Thursday, February 28, 2019

How are digital tools used by other educators and what for???

https://www.unleasheducation.co.nz/about/ this is a blog I came across after googling nz educators blogs.  I'm keen to learn more about this.  It was interesting the other day in a supervision session as I was sharing about how my study was going and explaining to my supervisor what I had contributed to the glossary in my endorsement that she was interested in the content.  We got a bit side-tracked but I felt genuinely valued that my supervisor who is an experienced psychologist was interested in something I had to contribute.  It felt like a true moment of natural tuakana teina.




There are so many resources and tools to use and what I find a challenge is intially getting to know how it works and then getting to know who uses it and what for.  I've tried twitter, but I haven't mastered the knack of tweeting and hash tagging and how to add much or contribute much in that arena as a professional and in my brain I have categorised that to professional connections / networking and don't put anything personal on twitter OR LinkedIn.  My personal social digital tool is Facebook.


Another literacy demand in blogging is the visual aspects as I find it quite boring just looking at a whole lot of text, but who wants to take photos of documents and notes?  What visual components do educational bloggers use to make their posts more attractive to readers?  Or is this even important?  Are blogs for a purpose, a particular audience or just a means of expressing meaning?

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