It’s easy for me to review my older posts on Blogger as if I’m reading someone else’s writing. I practically am someone else. This person who has been blogging under my name uses words to review technology that I would not have believed myself capable of. While I can think back to when I wrote each blog and remember why I wrote the things I wrote it still always feels surreal to read my own writing. Sometimes I’ll read something and think, “Hmm, interesting choice of words. What was I thinking?” Sometimes I’ll think, “Wow, this sounds intelligent.” It’s like once I start writing I become capable of thinking in ways my normal conscience has not acquired.
The theme I found most often in my review of my personal blogs was my desire for every activity to be fun for my students. This really makes me feel like I’m reading a stranger’s blog. In theory, I really do want my students to have fun learning but I rarely feel “fun” these days. I guess this is just at the heart my teaching philosophy so hopefully that shines through in the classroom. Rereading my blogs gave me the opportunity to reflect on how frightened I was of technology in the classroom at the beginning of the semester and how I write about it like it’s commonplace for me now. It’s still not commonplace but I’m clearly beginning to understand and use the language associated with incorporating technology in the classroom and that gives me hope for my ability to actually use what I have learned.
