{"id":4187,"date":"2016-08-10T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2016-08-10T18:45:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:45:43","slug":"look-back-at-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/look-back-at-random\/","title":{"rendered":"Look back at random"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a fun thing to try if you\u2019ve been blogging for a while (Warning: may not actually be fun). Get a random date from when you started blogging until present (eg using this random date generator<\/a>), find the post nearest that date and revisit it.
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  1. What, if anything, is still relevant?<\/li>\n
  2. What has changed?<\/li>\n
  3. Does this reveal anything more generally about my discipline?<\/li>\n
  4. What is my personal reaction to it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    from: Revisiting my own (blog) past | The Ed TechieThe Ed Techie<\/a><\/p>\n

    I’ve a random button1<\/sup><\/a> here and occasionally look back without the the discipline that Martin Weller suggested.\u00a0 I gave this more thoughtful approach a go.<\/p>\n

    I came up with this:\u00a0Impermanence\u00a0and\u00a0Comments<\/a> from 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

    That post was just a placeholder to link to a favourite post by one of my pupils. There was not much analysis, but hopefully pointing out that pupils posting and engaging with an audience is a powerful tool in the classroom.<\/p>\n

    I do think this is still\u00a0relevant, there are a lot more primary school using Social media and blogging now as there was then. I also think that it is good to have examples of pupils doing the blogging and that can have value. Now it seems like a lot of posts come from teachers as opposed to learners.<\/p>\n

    It is also particularly\u00a0relevant to me as I’ll be returning, with some trepidation, to class teaching after more than eight years next week.<\/p>\n

    What has changes is the average 10 year old is a lot more used to publishing to the\u00a0Internet, plenty use FaceBook, instagram or have a YouTube channel. I wonder if writing<\/em> for the web will have the same excitement.<\/p>\n

    I am not sure such a short post reveals anything about my discipline, except that I’ve\u00a0consistently\u00a0believed that blogging should help to give an audience and purpose to pupil writing and learning.<\/p>\n

    My personal reaction was quiet pleasure at finding the pupil’s poem and the cross continent conversation that went with it. I do hope I can help provide opportunities for pupils to do the same again.<\/p>\n

    Finally I remembered that the Sandaig Site will probably be decommissioned very soon. This made me a little sad. It did let me edit the post and click\u00a0the amber button to send the original poem post\u00a0to the\u00a0Internet archive.<\/p>\n

    \"Screen<\/p>\n

    The Featured image on this post is one of my own flickr photos, created by blending two random CC flickr photos, with this toy<\/a>\u00a0or its slightly older sibling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    1. <\/a> The link on my blog uses a trick appending \/?random<\/strong> to a WordPress blog url gives a random post, I learnt that from an old dog<\/a>. \u21a9<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here\u2019s a fun thing to try if you\u2019ve been blogging for a while (Warning: may not actually be fun). Get a random date from when you started blogging until present (eg using this random date generator), find the post nearest that date and revisit it. …. What, if anything, is still relevant? What has changed? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,21,602,601],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-blogging","9":"tag-classroom","10":"tag-mweller","11":"tag-random","12":"kind-article","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":{"id":4193,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":800,"height":570,"file":"2016\/08\/random-flickr.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"random-flickr-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/random-flickr-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"random-flickr-620x442.jpg","width":620,"height":442,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/random-flickr-620x442.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"random-flickr-768x547.jpg","width":768,"height":547,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/random-flickr-768x547.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"random-flickr-668x476.jpg","width":668,"height":476,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/random-flickr-668x476.jpg"},"sempress-image-post":{"file":"random-flickr-668x476.jpg","width":668,"height":476,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/random-flickr-668x476.jpg"},"rpwe-thumbnail":{"file":"random-flickr-45x45.jpg","width":45,"height":45,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/random-flickr-45x45.jpg"},"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":{"file":"random-flickr-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/random-flickr-50x50.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":4187,"source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/random-flickr.jpg"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/random-flickr.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-15x","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}