Adrian Miles’ reading made me have a bit of a lightbulb moment about what this course is about/ aiming to do. The idea is about using a blog to engage in a different style of contemporary learning. It links in nicely with that other confusing reading about different approaches to learning such as double loop learning.

Having a blog allows you to think out your ideas and implement this whole concept of “The Takeaway Idea”. You can easily record your ideas, reflections, thoughts, activities and ramblings and develop your individual online persona. There’s the knowledge that your blog will be read by others and the notion of belonging to a community of other bloggers.

I started up my own personal blog at the beginning of 2012 keen to start developing my writing, my online persona and produce an online portfolio of my work. It led to me being offered an internship with The Teenage Girl’s Survival Guide and later Couturing Magazine. Both sites are aimed at different markets- I write monthly book reviews and an advice column for the former and beauty reviews for the latter- however, I re-blog all my posts once published onto my own blog.

I love writing and the idea of blogging and am hoping this course can make me become a more successful blogger. I’d love to produce some more original content for my personal blog rather than simply re-blogging work published on other sites. While I get the occasional comments from members of the blogging world I really want to learn how to maximise this interaction!