Turtle Eyeland provides me a venue to document my progress in a more personalized way than I have been with my other blog. Since it is on blogger rather than wordpress, it also allows for formatting my posts differently and with more control. So when wordpress is overly prohibitive, I will post to here.
Here is an excerpt from the welcome page at People's Health that describes how and why I began blogging in relation to school:
Experimenting with blogs and all things Cyberian in the service of learning
As a returning (nontraditional) student, almost starting from scratch, I began attending my local community college at circa 36 years and will transfer on to get a Masters of Social Work. Right now I am working on a Bachelor in Social Work. Having received my Associates in Human Services, I am planning on getting a degree at every stage, along with a certification or two.
I began this blog when my major was exercise science and have since expanded its scope to include the whole person, reflecting my past and current studies.
I post articles and sources that relate to the subjects I am researching. It has become a sort of bibliography or an aggregate of sources and things that I come across and think useful or interesting while researching.
Keeping a blog for learning purposes began as a trick of sorts. I had noticed that I spent a lot of time on the computer. Inevitably I would end up surfing the net to avoid my studies. I made a deal with myself to stick to surfing within the lines of whatever I was researching at the time. That way I could at the very least fell like I was being constructive. I think of this process as a Cyberian brainstorming of sorts. So after letting loose and collecting all kinds of random material on my research topics, whatever catches my interest, I post the good finds to my blog so that I can remember them and find them easily if I need to. It is flattering to see that other people find the materials and blog of interest since it wasn’t intended for others in the beginning. Now that I see that others are interested, I am inclined to post more with the intent to share more of the information that I find. Please feel free to comment and begin discussions on any post you find of interest.
Along with the above use of blogging as an aid in learning, I want to explore other uses for blogging and related Cyberian resources that can be used to aid and further learning and sharing information. I will insert more media and resources into this blog as I become aware of new things and ways that I find useful to learning.
Networking, brainstorming, multimedia, exploration of learning methods and models are some of the things I will include as this blog continues to unfold.
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