Blogs, CoP and Reflective Cycle continued

Tomorrow I am teaching the undergraduate QTS Year 2 students for a session on Blogs and Web 2.0.  All of them I am sure will be comfortable with the Web2.0 stuff, after all they are the social media generation

(image taken from http://blog.marketing.org.nz/2014/07/07/generation-z-consumers-implications-marketers/)

It will be interesting to see how familiar they are with some of the 'relatively new to schools' Web 2.0 stuff like Mentimeter or Socrative.  Having previously done this session with others year groups it always fascinates me how old fashioned they think blogging is and how limited it appears beside Facebook and Twitter.  To some extent I guess they are right but it still has a vital rule to play in establishing home - school communication and sharing children's learning journeys with parents and carers.

After much procrastination I have decided to use Kolb's Learning Cycle is the reflective cycle for writing my blog.  We will see how this goes.