Part of the #ETCoaches Blog Challenge.
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What is my Purpose?
Challenges and Successes
Current Tools, Problems, and Successes
Influential Blogs
What is Next in Blogging?
As I identify the purpose of my blog, I concentrate on how I feel when I am actively blogging versus when I am not. Sometimes I call that “being behind,” or that I am “slacking off.” That is interesting since the act of blogging is not part of my job. Or is it?
When I am blogging I find I am thinking more deeply about questions which arise at work. When blogging, I find I explore more facets of an idea. When blogging, I go beyond my gut reaction and step through the entire scenario, impact, or work flow. All those are extensions of my work, benefit my work quality, and expand my attention to the details of my job. I am better when I attend to ideas beyond the hours of work and in another format than talking and email.
The purpose of my blog is to improve my understanding of and further develop my ideas on education in general, a specifically educational technology.
Audience
My audience is other teachers. Not limited to techies, but just the teachers interested in improving whatever they can. So, you know, most of us.
Passion
I am passionate about literacies, print/online, within subject areas, in all formats. I am also interested in Instructional Design, especially as it impacts adult learning. I am possibly addicted to (Massive Open Online Courses) MOOCs and – as a way to underscore my passions – I can highly recommend the last MOOC I participated in and the newest MOOC I have signed up for:
The Friday Institute’s – Disciplinary Literacy for Deeper Learning (Moodle)
Canvas Network’s – INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN SERVICE COURSE: GAIN EXPERIENCE FOR GOOD (Canvas) Starting September 12th!
The more questions I solve, the more I identify. However, the more I explore these questions deeply the better I feel about my ability to educate.
2016-09-09 at 2:13 pm
Thanks for organizing the #ETCoaches Blog Challenge and kicking it off with this post. I just finished reading Ryan’s first blog post, which he wrote during lunch duty and I found it humorous that you titled your blog “Hot Lunch Tray.” Thanks for sharing the MOOCs. Do you complete the MOOCs you begin? I tend to pick and choose the best content from the MOOCs in which I enroll without worrying about completing every assignment or task. Not to further enable your addiction to MOOCs, but have you seen the upcoming Innovators Mindset MOOC? https://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/6669
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2016-09-09 at 6:48 pm
Thanks for sharing that funny food connection – I had missed that!
I have completed 5 (1 twice), but finish about half the ones I sign up for. As long as I manage my expectations going in I don’t overwhelm myself I find. But oh my, I had not seen this MOOC yet – you know that I will check it out now. Thanks!
2016-09-23 at 9:06 pm
Penny,
First and foremost, I love your blog name. That is awesome!
I couldn’t agree more with you about the power of blogging! While I feel the same that it is not essential, when I am thinking, planning, and writing, I find that I am deeply connected and thinking at new levels. It provides me with ideas and ways to expand upon some of the items that I read from others. I get this same enjoyment from Twitter as well. I think it just means that I am fortunate enough to have found my calling!
Thanks for being a driving force behind the #ETCoaches Blog Challenge! I think it will do wonders for all of those involved in the PLN!