Steph's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog

part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh

Archive for October 8th, 2011


My experience of blogging

My entire working day is spent (in the physical form) with people; observing, listening and speaking.  In any given situation, being receptive/collating information, synthesising and regurgitating information with meaning and ambition to improve understanding of the initial situation is no new concept.  However, sharing a regurgitation in written form, online is new and challenging.  I am caught somewhere in the conflict between…..

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt” (Abraham Lincoln taken from Solomon’s Proverbs)

and…. “Everyone talks of changing the world, but no one talks of changing himself” (Leo Tolstoy). 

So that said, I am prepared to risk proving Mr Lincoln right.  Motivated by a vision of improving myself (and perhaps with some good fortune) I hope embark upon producing contributions that may produce a change, however small, in the world.  This greater vision begins with collating my notes/thoughts and publishing some summaries from weeks 1-3.