Well, when creating my first ever blog back in 2007 I waited for inspiration to arrive. And waited…..and waited. Roughly two years on inspiration never came despite numerous interesting events and challenges at least one of which you would think would be noteworthy. Hence my original Blogspot blog remains as empty as the day I first created it. Unlike the blank page that faces our students when we set a writing task my digital ‘blank page’ did not fill within the confines of 45 minutes writing time. There was no one to guide me, no learning intention or success criteria for me to refer to and, due to it residing in cyberspace, I was conveniently able to ignore it for over 700 days. There has always been something more pressing to do.
However, at last I have made some progress through the good fortune of beginning a course about e-learning in practice, a requirement being that I maintain a blog about e-learning! Even more fortuitous, the first week of reading was all about blogging!! All roads were clearly leading back to Blogspot. As I set up this new improved blog that would be certain to have content, I tried to ignore the previous blog but its lure was overpowering. I just had to have a look. Not unsurprisingly no-one has commented on it. No followers either. Perhaps that will change this time around. It was suggested to me that I delete it. But instead I will leave it ‘virtually’ hanging there as a reminder to myself of the initial challenges I faced when beginning to blog.
And so the first step on this e-learning journey is taken.
“Much to learn, you still have” (Yoda to Dooku, retrieved from http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Quote:Yoda) – he could have been referring to me!
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