Title: Activity 1.5: Start Your Reflective Learning Blog
Course: Stage 1 - Getting Started with EdTech > Section: 2. Moodle, Course Description & Reflective Learning Journals

Purpose: To start a blog in Moodle with your expectations of, and reflections on this training.

Timing: 30 minutes

Tool: Moodle Blog - see detailed guidance below.

Questions:

1. What do you like from this training so far in relation to your teaching goals?
2. What might make it difficult to achieve  your teaching goals?
3. What are your impressions / points of interest so far?
4. Please tell us if you have been doing some teaching with technology. Would you like to show this to the group briefly in the next live session?

Task: Throughout the EdTech course, we encourage you to use your personal Moodle blog to keep a record of your reflections on what you are learning and to record  any thoughts you have at particular times as you progress.

- Please start by jotting down your answers to the above questions in your blog. (Don't forget to SAVE)

Response: Read the blog posts of other participants, and comment on at least one of them.

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How (guidance): to use the Moodle Blog:

- You will find this feature in the 'Blog Menu' block on the top left hand side of your screen.
- Simply click on the option to 'Add an entry about this Assignment'.
- You will see a text editor similar to all those within this system: Subject/Title, body etc.

Notes:  Extract from Using Blogs (Moodle.org, 2019)

1. The Blog is a site-wide activity in Moodle. However, you have the option to associate your blog entry with your current course and assignment. (This is a way to filter entries about a particular course and an assignment within the course.)
2. In your blog settings there are 2 visibility options:

    - Yourself (draft) (no one else will be able to view - don't use for our training purposes)
    - Anyone on your site (is likely to be on ly seen from within this course) - choose this option.

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