Hello! My name is Carys and I am a first year education student going in for Elementary Education. I’m from Weyburn, Saskatchewan and have a background in Inclusive childcare as well as coaching cheerleading for 2-12 year-olds! I am not very experienced with educational technology – this is my first tech class I’ve participated in!
I have never blogged before so coming in I was nervous on how I would go about blogging in general. Would it feel tedious? Would I remember to go in and do it every week? Would I figure out how to navigate my website? I very quickly cast my doubts aside when I looked at the EDTC300 chat on Discord! Even before we started creating our blogs, just reading everyone’s introduction posts and helping each other out with questions in class really reassured me that even if I come across a problem, I can go to my classmates and get help from them!
It even inspired me to look through articles and videos on how to be a good blogger. I mostly focused on how to keep up a blog schedule as going in, this will likely be my biggest struggle on keeping up with my work and not falling behind. One goal I’m going to focus on is making and completing a task list. This is as simple as going into my notes app and writing all the things I have to do and categorizing them by when they have to be done. Already, it has helped me get a few days ahead in some of my classes and personal daily tasks.
I am so excited to embark on this journey with all of you!
Hey Carys!
I enjoyed reading your introduction and getting to know a bit more about you! I think your background in inclusive childcare and your experience coaching cheerleading will be a great asset to you as you go along on your journey to become an educator!
I appreciate your willingness to share your initial worries and hesitations around blogging. That is brave! I definitely can relate to these feelings, as I have never blogged before this class, nor read many blogs, so it seems like a daunting task at times. I believe staying on track and not falling behind on the blogs will be my greatest challenge too. I am glad to hear you have found a strategy to help you thus far!
I look forward to following your blogging journey 😊
Thank you so much! Inclusive childcare is definitely my passion! I definitely think we’re not alone with our worries. Trying anything new can but scary but I think we have a great community to help us! Can’t wait to follow each other’s journey’s!