Why a Blog may be the perfect place to keep you FLCP material

I believe that a blog is the perfect place to maintain an ongoing record of your FLCP. Over the five years of your FLCP, instructors will be creating a vast number of artifacts. These may include:

• Reflections
• Research notes
• Their original FLCP
• Change documents to their original FLCP
• Pictures
• Papers
• and all other manner of evidence in support of their learning

A blog offers you (and others) many advantages over a simple folder on a drive somewhere. Some of these advantages include:

• Access via the web from any computer with a browser
• Vast storage capability
• Tracking and search capability
• The ability to hold many types of digital media, from text, to pictures, links, etc.
• Since the blog itself is digital, it can be linked to from an electronic portfolio
• Time tracking. Dates are posted on all entries into your blog.

Perhaps the most important aspect of blogging is that it can be made available to others. A big part of the FLCP is for us to share our learning. It does not do anyone much good if everyone simply publishes their work at the end of five years. This sharing also allows others to understand the FLCP process better, for you to demonstrate that your work has taken place over time, and for active participants to share ideas, document formats, etc.

Blogging is VERY EASY. Just give me or an official FLCP mentor a call if you want to find out how to do it.

David Russell