Homework Week 1: Blog Posts

This week we were given a task of finding learning blogs and pick three blogs we thought were best and evaluate them. These are what I’ve found.

Steve Wheeler’s blog titled “learning with‘e’s” means the guy must have a sense of humour right? I had a look at his Danger Illustrated blog on October 2^nd 2015 because it was about critical thinking. He says that students struggle with it and I can definitely relate to that! He gives an example of how to critically analyse a bottle of water, he gives ideas that I certainly wouldn’t have thought of but he says there are “endless possibilities” to critical analysis, but to really help us students, a few more examples would have been great! However I’ll probably use this blog to remind me how to be a critical thinker in the future!

The second blog I read/ watched was by Cathy Moore dated 21^st July 2013. I like the title to her blog, “let’s save the world from boring training” if only all education sectors and employers thought the same eh! She’s made a short video on how to improve training and although it’s good, it’s not for the slow reader. I wouldn’t call myself a slow reader but even I had to pause and rewind! On the whole she has great ideas on using different ways to teach, like she says we don’t all learn the same way.

Finally I enjoyed reading Craig Weiss’ blog it ‘bothers me-what about you?’ dated 4th August 2015. This blog is something most of us can relate to. Amongst other things he tells us how it bothers him how once you sign up for something that’s “free” you end up getting a bunch of marketing calls, emails and newsletters that you didn’t ask for. It’s true, I signed up for online bingo once, and now I’m inundated with offers to join casinos and other gambling websites, I’m sure they do a good job of keeping gamblers anonymous going! So I liked that I could relate to some of this blog but he uses a lot of abbreviations that I can’t work out, I don’t know if it’s me that thick or him showing off!