How did the blog influence my learning?

Problems

• Not so much communication as I hoped with other students
• Sometimes it was annoying because I couldn’t solve problems (attitude for comments, upload a ppt with slideshare at the beginning…)
• Need a computer to get work done

Advantages

• It was interesting to try new things (learning by doing, when you hear things it seems to be easy, but by doing it yourself you notice where the difficulties are and really understand it)
• Could decide myself how to use the blog
• Always able to get an overview about all things going on in the seminar (look what I’ve written so far, read other blogs, look on the seminar page which is linked at my own site so I visited it a lot)
• There were tasks during  the whole semester, so it was easier to do the work
• Possibility to look what the others did
• Additionally I improved my English a bit, because while writing in my blog I looked up vocabulary

Most valuable content in my blog

The most interesting contents in my blog for myself are the thoughts about my learning environment. It helped me to think about how I might change some things and I already tried to do mobile-learning at the train instead of none-learning stuff. It worked very well.

For other people I guess it’s our group work about micro- and mobile-learning and for other students of the seminar maybe the reflection of our online session just to compare it with their own thoughts!

How to connect content from this seminar to the rest of my studies

• I already created a wiki for another seminar this semester. I use it with my group and the others liked the idea. I guess a wiki can be helpful in a lot of different situations.
• My plan is to keep my blog and put in my presentations from other seminars and write down what’s important for me. So when I will have to learn for my exams I can use my blog.
• Of course the technical skills I learned are important for lots of other seminars