After a very busy week at work teaching Swiss teachers, a lecture on Research (first week back at uni) and my first contact with my dissertation tutor, the pressure is on.

After much pondering and sharing of ideas with my colleagues, I have come to the decision of focussing on blogs in my dissertation despite any doubts I have had until now. The fact that there has not been much research on blogs should make this research more challenging and exciting.

So the plan is to meet my tutor on Monday and my new class who will be hopefully helping me out for this project. Firstly, will read about Anne-BarlettBragg's blogging process this weekend and aim to write up a page outlining my ideas for my tutor. Secondly, I need to think about how I will get students to set up their own blogs in their first week and develop a rough plan/guide of integrating it in to our lessons and setting students tasks for their own blogs. The aim is to encourage use and more use with clear learning outcomes that are obvious to both learners and educators. Hopefully, my next post will be less of stream of consciousness and will consist of more of sensible and organised ideas.