First!

So today we were told what the content of this blog should be. It's more interesting than I expected to be honest. Rather than this blog being a repository for set assignments, our individual assignment is simply "What would you like to learn?" and we must blog about a learning journey of our choice. I enjoy this freedom and have two main ideas. Mostly my choice between the two will come down to what is most practical to actually do. Once I've decided I'll write another blog.

We were also instructed to start a Twitter account, which I am not as pleased about. I don't even want to use Facebook these days because it feels like a chore to keep up with. I just can't see the appeal in pouring time and energy into browsing through lists of people's unfiltered broadcasted internal monologs and retweetings. They say it can be a tool for communicating to a broad audience, but that only works if everyone is Twitter-obsessed and they devote a chunk of their life to sifting through tweets. I would also not want to use Twitter in a classroom environment because it crosses the professional relationship, in the same way I wouldn't add learners on Facebook. Oh well, perhaps I'll be surprised by some functionality Twitter has that I'm unaware of. For my classmate's convenience, my Twitter account is @CatPGCE, same name as in this blog's url.

I'll end each post with something cute, because the world needs more reasons to go "aww".
Today I give you rats with tiny teddy bears!