Sunday, February 23, 2003
Hmm, some posts might have been lost--I've been trying to record the patterns of weblog use in my classes, but those entries don't seem to be here. Maybe we can find them later.
Just wanted to say today that on Friday, I had a conversation with my "lead blogger" from IWS about why the blog had gone quiet. He said he checks, but because there is nothing to respond to, he doesn't want to keep hogging the space. i said I wasn't posting because I wanted the students to feel like it wasn't an extension of a lecture. So, I posted a very simply link, and two people responded to it pretty quickly. Looks like finding the right dynamic is a bit tricky.
Just wanted to say today that on Friday, I had a conversation with my "lead blogger" from IWS about why the blog had gone quiet. He said he checks, but because there is nothing to respond to, he doesn't want to keep hogging the space. i said I wasn't posting because I wanted the students to feel like it wasn't an extension of a lecture. So, I posted a very simply link, and two people responded to it pretty quickly. Looks like finding the right dynamic is a bit tricky.
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Blogging in the Intro WS class has been very slow (although one nice community building post), and the Comp Theory class is doing the assigned blogging, but no chit-chat community building. They probably see enough of each other!
Saturday, February 08, 2003
Sybil, you are going to love the McLuhan Program Blog for a number of reasons:
1. It's a blog.
2. The blogger sees the Simpson's as the "anti-environment."
3. The blogger sees the blog as a retrieval of the personal diary. See Jan. 3, 03.
I'm excited to see the McLuhan Program blogging--should be a gold mine for ideas.
1. It's a blog.
2. The blogger sees the Simpson's as the "anti-environment."
3. The blogger sees the blog as a retrieval of the personal diary. See Jan. 3, 03.
I'm excited to see the McLuhan Program blogging--should be a gold mine for ideas.
Friday, February 07, 2003
Just read and caught up on the Comp Theory blog--I love having such a huge record or our classes' thoughts. Much better than everyone writing to me, me responding to them, no one talking to each other.
I also think Cindy's love of the scroll is relevant here too--much better than a threaded discussion. I want to write a paper just on blogging vs blackboard discussions. Anybody want to join me?
And I am thinking of Sybil's linguistics paper and blogging. I think it would be very easy to do a quick linguistic analysis of how much our class blogs respond to one another--in ways that seem better than I have seen on threaded discussions. This paper is practically going to write itself!
I also think Cindy's love of the scroll is relevant here too--much better than a threaded discussion. I want to write a paper just on blogging vs blackboard discussions. Anybody want to join me?
And I am thinking of Sybil's linguistics paper and blogging. I think it would be very easy to do a quick linguistic analysis of how much our class blogs respond to one another--in ways that seem better than I have seen on threaded discussions. This paper is practically going to write itself!
Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Three weeks into the semester, I sense already that students might be a little too busy to bother blogging. I think things are going okay--no ranting this semester, I promise--but my IWS students pretty much just blog when I tell them to, and the CompTheory class is much the same way. Sybil takes the lead, of course, but most people are just posting once a week, and nobody is using the blog to filter information. I came up with a huge idea for blogging, e-portfolios, knowledge management, etc., last night, but I said to Betsy--"the problem is adoption: it is really, really hard to get people to adopt your technologies." And maybe that isn't a problem--I think people adopt what makes sense to them. Sharing information, managing knowledge, doesn't make sense to everyone.
