For anyone out there on the world wide web who may stumble upon this post, you must first understand that this is my very first blog. Pardon my ignorance. Hopefully it's of a decent quality.
I've been asked through a course I am taking to do this, with reflection as the topic. George Couros wrote a blog entitled 'Another Reason to Blog - Proactive Through Reflection.' I do believe reflecting is an important skill to have, and yes, I do believe it is a skill. It is important for our own growth and learning as well as our work, our relationships, friendships and even our health. Taking even just a few moments to reflect on what 'has been' or 'what could've been' is important to future 'what will be's' or 'could be's', with regards to any of the previous avenues mentioned.
Reflecting is not new to me. I have a collection of writings at home, which I often look at and think about and use for my own personal growth. This vehicle (reflecting through blogging) for me is new, as my writings are my own, I generally do not share. Putting oneself out there for others to see, hear, read and critique, is exciting, however it is tremendously frightful. However, having people critique is not always a bad thing. I do look forward to some helpful comments. It will also be nice to have somewhat of an e-catalogue of blogs for myself to reflect on.
I am a teacher. Before you start throwing rotten tomatoes at your computer screen, please understand the nature of the course I'm doing this for is to improve my learning and therefore my students learning and success as well. The course which I am taking is to integrate technology into our classrooms and our learning and I'm finding it is very worthwhile course for many different reasons. I'm learning about programs available online for myself and my students. I'm learning about how to use different technologies to their fullest potential in the classroom. It's forcing me to step outside my comfort zone and do things like blogging which I have never done before.
I'm begging for more time in a day right now, with work, this course, a wife and two young girls and a new house to boot. Anyhow, as with my other writings, I'm sure I'll look back on this and 'reflect' on when my girls were young and what school was like!
