In grad school the one thing they pounded into our heads more than anything else was "Reflective Practice," or paying attention to what you are doing so you can reflect and improve as you continue in what you do. If you have something interesting you are working on to share with the rest of us, I say it is a good Reflective Practice to write a blog about it. I have two examples I would like to point out here.
The first example is Jane, who discovered she was bipolar while taking psychology (a subject she has in interested in outside of school) courses at college. What she has said so far on her blog shows deep reflection and progression of thought, and in my opinion is a good example of reflective practice:
http://ourbipolarviews.blogspot.com/
As she continues her studies, I expect to see this blog to go in very exiting directions.
The second example is the blog of "Lord Rybec." He goes from ranting against stimulus in 2009 to in 2014 summarizing research that supports "basic income" as the solution to well, most of the problems in the USA, even from his conservative perspective. He has a lot of other insightful evolution of thought on subjects ranging from education to various health issues:
http://lordrybec.blogspot.com/
No doubt this blog will continue to entertain in the future.
If these two are Jedi of reflective practice blogging, I know a Sith. I met Sub Genius veteran Lance Miller in grad school, who decided to take his one-year graduate certificate and leave before completing the full master's program. The Center for Creative Change of Antioch University (or "C3") has a "Whole Systems Design" (or "WSD") degree that is basically technophobic/Luddite, but which attracts software professionals, creating a vast army of bitter drop outs and disgruntled alumni, but Lance was not content to just be another statistic:
http://progressive-positive.blogspot.com/
In 2007 he was bent on basically preaching heresy by the WSD faculty's standards, with blog posts like "Happy vs. Right" declaring simple contentment in one's own views was insufficient for survival, and generally supporting the status quo view that the WSD faculty despised using C3's own terminology and framing.
However by 2012 he had taken the same concepts he had differences with the Whole Systems Design C3 program over (namely that he thinks technology is good for humanity,) and pushed those ideas into more and more constructive directions, even synthesizing those beliefs with the religious views of others. At the height of this blog he published his manifesto as a very enjoyable and insightful book, "Athena Techne."
My final thought here is that technology more so than anything else has improved our ability to engage in "reflective practice." If any Luddites out there doubt this, try demonstrating your concerns without the internet, phones, radios, telegraphs, electronics, printing presses, pen and paper, mirrors, smoke signals, cave walls and blood, or serene puddles of water and see how effectively you reflect on your own or with others without technology.
