My experience was a little weird.
When I went on the hunt for edublogger to respond to, I initially ended up finding a couple of them that really spoke to me as both a tech nerd and an aspiring teacher. One of them even asked for suggestions about what to do with his new iPhone 6 (apparently this man had been living in some kind of hellish Mad Max type reality in which phones only had access to EDGE speeds. I have heard whispers of such torture). This seemed great! I could proselytize about one of my favorite mobile devices, AND help a colleague puzzle through how to better use the booming number of student mobile devices in the classroom.
But alas, the comments section was closed.
This would turn out to be a familiar theme (which, If I have to be honest simply means these people are smart; have you seen the comments section on stuff like YouTube? It's the worst. It is truly why we cannot have nice things, like open comments sections on blogs- but I digress.)
When I finally did find a blog that interested me, and had open comments however, I discovered that it was something of a comforting experience. The blogging teacher in question was publishing his own insecurities and fears, which I realized were MY insecurities and fears. Knowing that I was not alone, and that even practicing teachers were puzzling through the problems of how to, (for example) keep the quality consistent in a lesson from one class period to the next (this particular teacher was struggling with the realization that his first hour class always got the rough version of his lessons.) was really eye-opening, and comforting in that misery-loves-company kind of way. If I had to really nail down what it was that I got out of this part of the blogging assignment, it would have to be that feeling of shared community and struggle.
It's nice not to be alone.
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