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I've been wanting to have a blog for a while, to talk about my e-tutoring and the students I support online. Two reasons for that: clarifying my ideas, and letting students know what's behind my decisions as e-tutor.

What's prompted me to start is a course I've just started about using social media for learning, taught by Oxford Brookes University. I need to create a blog to reflect on my learning as a student. So I'll end up using a very different voice from the one I anticipated when I first thought of blogging. This feels disconcerting and somewhat humbling, but this should help me understand students better.
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