Scribbler's Den

I have two days left of the school year before the lengthy Christmas summer break.  Work is winding up with reporting, monitoring, verification and moderation all over.  Tomorrow we go to Dreamworld on a rewards day with the Year 8s and 9s.  I now have time to sit back and reflect on the year: to think of what I could have done or should have done.  I know from experience that I cannot wait until after the break to reflect.  If I do my recollections will be blurry and indistinct.  If you can't reflect with vigour and clarity then the goals that come from such analysis will lack direction and appropriateness.  With the memories of my lesson failures and exuberant rushes of success still clear in my mind reflection is easy. 

I like reflecting on my teaching practice because it always leads onto setting goals.  I love setting goals.  I love writing them down, tinkering with the phrasing, breaking each goal down into baby steps.  I am an ideas man at heart.  My mind is a flood right now with ideas and strategies for the new year and my new classes.  Now is the time to plan because if I leave it until late January I will have lost the scent.  So I will post soon with my goals for teaching.

The same goes with this website.  It is time to set some goals for Scribbler's Den.  I wil be honest though.  I hadn't even thought of setting goals for this website until I read Daniel Scocco's post at Daily Blog Tips.  Scribbler's Den is six months old and if I am going to be honest with myself I have not blogged here anywhere near as much as I would have liked.

Here are my goals for Scribbler's Den;

• Increase traffic from sources other than Teacher Lingo

• Get 100 RSS subscribers

• Blog at least once a week.

• Learn Basics of Photoshop over Christmas and create a banner for this site.

I will be editing this over the next few weeks so the list will definitely grow.

Comments (2)

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written by Scribbler, December 31, 2008

Thanks for your interest Gala. I teach a few humanities subjects, nothing technical though. I will check out your blog.

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written by Gala, December 30, 2008

I have got a question, not a comment. What subject do you teach? Now I teach English at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Czech Republic. I am looking for applicants, mainly from English speaking countries, who want participate in our discussion on technical topics through SKYPE (see my blog). May be it is interesting for you?
Best regards