creating community and revitalizing practice: reflective teacher blogging
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Creating Community and Revitalizing Practice
Jeffrey Mattison, La Paz Middle School, Salinas, California
Jennifer Uhler, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
44th Annual TESOL Convention, Boston, Massachusetts
27 March 2010
Self-Introductions
Blogging as Reflective Practice
Outcomes and Pitfalls
Future Outlook
Questions & Answers
Background
Educational Settings� California, Japan,
Jamaica, and Russia
Highlights & Challenges
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Community
Professional Development
IEP
Community
Collaboration
Teacher Connections, Global Reflections
http://teachingwithoutborders.blogspot.com
� Belief in the utility of reflective practice
� Desire for professional development
� Outlet for teacher talk
� Digital experimentation and innovation
Bartlett-Bragg, 2003
4/15/07 - In this blog you can expect to read three posts a week, one from each of us,
with reflections from our classroom or institution activities. We'll ask questions of
ourselves, each other, and our readers to build some dialogue. Please leave
comments to create a conversation!
How did you get started?� Invitation (March 2007)
� Title negotiation
� Blog hosting site
� Reflective entry format
� Tags
� Frequency of posting
� Public
7/6/07 - Thanks to this blog as an outlet for my thoughts!
What features were evident in the initial
blogging stages?� Enthusiasm
� Structured questions from writer
� Conscientious responses from co-bloggers
� Growing awareness of cyber audience
5/12/07 - I'm glad I have this blog as some purpose and
outlet to look at my work through a TESOL lens.
How did your awareness of the reflective process grow
through blogging?
� Extracting meaning for further evaluation
� Future learning from past experiences
� Frequency of posts
� Expression of emotion
� Writing for ourselves
� Emerging trends
2/12/08 - I hope that by writing this blog I’ll be able to
get some ideas from readers…
How were your voices as individuals displayed
in your writing?
� Self-directed writing� Writing styles
� External sources and references
� Learning conversations
Unknown to Others
Known to Others
Known to Self Unknown to Self
Luft and Ingram, 1969
9/30/09 - This blog has helped me to discover or reveal features of my teaching that no observer or video camera could reveal.
How do you think your blog provides guidance
to readers?� Shared experience – you are not alone
� Model of reflective teaching
� Informed, sympathetic, authentic
professional dialog
� Learning opportunities
March 23, 2007 – January 1, 2010
� 100 posts: Jenn (49); Jeff (45); Others (6)
� Averages:
2007 43 posts
2008 27 posts
2009 30 posts� Comments
� Visitor Traffic: 5,377 hits
1. Classroom Management/Behavior
(28+18=46)2. Motivation, Frustration, Burnout
(19+5+6=30)
3. Planning, Curriculum Design (12+5=17)
4. American Culture (12)
5. Flexibility/Adaptability (6+5=11) 6. Environment, Community (6+4=10)
7. Time Management (7)
� TAPoR Corpus Analysis http://portal.tapor.ca
� Analyze keywords in context
� Eg. “awareness” occurs 14 times
� Web Traffic
http://www.sitemeter.com� 8,275 page views
� Visits fall precipitously after privatization
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� Self-review & awareness raising
Jeff - Thanks to this blog, now I’m aware of it.
� Cyclical reflectionJenn - Even though Jeff and I share a commitment to reflection through this blog and I
believe wholeheartedly in systematic, purposeful reflection as a useful tool shaping my
teaching, I sometimes question whether it is a part of everyone's regular practice.
� Advantages of digital mediumJenn - This blog is an excellent outlet for professional conversation and support. It is perhaps one of
the best ways that I can let loose about the lingering questions that I have about my teaching.
� CollegialityJenn - I apologize for neglecting this blog and the collegiality that I find here.
� Active developmentJenn - I believe deeply in the importance of continuing professional development
(probably one of the reasons I am participating in this blog!)
� The world is too small: Public vs. PrivateJeff & Jenn - We removed public access in June 2009.
� Widely different contextsJenn - How do you deal (obviously in a very different context) with hostile
students?
� Over-magnification of insecuritiesJeff - Perhaps these are my own insecurities as a teacher that I'm voicing.
� Attrition, participationHisako - Unfortunately, for personal reasons, I am very sorry to announce that
I won’t be able to continue participating in the regular postings.
� Time Jeff - I apologize for the two weeks of quiet on this blog.� Changing foci and reflective outletsJeff - I realize that going on my third year with this blog, I have regressed
further and further into classroom management and self management.
� Teaching without Borders 3.0?
� Some considerations
What reflective practice has been most
meaningful to you as a TESOL professional?
How do you think technology could enhance that reflection?
� Bartlett-Bragg, A. (2003). Blogging to learn.
The Knowledge Tree: An e-Journal of Flexible Learning in VET, Edition 4. Retrieved from
http://knowledgetree.flexiblelearning.net.au/
edition04/pdf/Blogging_to_Learn.pdf
� For a full list of our Reflective Teaching and
Blogging references, please email us!
Jeffrey Mattison
jsmattison@gmail.com
Jennifer Uhler
jenniferuhler@gmail.com
*For more details on the technical side of how to set up a reflective teaching blog, please
email us!
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