{"id":26,"date":"2014-11-14T17:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/?p=26"},"modified":"2014-11-14T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T17:52:59","slug":"im-not-a-blogger-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/2014\/11\/14\/im-not-a-blogger-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m not a blogger….yet!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Keep<\/a>Am I really doing this… starting my own blog?\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0That was my first response to this idea. \u00a0And yet, after thinking about it further, it isn’t too hard to believe as I am truly immersed in technology in so much of what I do as a teacher. \u00a0Regardless, I still am a bit uncertain about where this blogging journey will take me. \u00a0You see, I am a planner! \u00a0I like to organize and account for the beginning, the middle, and of course the end. \u00a0Herein lies my uncertainty. \u00a0I don’t know where my first post is going to take me…. or where the idea for the next post will come from – yet!<\/p>\n

After attending the first face-to-face session of Cohort 21, I was excited to see how we are planning to use technology to extend our learning as well as our collaboration in this year-long PD experience. \u00a0I was especially struck by the functionality of Diigo and so I introduced it as a key component of the research process in some of my senior classes. \u00a0At first my students were a bit uncertain — perhaps they did not know where this tool would take them. \u00a0Perhaps they also didn’t see the entire picture – yet. \u00a0 And so, we explored together.<\/p>\n

I am happy to say that we are loving the personalized nature of Diigo in enabling individualized research with accountability to sourcing and referencing as a part of the entire process. \u00a0Asking for feedback on this tool, one of my students explained that Diigo has changed how she is able to look at a website with an eye for referencing information and has made this process personally useful to her overall learning. \u00a0What a great connection — one that we may have missed if we hadn’t taken the risk of trying something new together.<\/p>\n

\"Yet\"<\/a>The idea of ‘yet’ is quickly becoming a key word (at my school) that illustrates the growth mindset and willingness to be open to new ideas. \u00a0In exploring Diigo with me, my students demonstrated their mindset to try new things. \u00a0They weren’t sure where the learning would take them, but they were willing to try. \u00a0It turns out, they just didn’t know – yet!<\/p>\n

And so, I am taking this journey of exploration into teaching and learning without knowing where it will lead me…yet. \u00a0I am also excited about blogging about it all, even if I don’t know the ideas or details of my next, and subsequent posts…yet. \u00a0Without taking the risk, I’d never see the end results of this journey.<\/p>\n

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Am I really doing this… starting my own blog?\u00a0\u00a0That was my first response to this idea. \u00a0And yet, after thinking about it further, it isn’t too hard to believe as I am truly immersed in technology in so much of what I do as a teacher. \u00a0Regardless, I still am a bit uncertain about where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[10,8,9,11],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-reflections","category-tech-in-the-classroom","tag-blogging","tag-diigo","tag-growth-mindset","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinaschindler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}