Week 1 Reflections on blogging

Hello my dear colleagues!

I would like to make this post a record of how I went about creating a blog in our first week. have to admit that what made setting it up a bit difficult for me was thinking ahead too much – already trying to imagine what my first post would be about, what I may use it for in future, how I am going to change the template. Planning ahead, anticipating next steps, useful as it may be, has been keeping me from the here and now for awhile.

One of the lessons so far has been that whatever we do, we should try to do it one step at a time. Like adding small improvements to the design, making my blog a cozier place for myself and its followers. This is what I would like to do. Or, even more importantly, learning how to manage your time around the tasks that we are assigned.

Personally, I like to make sense of the world through analogies. They somehow enable me to deal with novel situations, facing the uncertainty of the unknown by relying on the familiar. At this early stage, blogging is like muscle strain, like opening a book with so many new pages to read, reading and being read at the same time, like learning a new language and having to communicate in it immediately.

I hope that with time there will be fewer sore muscles, the mixed feelings of excitement, pride and frustration gradually giving way to the CanDo feeling. But it is to be (l)earned yet. I hope I will be proud to look at this first post in a few weeks when I get more experience and confidence.

I also look forward to reading my colleagues’ blogs and discussion posts, sharing comments, pieces of mind, academic expertise, professional views – via blog, wiki and elsewhere. This is the experience ahead to look forward to.

And one should be honest to oneself – we are making progress.

I invite you to visit this blog in future. Thanks for caring and sharing.

Andreja