It has been two weeks since our last meeting. I am attempting tonight to familiarize myself with the blogging process so I stop being angry at having to do it. Here is the blog prompt I found...
- What is your experience with blogs? Do you read them regularly?
- How did it go setting up this blog?
I have never read a blog before this assignment. I think that they are somewhat like listserves, but much more random. I am skeptical how I will like reading them (actually, I'm not sure the assignment is to read them at all), because I do not know the people very well, and because we are fulfilling the requirements just by posting, not by being graded A/F, but Pass/Fail, I don't think people will spend much time writing them.
Of course I could be wrong. Maybe by reading the blogs I will learn how to teach my students how to use the internet to become informationally literate. That is why I will try and do my best to make my own blogs interesting, not a waste of time to read, and fairly short. Wouldn't it be great if everyone did the same?
If you read to the end of this thank you, and if you didn't, I understand ;). Robyn Asher
2 comments:
Robin,
I did read to the end! I hope that you feel less frustrated with blogs as you go along. I started mine last summer as part of an assignment and felt as you did until I received some comments, and then I found out how exciting it was to have feedback. I think this would be the same for our students; in fact they use this means of communicating with each other all the time, in the form of the social networking sites.
The blogs that I really value are the ones maintained by professionals in my field - former professors, writers, speakers, etc. And I do find it interesting to read the blogs of fellow MILI participants.
Janet Knoll, Highland Park, aka Mrs. Librarian
Robyn,
A clarification: the blogs are intended to document the completion of the "Things" and to allow us to communicate with each other, not necessarily to teach information literacy. Remember that within the MILP we are a learning community- the blogs are a way to share experiences, ideas and reactions to the work of the project
Leslie
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