Perseverance pays.
When I started blogging in 2011, few - if any - other teachers in Lebanon were blogging about their teaching or work related matters. In Lebanon, it is much more common to find teachers, especially university academics, blogging about politics and society in general. By 2012, I wished to encourage colleagues to blog so that we could share ideas and connect with each other and with teachers elsewhere. My departmental bloggers’ special interest group struggled to take off last year; fellow instructors of English were interested in the idea but could not find the time to get their blogs going. In any case, we agreed on a set of objectives which are beginning to bear fruit this year:
• encouraging blogging among English Department faculty members by initiating the first AUB blogging community
• maintaining our own, separate blogs in order to
Do stay tuned!
When I started blogging in 2011, few - if any - other teachers in Lebanon were blogging about their teaching or work related matters. In Lebanon, it is much more common to find teachers, especially university academics, blogging about politics and society in general. By 2012, I wished to encourage colleagues to blog so that we could share ideas and connect with each other and with teachers elsewhere. My departmental bloggers’ special interest group struggled to take off last year; fellow instructors of English were interested in the idea but could not find the time to get their blogs going. In any case, we agreed on a set of objectives which are beginning to bear fruit this year:
• encouraging blogging among English Department faculty members by initiating the first AUB blogging community
• maintaining our own, separate blogs in order to
- reflect on our teaching and on writing and language matters in general
- reflect on student issues and workplace issues
- connect and share ideas with colleagues, and possibly with the outside world
Do stay tuned!
