Using a Blog was a completely new concept to me as a tool for writing and communication but I have found it surprisingly simple and effective to use. I have enjoyed reflecting on my use of ICT through it and feel that it has been a beneficial exercise to really get me thinking about the ICT use and provisions at the school I am working in. I hope this will make me think about any barriers and opportunities for ICT in the future schools I work within.

I was initially a bit nervous about posting pictures onto the Blog as it took me a couple of attempts to get my first picture on there but once that first one was done, I found it fairly easy. I have also been using a Blog for my Bean Project in Science and have posted several pictures relating to this with explanations and labels. This has been a really important part of the Blog so I could track the progress of my bean. It also meant I could go onto the Blog at any point and look at how the other members of my group were getting on with their beans, which was really useful.

I had a comment on my Blog from a PGCE student at Northampton University, who had stumbled across my Blog entries and wanted to share her link with me. It is a Blog for all the students on her course as a place where they can share ideas, resources and tips. Using Blogs could therefore, not only be a great way for me to reflect over my practice and communicate with my university colleagues but also a great way to make links with other PGCE courses across the country. Building these connections could expand our resources base even further, which is always helpful when thinking about new ideas to use when planning lessons. Their link is http://pgceprimary.blogspot.com/ if anyone else is interested in using them to share ideas and resources in the future.

This Blog has been really useful for me as a tool for facilitating my reflective writing about ICT and it has really made me think about the ICT opportunities around me. Using this Blog has also been a great communication tool for making a link with another university PGCE course. My Science project has also been made a lot easier through knowing how to use a Blog and communicating about the project through it. I found it easy to use and it didn’t take me long to get used to the software. Overall, I found that writing this Blog has been a really useful task as part of the PGCE course.