A couple of discussions today leapt out at me – one with I_like and the other with PC (why are you not linkable?!)
When I started writing here, I wrote for me – whether anyone else was reading or not was completely irrelevant. It was a few posts before anyone commented and whilst that fact held an amount of trepidation (yes, other people were reading this), I carried on regardless. Hopefully what made this slice of the world-wide-inter-webby-thingy remotely useful was that I was being honest in my own voice about the things I was involved with in Scottish education.
So what happened? Why did I feel able to comment when I was with my previous employer, but less able to comment with my present employer? What changed? At no point has anyone said to me over the last year ‘you can’t blog about this’ – indeed, if anything, the documentation at my present employer would positively encourage me to do otherwise. Did the stakes become higher? Did I panic at giving my opinion on something that I am involved in day to day that has cost a significant amount of money? Possibly.
I’m troubled by the fact that the last few posts I have given here have only been related to the positive side of my project work. I’m concerned that my own voice has been diminished on my own site, when frankly neither RM nor LTS need my assistance in marketing (I probably get in the way if I think about it!)
So this is just a quick post to say that I’m back. What I have to say may be challenging, but if I’m wrong them argue with me and tell me where I’m mistaken. As the past has shown here, I’m more than happy to learn in public. I would hope that throughout all discussions, I have the best of intentions at heart: improving the learning experience for those involved in Scottish Education.
photo credit: monsieurlam.
