Another Reminder
Teaching journals and blog posts are not the same thing. Your teaching journals are to be kept in a notebook and are reflexive exercises that we will be using as the basis for our teaching philosophy statements that are going to be included in our portfolios. Blog posts are generally going to be used to ask a question, share an exercise, talk about the readings, and share interesting tidbits.
As I have said before I will be collecting the teaching journals twice or so this semester.
Oddly, there seems to be a breakdown in communication with some folks. Some folks are hearing what I say and others are totally missing it. If you look at the course description you will see that journals, cohort observations, and other things are detailed there as well as having been pointed out in class. You are responsible for getting these things done if you are going to successfully complete this practicum.
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Not an excuse, but...
I think part of the miscommunication has been caused by the wording in our course description, which states: "We will keep a journal of our teaching experience for discussion on practice weeks. These journals will be kept electronically." Of course, I realize that you probably amended this clause during our week one sessions, and some of us simply missed it. But we were all so busy processing so many things that, as you suggest in your email, it would be a good idea to go over the requirements of the practicum one more time (with computers off) just to make sure we all get it.
true. It may be a case of
true. It may be a case of clarification, because electronically doesn't mean (necessarily) online. During orientation the group decided that they wanted to keep them either in a notebook or as a running word file as mentioned in the comment below.
Notebook v. electronic?
I assume it's alright if we keep our journals in an ongoing Word document instead of a notebook and simply print them off for you when you want to collect them? I operate better on a computer....
yep, it is fine to do it
yep, it is fine to do it that was as we discussed.