This has been the first year I have used a blog as a form of self reflective professional development, overall I have found the experience rewarding and a good way to build a portfolio of work and share it with other educators for feedback.  I have also enjoyed writing about my thoughts on the  future of education  and where we are heading with things like web semantics  and learning analytics .  The most popular things I wrote about this year were;   1) Using Google calendar as a lesson planner       This was really great for my own productivity for the year, and along with integration with i-cal on