The First Blogging Experience for OU-AEI E-Teacher Scholarship on blogger.com
Reflecting on my firsthand experience of blogging on blogspot.com is really a surprising one as most of us are novel users for this blog site.First I attempted to design my academic blog using quite relative one to my previous blog on wordpress.com. My heart throbbed thenceforth when about ten proposed names,one after another, were not accepted. Luckily this blog address I am posting via was given a green signal construing the further modification and adaptation. The chain of getting afraid prolonged a bit further.Actually I was trying to register my blog URL on Wiki Blog Roll of our course instructor,Robert Elliot, but every time I was writing the blog address either beginning with/out www. or otherwise,but not preceded by an http:// and ended by a slash,/. Eventually it was done, as per 'Trial and Error Theory on Learning' of E.L. Thorn-dike!
The History
Besides this blogging site,as I mentioned earlier, I have also been using wordpress.com-one of the blog sites for a year. In inception I used it as part of my hobby, later I tried to enrich my technical knowledge for honing my virtual academic competence, especially as a repertoire of language and literature repertoire.
Use of Virtual World in Pedagogy
For teaching learning purpose, both academically and professionally I have been using http://neltachoutari.wordpress.com/-a monthly blog on wordpress by/for/of the Nepali teachers of English teaching around the globe-which is really useful for both applying in the classroom and enhancing our praxis in learning as I have recently come to the end of the semester.
At the End
I hope that this blog would be very useful in the days to come for the joiners like us.
Loads of thanks to our course instructor Robert Elliott.
Yubaraj
Hi Yurbaraj: One great thing about using a new tool similar to one you already know is that you think more generally about what you like or dislike with that tool. It gives you a bit of distance, and allows you to see the big picture. Often I find that I can do something with the new tool that I couldn't easily do on the old one, but there sometimes is a way if you look harder.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I think anyone who blogs, for example, should know several blogging tools so that you can choose the best one for what you are doing, and increase overall knowledge. It is a bit like a teacher who looks carefully at several possible books that might be adopted for his/her class rather then just looking at one. It gives you multiple ideas and allows you to better think about what you want to do.
-Robert