Blogging and trainee teachers’ professional development
Blogging or writing of e-journals is a reasonably new phenomenon. Even teachers trainee, trainee teachers and teacher trainers beginning to understand blogging and the further dimension to this form of journal is making a presence-moblogging or mobile blogging.
A study was carried out on 24 in-service trainee teachers. First to provide the trainee teachers a first hand experience of using computer-mediated applications as part of their professional development and to boost up their confident. Second, to provide the trainee teachers experience of reflecting on their reading of dramatic texts.
Warschauer and Healey (1998), state that “the rise of computer-mediated communications and the internet have reshaped the uses of computers for language learning at the end of 20th century”. It also features the time-place independence. For the purpose of this study, professional development is described as “the process of reflection, examination and change, which leads to better job performance and to personal and professional growth.
Blogging has brought interest in learners to write. Typically updated daily blogs often reflect the personality of the author. Studies indicate that teacher trainees enjoy blogging and found to be useful by their instructors. Some found blogging easy and recommended it for future use. Journal and journaling is applicable to blogs and blogging. Journaling may facilitate reflective practice the mere act of writing entries. Journal is an important means of gathering information.
There is indeed much literature in the field of reflection in relation to professional development. There is a close link between reflection and thinking and not just recalling. Two significant works on the types of reflection are provided.
Advantages of blogging
· So far as I may concern, I feel that blogging gives advantages to
both the writer of the blog and their readers.
· Blogging allows the writer to write what they want to write. Its
Like letting your emotions and feelings to flow.
· There is no one who’s going to judge what you have written.
· The whole world or probably half of the world will read your blog
Disadvantages of blogging
· Although there will no one to judge our writings, but we will be surprised with comments we’ll receive from readers
· Good comments are an encouragement for us. It will make us fell want to write and post more blogs.
· Bad comment is a discouragement. It maybe will make us to stop writing blogs. If we able to take the bad comments as a challenge, we’ll try our best to write better and improve our skills.
MY EXPERIENCE
· When I was first given the task to prepare a blog, I went WHAT. I really don’t understand what blog is. Maybe now I have learned to understand but yet I still face some problems occur whenever I tried to post my blog.
· I have to learn how to write in a proper way (since this is one of my course assignments).Although I have gone through nearly three blogs, I still know that my writing skill is not that good.
· What ever I’m doing now is what I feel about my course. I’m happy when my blogs were post. I gain a complete satisfaction.
Blogging or writing of e-journals is a reasonably new phenomenon. Even teachers trainee, trainee teachers and teacher trainers beginning to understand blogging and the further dimension to this form of journal is making a presence-moblogging or mobile blogging.
A study was carried out on 24 in-service trainee teachers. First to provide the trainee teachers a first hand experience of using computer-mediated applications as part of their professional development and to boost up their confident. Second, to provide the trainee teachers experience of reflecting on their reading of dramatic texts.
Warschauer and Healey (1998), state that “the rise of computer-mediated communications and the internet have reshaped the uses of computers for language learning at the end of 20th century”. It also features the time-place independence. For the purpose of this study, professional development is described as “the process of reflection, examination and change, which leads to better job performance and to personal and professional growth.
Blogging has brought interest in learners to write. Typically updated daily blogs often reflect the personality of the author. Studies indicate that teacher trainees enjoy blogging and found to be useful by their instructors. Some found blogging easy and recommended it for future use. Journal and journaling is applicable to blogs and blogging. Journaling may facilitate reflective practice the mere act of writing entries. Journal is an important means of gathering information.
There is indeed much literature in the field of reflection in relation to professional development. There is a close link between reflection and thinking and not just recalling. Two significant works on the types of reflection are provided.
Advantages of blogging
· So far as I may concern, I feel that blogging gives advantages to
both the writer of the blog and their readers.
· Blogging allows the writer to write what they want to write. Its
Like letting your emotions and feelings to flow.
· There is no one who’s going to judge what you have written.
· The whole world or probably half of the world will read your blog
Disadvantages of blogging
· Although there will no one to judge our writings, but we will be surprised with comments we’ll receive from readers
· Good comments are an encouragement for us. It will make us fell want to write and post more blogs.
· Bad comment is a discouragement. It maybe will make us to stop writing blogs. If we able to take the bad comments as a challenge, we’ll try our best to write better and improve our skills.
MY EXPERIENCE
· When I was first given the task to prepare a blog, I went WHAT. I really don’t understand what blog is. Maybe now I have learned to understand but yet I still face some problems occur whenever I tried to post my blog.
· I have to learn how to write in a proper way (since this is one of my course assignments).Although I have gone through nearly three blogs, I still know that my writing skill is not that good.
· What ever I’m doing now is what I feel about my course. I’m happy when my blogs were post. I gain a complete satisfaction.
1 comment:
Good observation and write up. Just that the font color must be of opposite of the background so that we could read the content easier.
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