Introductory Blog Post.

Hello!

It's been several years since I kept a blog. I used to write about music, literature, food and my daily observations. Today I am studying for a PGCE and I hope to be a primary school teacher this time next year. When I first blogged I was not particularly interested in who my readership were, or about how I portrayed myself to the world. As a teacher there are so many implications surrounding my use of web 2. 

The children I will be teaching have grown up with the internet as a totally natural part of their lives and will be completely at home using it. I on the other hand became a regular internet user as an adult and am still rather shaky around certain aspects of the interactive virtual world we are all part of. Not only do I have to consider my own online profile from now on, I must also acquaint myself with the ways in which children will be presenting and behaving themselves online, and learn how to harness the educating power of the internet to my classroom.


I am a somewhat reluctant ICT user and I feel that in many ways, the children may actually be able to teach me to appreciate this resource. In this way I feel that this may be the start of a two-way learning journey!