Finally. My skinny, one-way interaction arrow that has only been pointing to me on my Learning Map, is now getting an arrow from me, to the blog. It's still probably far too skinny an arrow, and likely a bit fuzzy, but it's something. It's my giant leap of a baby step!
I often have trouble writing reflections. Which almost doesn't make sense because I always feel like I'm reflecting (although some call it over-analysing ...). As a kid, I kept a diary, and it was something that I wrote in every single day for many years. It became a tradition at Christmas that I would be given a new diary - a fresh start for the coming year.
However, despite the 1,000+ entries I wrote, I doubt many of them were actual, honest reflections of my day. I think I wrote them with the assumption that someone would 'break' into my diary and have a quick read (and by 'break in', I mean push the button to pop the lock, which never seemed to need the key it came with!). Why I thought anyone would be interested in reading about my day (or my fake day) is beyond me, but I was at least prepared for the possibility of it happening. If anything, it certainly developed my creative writing skills.
There was a purpose to that trip down memory lane. It was to provide evidence for my history of deceitful reflections. And I figure by being honest about that, it will be a good start towards an honest blogging practice.
I realise my first proper post on a blog about teaching, has nothing teaching-related in it, but my goal was to get a post up about something ... anything! Mission accomplished :)
