Round 2 (from 3rd Oct 2007) October 20, 2007
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Well, here I am again, less than 24 hours later. Who would have guessed?
Actually, this was going to be part of a reply to a comment that Sue left on my first post, but after it started to get a bit long I thought to myself, “What I really need is a way to expand on all of these thoughts that are running through my head. Something that would allow me to express what I am thinking in an introspective, yet public manner.” But where was I to find such a forum?
Yes, you’ve probably guessed where I’m heading with this, but hey! Run with me here people. I’m discovering a new medium (don’t remind me that I’m any number of years behind your average 14 year old).
Anyway, enough of the silliness and to the point. In a reply to my first post, Sue made the comment “It was only when I started blogging in April this year I realised why I should blog”. This has got me thinking/wondering. How many opportunities have we missed just because we dismissed something as being irrelevant or unnecessary? As discussed yesterday, I know I am guilty of this.
In the immortal words of Pepe Le Pew,
“until you have tried it, do not knock it”. It’s easy to stand on the outside and pick holes in something, but for a truly valid opinion you need to have at least peeked inside. I wouldn’t go as far as saying I’m a convert, but at least I am exploring.
After all … what’s the worst that could happen?
Pride and Prejudice (from 2nd Oct 2007) October 20, 2007
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So, here I am. Writing a Blog entry.
I hear deep breathing and an ominous, gasping voice whispering to me, “Welcome to the Dark Side”.
I have never written a blog and have spent very little time even looking at them. To my mind I couldn’t disassociate blogs from the concept of adolescent diaries, full of teenage angst ranting against the unfairness of it all… “Its, like, you know, like, so totally unfair” or those ranting and raving against the system; hollow revolutionaries whose only defence against “the system” is to quote, with predictable pseudo-intellectual fervour, the words of greater minds who have gone before.
OK, so I’m exaggerating a little here, and being quite unfair – I am aware of this, but until recently I could see no real practical educational use for this process. The reality was that I viewed blogs as online diaries, and I have never fancied the concept of reading other people’s diaries (let’s be honest – for the most part they’re a case of “Dear Diary today I did this and then I did that. … blah blah blah … snore). What little I had seen of blogs previously pretty much confirmed my view.
The I began looking over some of the blogs available through here and edna, I have come to lessen my stance somewhat – only somewhat mind you (pride does dictate). Some of what I have delved into has confirmed my former suspicions. And some opened a new world of potential; perhaps there is something to this blogging thing after all. The mind has been ticking over as to how we can incorporate these into some of our training practices and there are some very distinct possibilities.
I can admit when I am wrong: one prejudice overcome. Who knows, maybe there may even be a follow-up post to this one. And if we are really lucky, it may even have some substance, rather that being just a rant.
Life is just sooo unfair!
