally, some family, friends and/or acquaintances will ask me what I am learning in this program. It is difficult to go back to what I think of as the “Dark Ages” of my computer knowledge history. That is, once someone is exposed to and begins using all of these Web 2.0 tools, they become second nature. I have forgotten what it was like to perform my job without using these newly found tools.
It turns out that the one who can get the most out of reading my blog is me. While beginning my portfolio and thinking about artifacts that I should include, I began reading my blog entries and gained a new perspective and recollected the moments that I had epiphanies about how best to use these new tools I had gained access to.
Bill, I completely agree. I began using blogs shortly before this program but I was just like you, why would I want to read others thoughts (especially when so many of us are uninformed), and why would anyone want to read my own uninformed thoughts too? Wow how things have changed in the past year.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that we have had to blog and you are very correct in that now when we got back to old posts, we can reflect on what we learned in that class. What a great tool to have and use.