So, having said I'd kick-start his blog into life to help with my studies after the Week 10 activity on blogging, we're now one month later and I haven't posted anything.
Best laid plans of mice and h800 students and all that.
In going back into the other activities, I must admit during the week's, while there were occasions where I though "oh yes, I must post some thoughts to that blog", most of the time I just completely forgot about it. Even at the points I did think about it, I was in the middle of doing another activity. Then you get to the end of the activity, stop and hey presto the intention has got burried alive by other thoughts.
In H808, there was more incentive to blog as you needed to demonstrate reflection for the assessment, but also I think (although this may just be my memory of the course being wrong) that there were more activities suggesting things to blog about.
This was one of the things I mentioned to Shaun in the forums, in that personally I would find it easier to blog on here if there were occasional prompts of ideas to blog about.
With a lot of the activities on the course, they give you points to think about, and we all write down our thoughts as posts in the forums. At which point the vast majority of my thinking has already been written about either in my initial posts or in the replies on there. If I have anything more I feel I need to add, I tend to add it to the forum.
I've just been relistening to the elluminate session we had the other week to get some thoughts out of it for the TMA. Most of the discussions there are things that we've discussed in the forums, but with Shaun raising thoughts and questions it gives you another prompt to rethink in the light of.
The main reason I've come back to the blog now, is because I've had a prompt to rethink how I've approach the blog in the form of TMA2 without this I think it would have probably continued to sit here collecting dust for a bit longer.