I recently created this online Curriculum Vitae, mainly to simplify my ability to communicate experiences for future career opportunities. But in so doing created a WordPress weblog as you can see - and immediately felt split in whether I should begin to blog and write again as I had done previously.

Don't get me wrong in the past I have been an avid blogger for courses that I have taught in Information Technology in a Global Society (now Digital Society), alongside being involved in Facebook/Twitter accounts on my professional areas of learning. I even tweet regularly on aspects of my coordinator role, my role as TOK teacher etc.

So why so divided?

This then led to a bigger question that presented itself - as my new blog had a crafty and simple feature to link to my LinkedIn account, then I should ensure to publish to LinkedIn as well. In one way I have learnt so much from LinkedIn over the last few years - in fact I would be confident in saying it is where I have learnt most professionally anywhere (and I have also recently completed my National Professional Qualification of Headteaching Certification.)

So I should obviously share my thoughts and ideas. A recent LinkedIn post also made it seem an easy decision from the Corporate Rebels shown below.

"Don't think your article is good enough, publish it anyways." - Corporate Rebels

The argument against, is simple in many ways I find especially the LinkedIn community and educational school accounts as simply a way of self marketing. I know it is obvious, but it does in some ways rankle. I remember a recent colleague whispering to me - 'that teacher tweets all the time, no wonder he is such a poor teacher he has no time to devote to his students.' I disagree, but understand the comment as it is true whatever I or anyone else writes on a weblog, twitter (now X) or through LinkedIn does not validate how good you are as an educator.

So with misgivings equal to my desire to share and publish my ruminations and reflections on education,  you can obviously see what I have decided. Not to publish to begin with!  Thanks to the Corporate Rebels and the Duke of Wellington for leading the way, but I will get there in the end and at least forgive me this is my first post - Rumination No 1!

"Publish and be damned" - Duke of Wellington maybe?