{"id":90,"date":"2011-07-07T13:21:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T18:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/?p=90"},"modified":"2011-07-07T13:21:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T18:21:54","slug":"something-to-keep-me-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/2011\/07\/07\/something-to-keep-me-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Something to keep me going."},"content":{"rendered":"

I just ran into this blog through WiredEducator on Twitter – http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5wqr9w3<\/a>.\u00a0 As I’ve mentioned before I really do had all intentions of actually being consistent in my blogging, but I often find that I have a good 2-3 week run and then have no posts for 4-5 months.\u00a0 This blog gives 7 pretty good reasons why all educators should blog.<\/p>\n

I especially like items 1 (Practice what you Teach) and 4 (Expand your Classroom).\u00a0 Practicing what you teach is the quality of a good instructor.\u00a0 I have the same philosophy about leadership as I do about teaching…I do not expect my students to do things that I myself will not do.\u00a0 If I believe that writing is an important skill for my students, then I should also write.\u00a0 Not just once in a while, but often and using different modalities.\u00a0 At Morningside we will begin having our freshman class create e-portfolios of their written work.\u00a0 I plan to integrate this into my General Psychology class.\u00a0 I have not yet thought what all I want my students to place in their writing portfolio – certainly the process of their major project in the class – but possibly other things like a personal blog that has them look for psychology concepts in their daily lives.<\/p>\n

Item 4 – Expanding your Classroom –\u00a0 shows in reality a 2-way street.\u00a0 Not only can my students read my own blog and see what interests me and what I am up to outside of the confines of the classroom, but it also allows for others to read about and contact me in a form of professional development.\u00a0 This is a way to share what I am doing with anyone else that might actually read this.<\/p>\n

So with that said, perhaps these 7 reasons to blog will remind me to use this forum in more different ways.\u00a0 Not only when I feel the urge to write, but also to give shorter posts about interesting articles, research, shows to share with others, to use as a way to catalog some accomplishments and small goals reached, and of course to learn more.\u00a0 Knowing that I have a blog to maintain should give me some more incentive to pay attention to the new things I am learning and run across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just ran into this blog through WiredEducator on Twitter – http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5wqr9w3.\u00a0 As I’ve mentioned before I really do had all intentions of actually being consistent in my blogging, but I often find that I have a good 2-3 week run and then have no posts for 4-5 months.\u00a0 This blog gives 7 pretty good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writingblogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}