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To Blog or Not to Blog?

Despite my good intentions, it’s been awhile since I posted a blog here. In ETEC 500 Research, I developed a research proposal investigating how blogs can be used to learn. Ironically, I discovered that most people eventually stop blogging. I wanted to be one of those people who continued but time constraints put blogging at the bottom of my priority list.

Now the list has gone bottoms up and blogging has become the priority! Why the change? In a word – ePortfolio! I’ve come to the end of my academic Master of Educational Technology (MET) journey and it’s time to reflect on what I’ve learned in the form of an ePortfolio. Besides creating an end product, the ePortfolio, I am learning that the process is just as important. In this case, process means reflection. Therefore, I’ve decided to use this blog to reflect on the development of my ePortfolio. In turn, I will link the blog and the ePortfolio together. Since one could not really exist without the other, this blog will be my primary artifact linking all that I have learned theoretically with all that I am now able to do practically.

I hope you will join me in the next chapter of my eStory, a book full of discovery, mystery and yes, even horror!

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Welcome Back!

Welcome back to my educational technology blog! I’m currently taking courses in research methods and business ventures. It’s week four and I’m finally starting to grasp the new concepts and course design. We’re using the learning management system (LMS), Blackboard Vista, for the research course which I’ve become quite familiar with since these are my 7th and 8th courses. However, our ventures course takes place in a blog which is a new experience.

Although I’m familiar with the layout and design of blogs because of my time here, it’s a different experience taking a course through a blog. My first challenge was following the course chats. In our LMS, we could follow various discussions and threads with ease. In the blog, posts are organized by tags and categories. Each new post is added by date. I found it confusing until our instructor suggested we use an RRS reader to help us figure out which posts we had read. I’m now using Google Reader which does help you differentiate between the old and new but it doesn’t sort posts by subject so I’m back to trying to read via the blog itself. I’m 400 posts behind but I’m hopeful that I will catch up! I will keep you posted.

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