After spending some time reading other people’s ePortfolio blog posts this morning, I have come away quite enlightened. Throughout the time I have spent writing my blog posts, reflecting on my personal development and discovering new aspects of the curriculum, I have adapted and improved my blogs as I have been inspired by the other posts I have read.
One of my more recent discoveries was how to align pictures alongside text as I think that it makes the blog nicer to look at and easier to read. This is something that I have seen done by
many others and wanted to incorporate it into my own posts.
Something else that I would like to start integrating into my posts is direct links to professional practice and more references to academic text. This will take more time and commitment on my part but ultimately I will need to take this step forward in order to further my professional development.
One of the most exciting posts that I read today was about classroom management. This post used the computer game ‘Sims 4’ to design the layout of a classroom. (See below)
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/cebeportfolio/2016/01/06/180/
As I was reading this post I felt lots of little light bulbs going off in my head. What a great
example of thinking outside the box! It reminded me that with education the sky really is the limit. If more of us were to take that step outside of the box then just imagine how the future of education could be transformed. This has inspired not only the way I write my blog posts but the way I look at how I will be an engaging and fun teacher, whilst focusing on the 8 key areas of the curriculum. As is highlighted in the Disney film ‘Big Hero Six’, you sometimes need to look for a new angle.