So, here I am again almost an entire year later.
Why haven't I been here you ask? ...
Was I bored with the idea of a blog?
No.
Was it too hard for me?
No.
Did I not have the time?
No.
Do you live in a particular country and due to the firewall were unable to access your own blog?
Bingo. A little ridiculous? I think so. Instead of blocking only information deemed block-worthy, they have decided just to block entire access to sites, no no, good idea; much easier that way (!!)
To access facebook, blogs, youtube and a plethora of other assorted goodies I have (after using various proxies - which have one by one been discovered) bought a VPN. 6 months ago I didn't know what a VPN was, so even though I haven't been able to explore the world of ICTs to the extent I'd like to, I suppose I could take something away from the fact that I'm still learning something.
It makes me a little sad though that I, and many like me, cannot set up something as innocent as a blog to experiment and explore ICTs and their applications in education. My motivations, as mentioned in the first post have not changed - I still want to make my classes relevant and more interesting for today's students - now I'll just have to find different ways to do so.
I used to teach a lot with youtube. As a literature and English language teacher I would show speeches, ads (to analyse), various news broadcasts and even self-uploaded bits and pieces by the youth of today to use when discussing youth issues etc - this has now been made more difficult.
So the task now is to find alternatives to make it relevant, to fine alternative ways to include technology in my lessons.
hmmmmm.......
Where the hec do I start? To research!
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