Using a Blog to Aid Reflection (or Would Thomas Jefferson Write a Blog?)
March 4, 2008 at 1:48 am 1 comment
Thomas Jefferson said, “One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” Robert Davison, in Learning through Blogging: Graduate Student Experiences, finds that blogs help his students at City University of Hong Kong reflect on what they are learning and on the applicability of it to their jobs. He has them blog both in class and on their own. I think the very prolific Thomas Jefferson would have been an active blogger (although not Twitter or other social networking tools), and, like Robert’s students and me, would have found it aided reflection.
Entry filed under: e-learning, Web 2.0. Tags: blog, reflection, social networking, Thomas Jefferson.
Lisa Gualtieri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine where she teaches Online Consumer Health, Social Media and Health, 
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Mike Gualtieri | March 4, 2008 at 4:42 am
Having just started a blog of my own, I like to think that my cause is as noble as Thomas Jefferson’s. I only have a couple of posts but I find what you say to be true. It does help reflect and organize ideas that would otherwise bounce around in my head and be lost. Jefferson wrote thousands of letters, documents, and notes. What was his secret?